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Caroline Quentin née Jones,
(born June 11, 1961, in
Reigate, Surrey) is a British
actress.
 Career
Quentin
has had an extensive
television and acting
career and has become a
very well-known actress.
Her early work included
appearing on the stage
when she was in the chorus
of the original cast of
Les Misérables. Quentin
became well-known for her
television appearances in
Men Behaving Badly,
playing Dorothy, and
playing Maddy Magellan in
Jonathan Creek for many
years.
In July 1996, Quentin released
a single, a cover of The
Exciters hit Tell Him, with her
Men Behaving Badly co-star
Leslie Ash under the name of
'Quentin and Ash'. The single
reached number 25 in the UK
Charts and disappeared 3 weeks
later.
Quentin has also appeared in
the 2001 telemovie Hot Money,
which was based on the true
story of the theft of hundreds
of thousands of pounds from the
Bank of England. In 1998 came
the first sitcom to be built
around Quentin herself, Kiss Me
Kate. At the British Comedy
Awards in 2004, Quentin won the
"Best Comedy Actress" award for
her performance in Von Trapped
and in the same year, she
started the major role of
Maggie Mee in the popular drama
Life Begins, which returned for
a third series in 2006.
ITV has also commissioned a
third series of Blue Murder, in
which Quentin plays the main
character, DCI Janine Lewis.
The pilot aired in the UK on
18th May, 2003.
She has also appeared in
various series such as Whose
Line Is It Anyway?, Room 101,
Have I Got News For You and the
BBC Radio 4 improvisational
comedy series The Masterson
Inheritance.
Personal
life
Quentin married comedian Paul
Merton in 1990, but they
separated in 1997 and were
divorced in 1998. She married
Sam Farmer on September 8, 2006
in Tiverton, Devon. They met in
1999 on the set of Jonathan
Creek, where Farmer was a
runner. They have two children,
Emily (born 1999) and William
(born 2003). Caroline has a
home in Walberswick in
Suffolk.
Selected
filmography
Men
Behaving Badly (1992 -
1998)
Jonathan Creek (1997 -
2000)
Hot Money (2001)
Von Trapped (2004)
Footprints in the Snow
(2005)
Life Begins (2004 - 2006)
Blue Murder (2003 - 2006)
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www.geneticmatrix.com.
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