Acting
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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A chronicle of five friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.
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The unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology.
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Dan is a childish idiot trapped in an adult’s life, whose world is at near collapse. His girlfriend Naomi is fa...
The lives of cousins Kerry and Kurtan in the rural village of Cotswolds.
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Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made...
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David Walliams has co-created a brand new retelling of a classic fairytale, starring as the Giant in Jack and t...
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An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community...
Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become the focus of...
Fear, guilt and courage - three powerful emotions that flow through the lives of three women. As a teenager, Sa...
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