Biography

May 16, 1964 · Stoke Newington, London, England, UK

Rebecca Louise Front

5′ 4″ (1.63 m)

Often appears in the comedies of Armando Iannucci.

While filming the first series of Time Gentlemen Please (2000), Rebecca became pregnant, which meant Al Murray had to write it into the script that her character Vicki became pregnant after a drunken one night stand. She gave birth to daughter Tilly not long after filming stopped.

She worked on Noel's House Party as part of the Gotcha team.

Son Oliver born in 1999 and daughter Tilly born in 2002

Her great-grandfather was in a music hall double act in the 1920s.

One brother, the writer Jeremy Front.

Maybe there's something in my brain that says: 'If you get rid of those fears, anything could happen.' Perhaps I cling to them like a lucky shirt, because they give me somewhere to deposit all my other fears. So, for example, I can appear on a panel show such as Have I Got News for You (1990) which might terrify other people, but doesn't worry me at all. Just don't ask me to go up in the lift to the 20th floor for the after-show drinks. That I really couldn't do.

I'm an addictive parent and adore being with my children, so for me having concentrated time together on holiday is heaven. They're now 14 and 17, but so far, touch wood, they still come away with us and I'm going to eke it out for as long as I can. One thing we've got up our sleeves to prolong it is to say they can bring friends - we'll just book somewhere a bit bigger!

It doesn't matter how long you've been acting for, it's always scary saying 'no' to something as you're obviously saying no to money and then you're usually consigning yourself to a few weeks or a few months of uncertainty. But I still think you have to do it, unless you really can't be choosy because you've got financial problems. You have to, if you possibly can, think 'that's just not the kind of thing I want to be seen in'. So, generally, I am quite picky about stuff.

You can make dark, sinister, weird jokes without being deeply offensive.

We never went abroad until I was 12, as we didn't have the money. But I remember crossing the border into Scotland when I was nine. We'd left England - the height of sophistication!