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Margaret Cabourn-Smith

Margaret Cabourn-Smith

Acting

Biography

Margaret Alice Cabourn-Smith (born 1975) is an English comedy actress and podcaster with appearances on Catastrophe, The IT Crowd, Psychoville, Peep Show, Fresh Meat, Motherland, Daddy Issues and Cheaters. Her TV work includes playing regular characters on Miranda, Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, Lab Rats, In and Out of The Kitchen and Father Figure. She played Crimson in Disney Channel's The Evermoor Chronicles. Her radio work includes many of The Penny Dreadfuls' plays, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme. The Now Show, Sarah Millican's Support Group, The Maltby Collection, Bigipedia, Newsjack, Dilemma, Another Case of Milton Jones, Life in London, The Headset Set and 1966 and All That. She was also one of the team captains on the comedy podcast Do The Right Thing. Stage work includes Di & Viv & Rose at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, Spike (Watermill Theatre and national tour), Angus, Thongs & Even More Snogging (West Yorkshire Playhouse 2012) and Gutted (Assembly Rooms, 2010) She writes for online magazine Standard Issue. She is married to comedy writer and actor Dan Tetsell.

Known For

Peep Show
8.0

Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.

Peep Show

2003
Miranda
7.6

Socially inept Miranda always gets into awkward situations; working in her joke shop with best friend Stevie, being hounded by her pushy mother, and especially when she's around her crush Gary.

Miranda

2009
Motherland
7.2

Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting.

Motherland

2017
Fresh Meat
7.2

Six students — Vod Nordstrom, Oregon Shawcross, Josie Jones, Kingsley Owen, JP Pembersley, and Howard McGregor — are freshmen (save for second year Howard) at Manchester Medlock University. Having applied late to accommodation, they live in a shared, off-campus house in Whalley Range rather than the halls of residence.

Fresh Meat

2011
The Hustle
6.2

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

The Hustle

2019
Psychoville
6.9

Five strangers receive blackmail notes from an anonymous source, leading them on a dark and surreal journey as their lives unravel, featuring bizarre characters like a man-child, a one-handed clown, and a blind millionaire.

Psychoville

2009
Cheaters
5.2

A chance meeting after a cancelled flight leads to an unlikely night of drunken airport-hotel sex between two strangers in their late twenties, Fola and Josh. Both are already in relationships and unknowingly soon to be neighbours.

Cheaters

2022
The Evermoor Chronicles
6.5

A young girl and her blended family move to the small cottage town of Evermoor. All is well until sinister things start to happen, magic tapestries, an enchanted typewriter. Only a few of the strange things found in the town of Evermoor.

The Evermoor Chronicles

2014
Daddy Issues
6.8

After discovering she’s pregnant, hedonistic Gemma flatshares with her hapless father. Together, they have to navigate new friendships, new relationships and face up to parenthood.

Daddy Issues

2024
Katy Brand's Big Ass Show
7.0

Katy Brand's Big Ass Show is a British comedy series that aired on ITV2, starring comedian Katy Brand. The show features sketch comedy based on real-life situations, stereotypes, and celebrity parodies, including Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Lady Gaga, Angelina Jolie, Adele, and Kate Winslet. The second series aired in 2008, featuring additional sketches with Princess Beatrice of York, Kate Moss, Leona Lewis, Jesus, The Queen, and Billie Piper’s Secret Diary of a Call Girl. The show was also broadcast internationally in Canada on CBC’s Bold channel and in Portugal on RTP2. A Christmas special, Katy Brand’s Big Ass Songs of 2008, aired in December 2008. The third and final series ran in 2009, after which Katy Brand concluded the show with a live tour in April 2010.

Katy Brand's Big Ass Show

2007
Lab Rats
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Lab Rats is a 2008 BBC 2 situation comedy set in a university science laboratory starring Chris Addison, who co-wrote the series with Carl Cooper. The series was produced by regular collaborator Simon Nicholls and directed by Adam Tandy. Its executive producer was Armando Iannucci with whom Addison worked in The Thick of It. Iannucci stated that the programme would be a traditional-style sitcom recorded in front of a live audience. He hinted that it will be a "very cartoony" show featuring "lots of giant snails". A pilot was announced as part of a series called "Behind Closed Doors" in Autumn 2006, but was never aired. A series of six episodes was broadcast in 2008, although the show was not recommissioned for further series.

Lab Rats

2008
Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
6.3

Miranda Hart and the cast of her sitcom come together to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary with a music-filled, star-studded spectacular from the London Palladium.

Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration

2020
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A Very British Cult tells the story of David, a cult leader with a problem. He knows Jesus is returning but he forgot to confirm the date. His disciples are leaving in droves for another cult in Dorset with better facilities, his wife is thinking of leaving him and his remaining followers are more interested in Chocolate Hob-Nobs than the Almighty. But God is about to send David a message, if only he can figure out what it means?

A Very British Cult

2009
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5.0

A dinner party kicks off with the last guest to arrive, the oddly named Asparagus Tips. Upon introducing herself, we soon gather that her name comes from her asparagus hands. After the starter doesn’t go according to plan, she steps up to the plate, literally, and offers her tips for the party. A delicious delight that everyone wants more of, mostly at the disadvantage of poor Asparagus Tips.

Asparagus Tips

2019