Emma Chambers, best known for her roles as Honey in Notting Hill and Alice in The Vicar Of Dibley, has died. She was 53.
Born Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers in 1964 in Doncaster, she got her first acting training at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in the 1980s, emerging from her studies, she worked in theatre for a few years, earning praise for her performances. After a decade, she began to find small roles on television, in shows such as The Rainbow and that British acting stalwart, The Bill. Bigger roles came on the likes of Martin Chuzzlewit, but her real breakout turn was as Alice Tinker, later Alice Horton alongside Dawn French on Dibley. Relishing the role of the naive, often goofy Alice, she won a Best Comedy Award for the part, which ran between 1994 and 2007, including Comic Relief specials. Following Chambers' death, her co-star paid tribute.
The role led series creator Richard Curtis to cast Chambers in one of her few film parts, that of the younger sister to Hugh Grant's Will Thacker.
Chambers is survived by her actor husband Ian M. Dunn.
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