Emma Kennedy

Infobox actor


caption = Emma Kennedy
birthname = Elizabeth Emma Williams
birthdate = birth date and age|1967|5|28
birthplace = Corby, Northamptonshire

Emma Kennedy (born May 28 1967 in Corby, Northamptonshire) is an English television presenter, actress and writer.

Her real name is Elizabeth Emma Williams. She was educated at Hitchin Girls' School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. At Oxford in 1987, she worked with (among others) Richard Herring and Stewart Lee in comedy troupes the Seven Raymonds and The Oxford Revue. She used to present "The Real Holiday Show" on Channel 4. She has since made appearances in TV comedies "Goodness Gracious Me", "This Morning With Richard Not Judy" (again with Lee and Herring), "Jonathan Creek" alongside Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin, "People Like Us" (with Chris Langham) and hit BBC comedy "The Smoking Room", along with appearing in several of "The Mark Steel Lectures", as well as in several plays and radio shows. She was also a movie reviewer on Five's "Terry and Gaby Show". In addition to this, she has made several appearances on "Big Brother's Little Brother".

Kennedy has written for radio, television and the theatre. She provided voices for "The Comic Side of 7 Days" and is a regular on the BBC Radio 2 comedy "That Was Then, This Is Now" with Richard Herring. She appeared in the movie "Notes on a Scandal" and also appears in the Five series "Suburban Shootout".

Her first book "How To Bring Up Your Parents" was published in July 2007. It is loosely based on her weblog. Her second book, "The Tent, The Bucket and Me" is based on her childhood camping experiences and is due to be published in April 2009 by Ebury Press.

External links

* [http://www.emmakennedy.net Official website]
*imdb name|id=0448021|name=Emma Kennedy

Bibliography

* cite book
date = October 4, 2007
title = The Tent, The Bucket and Me
last = Kennedy
first = Emma
publisher = Ebury Press
id = ISBN 9780091926786