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Ashley McGuire
Lewisham, London, England, UK
Ashley McGuire is a British actress, known for her roles as Big Mandy in the BBC comedy series This Country, Vicky Houghton in the BBC One series This Is Going to Hurt, Shakira in…
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Ashley McGuire is a British actress, known for her roles as Big Mandy in the BBC comedy series This Country, Vicky Houghton in the BBC One series This Is Going to Hurt, Shakira in the Channel 4 comedy series Man Down and Bev Slater on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. McGuire attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. McGuire has portrayed various TV roles, including Malory Towers, Coronation Street, Dead Boss, Small Axe, Decline and Fall, It's a Sin and Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After. She has also appeared as Shakira in Man Down, "Big" Mandy Harris in This Country and Bev Slater in EastEnders. Her stage work includes Home by Nadia Fall (2012 and 2013), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (2015) and Top Girls (2019) by Caryl Churchill, Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (2015), and The Suicide by Suhayla El-Bushra (2016), all at the Royal National Theatre. Susannah Clapp, a theatre critic for The Observer, wrote about McGuire's portrayal of Falstaff in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse (2014): "A magnificent Falstaff... she is glorious. A one-person vindication of the all-female enterprise. If it were needed.
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2023
Northern Comfort
Movie Esther
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2023
The Change
TV show Bernadette
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2022
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
Movie Helga
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2022
This Is Going to Hurt
TV show Houghton
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2021
It's a Sin
TV show Lorraine Fletcher
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2020
Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After
Movie Mayoress
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2020
Small Axe
TV show Cook
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2020
Malory Towers
TV show Matron
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2019
The Gentlemen
Movie Maureen
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2019
The Hustle
Movie Policewoman
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2019
National Theatre Live: Top Girls
Movie Dull Gret
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2018
Wanderlust
TV show Janet Malherbe
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2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Movie Lodge Human Trainer (uncredited)
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2017
Decline and Fall
TV show Lady Circumference
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2017
This Country
TV show Mandy Harris
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2016
Bridget Jones's Baby
Movie Midwife
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2016
David Brent: Life on the Road
Movie Mo
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2015
Hector
Movie Chiropodist
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2015
Counting Backwards
Movie Flo Brown
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2014
The Riot Club
Movie Police Officer #2
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2013
Man Down
TV show Shakira
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2013
National Theatre Live: Home
Movie Sharon
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2013
The Job Lot
TV show Dawn Carter
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2013
Derek
TV show Shelley
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2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Movie Death Eater
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2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Movie Death Eater
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2007
Ruby Blue
Movie Debbie
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2005
Gypo
Movie Penny
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An Impossible Way to Die
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