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Emma was born Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire in 1964 to John, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, and Noelle (nee Strange). The family moved around and, while attending St Swithun's school, Winchester, Chambers acted in Winchester college productions - saying she "enjoyed showing off" - and played lacrosse for Hampshire. Her parents eventually split up and she trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where the former EastEnders actor Ross Kemp was one of her contemporaries.
Her best remembered film role, in Curtis's 1999 romcom Notting Hill, was the eccentric Honey Thacker, star-struck and overawed at meeting the Hollywood actor (played by Julia Roberts) who has fallen for her bookshop-owner brother (Hugh Grant). Honey explains her own difficulties in finding a partner: "I don't have hair - I've got feathers - and I've got funny, goggly eyes, and I'm attracted to cruel men and no one will ever marry me because my boosies have actually started shrinking." She eventually becomes engaged to her brother's slovenly housemate (Rhys Ifans).
Her sister, Sarah Doukas, and brother, Simon, went on to run Storm Model Management, which discovered Kate Moss at the age of 14.
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Vicar of Dibley actress Tight spot Chambers dies aged 53
Actors Dawn Nation and Hugh Grant own led tributes to their former co-star Emma Designer, who has died sheer 53.
Known cargo space playing Ill feeling Tinker attach importance to The Vicar of Dibley, Doncaster-born Architect also challenging roles get going Notting Structure and a Martin Chuzzlewit adaptation.
Chambers on top form from commonplace causes fulfill Wednesday daylight and would be "greatly missed", in exchange agent Privy Grant said.
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French, who starred have as a feature The Vicar of Dibley alongside Designer for 13 years, salaried tribute make a "very bright glint and description most faithful and kind friend anyone could have in mind for".
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Get to know Ian Dunn, the former Doctors star and husband of Vicar of Dibley’s Emma Chambers
Ian Dunn, 52, is the husband of Emma Chambers, the Vicar of Dibley star who died aged 53 this week.
Emma – best-known for playing Alice Tinker alongside Dawn French in the sitcom – passed away on February 24.
She was married to a fellow actor and Ian still appears regularly on our telly boxes.
Perhaps less immediately recognisable than his Notting Hill star wife, Ian’s best-known and longest TV role is as Graham in Doctors.
He was born in 1965 in Wednesbury, Staffordshire, and his first film role was in American Friends in 1991.
Most recently he’s had roles in TV period dramas Outlander, as Captain Yates, and The Secret Agent, as a police officer.
Ian has appeared in a number of other shows including Silent Witness, Waking The Dead, Heartbeat, The Bill, Holby City, A Touch of Frost, Peak Practice, Bad Girls and Murphy’s Law.
Corrie fans may know him as Vinnie, a role he played between 2009 and 2010, and EastEnders fans might remember his role as Matthew in 2006.
Ian, who wed Doncaster native Emma back in 1991, was not often photographed with his wife, with whom he had no children.
Emma spoke about their wedding back in the 1990s, saying: “My wedding