Known For
Acting
Born
May 15, 1972
Place of Birth
Lewisham, London, England, UK
Credits
29 titles
Ashley McGuire
Biography
Ashley McGuire is a British actress, known for her roles as Big Mandy in the BBC comedy series This Country, Vicky Houghton in the BBC One series This Is Going to Hurt, Shakira in the Channel 4 comedy series Man Down and Bev Slater on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. McGuire attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. McGuire has portrayed various TV roles, including Malory Towers, Coronation Street, Dead Boss, Small Axe, Decline and Fall, It's a Sin and Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After. She has also appeared as Shakira in Man Down, "Big" Mandy Harris in This Country and Bev Slater in EastEnders. Her stage work includes Home by Nadia Fall (2012 and 2013), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (2015) and Top Girls (2019) by Caryl Churchill, Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (2015), and The Suicide by Suhayla El-Bushra (2016), all at the Royal National Theatre. Susannah Clapp, a theatre critic for The Observer, wrote about McGuire's portrayal of Falstaff in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse (2014): "A magnificent Falstaff... she is glorious. A one-person vindication of the all-female enterprise. If it were needed.
Known For
Filmography
Northern Comfort
Esther
The Change
Bernadette
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
Helga
This Is Going to Hurt
Houghton
It's a Sin
Lorraine Fletcher
Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After
Mayoress
Small Axe
Cook
Malory Towers
Matron
The Gentlemen
Maureen
The Hustle
Policewoman
National Theatre Live: Top Girls
Dull Gret
Wanderlust
Janet Malherbe
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Lodge Human Trainer (uncredited)
Decline and Fall
Lady Circumference
This Country
Mandy Harris
Bridget Jones's Baby
Midwife
David Brent: Life on the Road
Mo
Hector
Chiropodist
Counting Backwards
Flo Brown
The Riot Club
Police Officer #2
Man Down
Shakira
National Theatre Live: Home
Sharon
The Job Lot
Dawn Carter
Derek
Shelley
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Death Eater
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Death Eater
Ruby Blue
Debbie
Gypo
Penny
An Impossible Way to Die