Ashley McGuire
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
Credits
- 2023 · Northern Comfort as Esther
- 2023 · The Change as Bernadette
- 2022 · Red Riding Hood: After Ever After as Helga
- 2022 · This Is Going to Hurt as Houghton
- 2021 · It's a Sin as Lorraine Fletcher
- 2020 · Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After as Mayoress
- 2020 · Small Axe as Cook
- 2020 · Malory Towers as Matron
- 2020 · The Gentlemen as Maureen
- 2019 · The Hustle as Policewoman
- 2019 · National Theatre Live: Top Girls as Dull Gret
- 2018 · Solo: A Star Wars Story as Lodge Human Trainer (uncredited)
- 2017 · This Country as Mandy Harris
- 2016 · Bridget Jones's Baby as Midwife
- 2016 · David Brent: Life on the Road as Mo
- 2015 · Hector as Chiropodist
- 2015 · Counting Backwards as Flo Brown
- 2014 · The Riot Club as Police Officer #2
- 2013 · Man Down as Shakira
- 2013 · National Theatre Archive: Home as Sharon
- 2013 · Derek as Shelley
- 2011 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Death Eater
- 2010 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Death Eater
- 2007 · Ruby Blue as Debbie
- 2005 · Gypo as Penny