Miranda Hart

Miranda Hart
Hart in 2011
Born	Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke (1972-12-14) 14 December 1972 (age 44) Torquay, Devon, England
Nationality	English
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Education	Downe House University of the West of England
Occupation	Comedian, writer, actress
Years active	2000–present
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Television	Hyperdrive (2006–08) Monday Monday (2009) Not Going Out (2007–09) Miranda (2009–15) Call the Midwife (2012–2015)
Parent(s)	David Hart Dyke CBE LVO Diana Margaret (née Luce)
Relatives	Alice Louisa Hart Dyke (sister) Tom Hart Dyke (paternal first cousin) The Rt Hon The Lord Luce (maternal uncle) Sir William Luce (maternal grandfather) Thomas Dyke (third great grand father) Sir David Hart Dyke (distant cousin) Edward Luce (maternal first cousin) John Luce (great grand father) Sir Richard Harman Luce (great grand uncle) Sir Trevylyan Napier (great grand father) Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet (second great grandfather) Diana, Princess of Wales (fourth cousin, twice removed) George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (ancestor) Lavinia Spencer, Countess Spencer (ancestor)
Website	Official website
Miranda Hart's voice from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 22 December 2013.

Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke (born 14 December 1972), known professionally as Miranda Hart or sometimes referred to as Miranda, is an English actress and comedian. Following drama training at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Hart began writing material for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and making small appearances in various British sitcoms including Hyperdrive and Not Going Out.

Hart reached a wider audience with her self-driven semi-autobiographical BBC sitcom Miranda, which is based on her earlier BBC Radio 2 radio series Miranda Hart's Joke Shop (2008). The television sitcom ran for three series and several Christmas specials from 2009 to 2015 and earned its star 3 Royal Television Society awards, 4 British Comedy Awards and 4 BAFTA nominations. In 2012, she began appearing in the BBC drama Call the Midwife as Camilla "Chummy" Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne. She made her Hollywood debut in Paul Feig's film Spy (2015) as Melissa McCarthy's sidekick Nancy B. Artingstall.

Hart has also written three books, Is It Just Me? (2012), a semi-autobiographical book, The Best of Miranda (2014), a compilation of scripts from the TV series, and Peggy and Me (2016). She embarked on her first stand-up tour, My, What I Call, Live Show, which toured arenas in the UK and Ireland in 2014 and was later released on DVD.

Miranda was born on 14 December 1972 in Torquay, Devon, the daughter of Captain David Hart Dyke RN and Diana Margaret Luce. Her father was commanding officer of HMS Coventry when it was sunk by the Argentinians in the 1982 Falklands conflict, and he was badly burned in trying to escape the stricken warship. She has a younger sister, Alice Louisa Hart Dyke (born 1975).