Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Birthday: Born in 1975-07-25 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Margaret Alice Cabourn-Smith (born 1975) is an English comedy actress and podcaster with appearances on Catastrophe, The IT Crowd, Psychoville, Peep Show, Fresh Meat, Motherland, Daddy Issues and Cheaters. Her TV work includes playing regular characters on Miranda, Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, Lab Rats, In and Out of The Kitchen and Father Figure. She played Crimson in Disney Channel's The Evermoor Chronicles. Her radio work includes many of The Penny Dreadfuls' plays, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme. The Now Show, Sarah Millican's Support Group, The Maltby Collection, Bigipedia, Newsjack, Dilemma, Another Case of Milton Jones, Life in London, The Headset Set and 1966 and All That. She was also one of the team captains on the comedy podcast Do The Right Thing. Stage work includes Di & Viv & Rose at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, Spike (Watermill Theatre and national tour), Angus, Thongs & Even More Snogging (West Yorkshire Playhouse 2012) and Gutted (Assembly Rooms, 2010) She writes for online magazine Standard Issue. She is married to comedy writer and actor Dan Tetsell.
TV Credits
Miranda
Character: Alison
Socially inept Miranda always gets into awkward situations; working in her joke shop with best friend Stevie, being hounded by her pushy mother, and especially when she's around her crush Gary....
The IT Crowd
Character: Anonymous' Mum
Two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all....
Lab Rats
Character: Secretary
Lab Rats is a 2008 BBC 2 situation comedy set in a university science laboratory starring Chris Addison, who co-wrote the series with Carl Cooper. The series was produced by regular collaborator Simon Nicholls and directed by Adam Tandy. Its executive producer was Armando Iannucci with whom Addison worked in The Thick of It. Iannucci stated that the programme would be a traditional-style sitcom recorded in front of a live audience. He hinted that it will be a "very cartoony" show featuring "lot...
The Evermoor Chronicles
Character: Housekeeper Crimson Carmichael
A young girl and her blended family move to the small cottage town of Evermoor. All is well until sinister things start to happen, magic tapestries, an enchanted typewriter. Only a few of the strange things found in the town of Evermoor....
Motherland
Character: Mrs. Banbury Hughes
Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting....
Motherland
Character: Janet
Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting....
Peep Show
Character: Speed Dating Coordinator
Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician....
Daddy Issues
Character: Doctor Rush
After discovering she’s pregnant, hedonistic Gemma flatshares with her hapless father. Together, they have to navigate new friendships, new relationships and face up to parenthood....
Cheaters
Character: Monica
A chance meeting after a cancelled flight leads to an unlikely night of drunken airport-hotel sex between two strangers in their late twenties, Fola and Josh. Both are already in relationships and unknowingly soon to be neighbours....
Movie Credits
Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
Character: Self
Miranda Hart and the cast of her sitcom come together to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary with a music-filled, star-studded spectacular from the London Palladium....
The Hustle
Character: Police Sergeant
Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."...