Ashley Jensen Biography

Ashley Jensen is a Scottish actress and narrator who was nominated for an Emmy for her role on the television series Extras, in which she appeared from 2005–2007.

She was also a cast member of the ABC series Ugly Betty and the short-lived CBS sitcom Accidentally on Purpose. Jensen is currently the star of the comedy-drama detective television series Agatha Raisin.

Actress Ashley Jensen

Jensen’s first big television role was as Clare Donnelly, daughter of Glasgow criminal Jo-Jo Donnelly (played by Billy Connolly) in the 1993 BBC drama Down Among the Big Boys. In 1994, she played the role of eccentric secretary Rosie McConnichy in the final series of BBC comedy May to December, as a replacement for the character of secretary Hilary (Rebecca Lacey), and Heather in Roughnecks, a BBC television series about workers on a North Sea Oil platform. Jensen had a small role in a Dangerfield episode “Contact” as the mother of a young girl with meningitis. She then appeared as Fiona Morris in EastEnders. She also appeared in the 2003 BBC drama Two Thousand Acres of Sky.

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Jensen co-starred along with Ricky Gervais in the BBC Two/HBO television programme Extras as the socially inept Maggie Jacobs. For her performance on the first series, she received best television comedy actress and newcomer awards at the 2005 British Comedy Awards. In 2006, Jensen received two British Comedy Awards and a BAFTA nomination for her role in Extras. Her role in the 2007 Christmas Special earned her an Emmy Award nomination. In January 2006 she starred in the short-lived drama series Eleventh Hour on ITV. Later that year she portrayed Steve Coogan’s agent in A Cock and Bull Story. In 2007, she provided the narration for the film Taking Liberties.

Ashley Jensen Ugly Betty

In September 2006, Jensen’s first major role on American television was when she took the role of regular character Christina McKinney on the ABC series Ugly Betty. Her role was originally an American, but when she met with the show’s producers they liked Jensen’s accent and changed the nationality of the character, keeping McKinney Scottish. Production of Ugly Betty moved to New York from Los Angeles in mid-2008, causing a conflict for Jensen, who became a recurring member of the cast.

In January 2009, Jensen starred in No Holds Bard, a BBC Scotland one-off special comedy shown on Burns Night as part of a line-up of special programming to mark the 250th Birthday of Robert Burns. She is the narrator of Channel 4’s Embarrassing Illnesses and Embarrassing Bodies. She also narrated an advertising campaign for Bank of Scotland and Persil detergent adverts for both television and radio. From September 2009 to May 2010, she also performed in the sitcom Accidentally on Purpose as Olivia. Jensen starred in the 2009 BBC comedy Nativity as Jennifer Lore, a Hollywood producer’s secretary and the love interest of Paul Maddens, played by Martin Freeman.

On 21 December 2010, she starred in the one-off/pilot BBC comedy-drama Accidental Farmer, playing the role of a London executive who buys a derelict farm with her philandering boyfriend’s credit card. In 2011, she voiced Nanette the frog in the animated production Gnomeo and Juliet. She starred in the ITV drama The Reckoning in April of that year. In October 2012, she appeared as a guest on the BBC cookery programme Saturday Kitchen.

Ashley Jensen Agatha Raisin

The actor Ashley is currently the star of a British comedy-drama detective television series Agatha Raisin. On December 26, 2014, the comedy-drama series was broadcast as a pilot titled Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death with an eight-part series that first aired on Sky 1 on June 7, 2016. On January 15, 2018, Acorn TV ordered a second series. The third series was commissioned on February 27, 2019.

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Ashley Jensen Age

Jensen was born on August 11, 1969, in Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. She is 50 years old as of August 2019.

Ashley Jensen Family

Jensen was born and raised by her parents Ivar Jensen and Margaret Jensen in Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

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Jensen was married to Terence Beesley in 2007. Terence Beesley died on November 30, 2017, in the Camerton United Kingdom. He took his own life and his lifeless body was found in their car. They met in 1999 at a London Theatre production of King Lear. They were married for only 10 years.

Ashley Jensen Movies And Tv Shows

Ashley Jensen Movies

Tickets for the Zoo
Topsy-Turvy
A Cock and Bull Story
Nativity!
Sunshine
How to Train Your Dragon
Gnomeo & Juliet
Hysteria
Arthur Christmas
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Small Time
The Lobster
The Legend of Barney Thomson
Sherlock Gnomes
Lady and the Tramp

Ashley Jensen TV Shows | TV Series

City Lights
Rab C. Nesbitt
Screen One
May to December
The Tales of Para Handy
Takin’ Over the Asylum
Roughnecks
The Bill
The Baldy Man
Waiting
Temp
Capital Lives
The Big Picnic
Bad Boys
Casualty
Dangerfield
City Central
Mortimer’s Law
EastEnders
Rebus
Clocking Off
Outside the Rules
Breeze Block
Coming Up
Silent Witness
Sweet Medicine
The Office
Meet the Magoons
Taggart
Extras
Eleventh Hour
Ugly Betty
Embarrassing Bodies
No Holds Bard
Accidentally on Purpose
Accidental Farmer
The Reckoning
All Stars
Love and Marriage
The Escape Artist
Agatha Raisin
Catastrophe
Love, Lies & Records
Ducktales (2017)
After Life

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