Ashley Jensen

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Ashley Jensen looks back: ‘Somehow I got to the point where I was sitting at an awards show with Glenn Close winking at me’
The actor on making Billy Connolly laugh, her surreal life in LA, and finally getting lead roles in her 50s

Harriet Gibsone

04, Nov, 2023 @12:00 PM

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Shetland review – who needs Jimmy Perez when you have this new female power duo?
Douglas Henshall has departed, but Ashley Jensen’s arrival proves the hit crime drama doesn’t need a leading man – especially when paired with the brilliant Alison O’Donnell

Jack Seale

01, Nov, 2023 @10:00 PM

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TV tonight: Ashley Jensen takes on her first case in Shetland
She plays Jimmy Perez’s successor in the cosy crime drama. Plus, Emilia Fox spies fishy goings-on at a wedding in Italy. Here’s what to watch this evening

Phil Harrison, Ellen E Jones and Ali Catterall

01, Nov, 2023 @7:51 AM

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Ashley Jensen: 'I never had a plan – I don't even know what I'm having for tea'
She has excelled as sidekicks. Now Ashley Jensen finally has a lead role – as Agatha Raisin, a PR exec who solves rural murders

Emine Saner

31, May, 2016 @8:59 AM

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The Lobster review – surreal satire and black-humour laughs
Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman deliver some fine dystopian lunacy in Yorgos Lanthimos’s English-language debut

Mark Kermode, Observer film critic

18, Oct, 2015 @7:00 AM

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The Legend of Barney Thomson review – falling flat on its farce
Robert Carlyle’s directorial debut fails to hit the funny bone, with only Emma Thompson’s foul-mouthed matriarch supplying the laughs

Jonathan Romney

26, Jul, 2015 @7:00 AM

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How I get ready: Ashley Jensen
‘Is it disgusting to admit that I don’t bother taking off that day’s makeup and starting again any more?’

Ruth Lewy

10, Dec, 2014 @11:07 AM

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My Christmas rituals: 21 celebrities reveal what they do on 25 December
Noel Fielding, Sarah Millican, Jenny Agutter, Tom Kerridge, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and a host of others reveal the strange and quirky family rituals that make the big day special for them

Observer staff

23, Nov, 2014 @6:00 AM

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Rewind TV: The Escape Artist; Ambassadors; A Very English Education – review
David Tennant should have foreseen his wife's fate but Mitchell and Webb manage to avoid the obvious, writes Andrew Anthony

Andrew Anthony

02, Nov, 2013 @6:00 PM

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All Stars – review

High School Musical meets Grange Hill in this British teen drama, writes Philip French

Philip French

04, May, 2013 @11:03 PM

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A Chorus of Disapproval; Mademoiselle Julie – review
It's hard to tell the am from the dram in Trevor Nunn's Ayckbourn. And Mademoiselle Julie needs more than Mademoiselle Binoche, writes Susannah Clapp

Susannah Clapp

29, Sep, 2012 @11:05 PM

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Ashley Jensen: 'I was on that little conveyor belt'
Extras and Ugly Betty star Ashley Jensen tells Killian Fox why she abandoned Hollywood for London's West End

Killian Fox

15, Sep, 2012 @11:05 PM

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