Miranda Hart
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Miranda Hart (b. 1972 in Torquay, England) is an English actress, writer and stand-up comedian.
Hart starred as "Teal" in two series of the BBC television comedy sci-fi series Hyperdrive, and has also appeared in French & Saunders, Nighty Night, Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley,Lead Balloon, William and Mary, Smack the Pony, for which she wrote and performed in a couple of sketches and a number of video diaries, Not Going Out and Stupid!.
Forgoing the normal stand-up circuit for more character-based comedy, including an appearance in the Edinburgh and touring show The Sitcom Trials, she's written her own theatre material for the Edinburgh Fringe. Her one-woman shows include Miranda Hart – Throbs, It's All About Me and Miranda Hart's House Party. She also performed in Alecky Blythe's 2006 play Cruising at the Bush Theatre in London. Miranda can be seen in a short film by Tim Plester entitled World of Wrestling in which she plays Klondyke Kate a wrestler billed as 'hell in boots'. The film has now been released and will be available on 2Entertain DVD in late 2007 alongside its companion shorts Blakes Junction 7 and Ant Muzak.
She recently appeared in the third series of Comic Relief does Fame Academy. In the first show she was saved by the student vote in favour of Rowland Rivron. Her performance was disliked by the judges as it contained too much comedy and not enough singing. The next show was to be her final appearance. She sang Olivia Newton-John's "Let's Get Physical". She was again placed in the bottom three but the student vote saved Linda Robson and the judges vote saved Mel Giedroyc instead.
Filming begins in March 2008 on her biggest project to date, her own sitcom for BBC One entitled Miranda Hart's Joke Shop.
