Emma Kennedy
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TV's Emma Kennedy during the final performance of As It Occurs To Me in 2011
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Elizabeth Emma Williams 28 May 1967 Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress, writer, television presenter |
| Spouse(s) | Georgie Gibbon (m. 2015) |
Emma Kennedy (born Elizabeth Emma Williams: 28 May 1967 in Corby, Northamptonshire) is an English actress, writer and television presenter.
The daughter of teachers, she was educated at Hitchin Girls' School, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. At Oxford in 1987, she worked with (among others) Richard Herring and Stewart Lee in comedy troupes the Seven Raymonds and The Oxford Revue. After graduating she trained as a solicitor, and practised as a city solicitor for three years until 1995. Kennedy has said: "I was rubbish at it. People used to come in wanting to sue the pants off of someone and I'd stare at them and say 'Let it go', which isn't what you should be doing if you're a litigator."
Kennedy first met close friend Mel Giedroyc, who was appearing with the Cambridge Footlights, at the Edinburgh Festival in 1988. Later she became a script editor for Giedroyc's double act with Sue Perkins, and for the Mel and Sue series Late Lunch, Kennedy worked as a writer. Kennedy presented the last series of The Real Holiday Show on Channel 4 in 2000.
She has since made appearances in TV comedies Goodness Gracious Me, This Morning With Richard Not Judy (with Lee and Herring), Jonathan Creek alongside Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin, People Like Us (with Chris Langham) and hit BBC comedy The Smoking Room, along with appearing in several of The Mark Steel Lectures, as well as in several plays and radio shows. She was also a movie reviewer on Five's Terry and Gaby Show. In addition to this, she has made several appearances on Big Brother's Little Brother.
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