Arabella Weir

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Born

Friday 6th December 1957 (67 years-old)

Nationality

British

Arabella Weir was born in San Francisco, California, and attended nursery in Washington D.C., where her father, former British ambassador Sir Michael Weir, was posted as a member of the British diplomatic corps. Later she would be educated at the Sacre Coeur Convent in Cairo, Egypt, and the French Lycée in London, England. During her childhood Weir spent many a summer with family friends and relatives in Scotland, and describes herself as 'culturally Scottish'.

Aged 9 she moved to Bahrain with her father, returning to London after passing the eleven-plus when her father was posted to New York. A pupil at Camden School for Girls, she went on to study drama at Middlesex Polytechnic. Weir's rather fractious relationship with her mother, and this rollercoaster-ride of a childhood that spanned the globe, became the subject of her debut one-woman show, Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big In This? The show's title is a pun on Weir's bestselling novel (see below), and she took the show to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival.

Weir was a writer for BBC Two sketch show The Fast Show[/c] from 1994 to 2001, and in 2013 became a main cast member on the BBC Two and BBC One sitcom Two Doors Down[/c], about Latimer Crescent residents Eric and Beth Baird, plus their neighbours and immediate family.

In 1998 Weir published the international bestselling book Does My Bum Look Big In This?, a catchphrase of her character "Insecure Woman" in The Fast Show.

In 2001, Weir took part in the Weakest Link Comedians Special.

She joined the cast of Calendar Girls at London's Noël Coward Theatre in November 2009, playing the role of "Chris Harper" until the play's run in the West End finished in January 2010.

From 2013 to 2016 Weir starred as Jenny in Drifters, an E4 sitcom about three female friends in their 20s. She also featured in the first two series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Believe It!, in which Richard Wilson, of BBC One sitcom One Foot In The Grave fame, narrates his semi-fictional autobiography. The title is a pun on Wilson's catchphrase in that earlier BBC sitcom: "I Don't Believe It!"

Weir is a close friend of actor David Tennant (indeed, Tennant lodged with her for five years in London), and they share an interest in Doctor Who. Weir voiced the female incarnation of the Doctor in the Doctor Who Unbound Big Finish episode Exile, and she also featured in the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas special entitled The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe.

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