Rebecca Front
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Rebecca Front is an English comedian and actress, perhaps best known for her roles in On The Hour, The Day Today, Fist of Fun, Knowing Me, Knowing You...with Alan Partridge, Monkey Dust and Time Gentlemen Please.
She has also made appearances on I'm Alan Partridge, The News Quiz, Have I Got News For You, Big Train, If I Ruled The World, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Monkey Trousers, Nighty Night and Absolutely Fabulous. She has also portrayed 'straight' acting roles in television drama, including You Can Choose Your Friends, The Rotters' Club, Kavanagh Q.C., Lewis, and Jonathan Creek.
Front became involved in comedy while at Oxford University. She toured with the Oxford Theatre Group in 1984, taking part in the revue Stop the Weak. The tour played in Oxford itself; the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill (where it was seen by Mick Jagger, Julie Walters and David Bowie); Edinburgh; Salisbury; and Romsey. The Oxford Revue of the early 1980s was the nursery for a number of comedians who went on to achieve UK success: the Stop the Weak cast included Patrick Marber who was to later work with Rebecca Front in The Day Today, while David Schneider, also in The Day Today, was a member of the 1985 Revue cast. Armando Iannucci, The Day Today's director, was a member of the 1986 Revue.
In 1985, Front teamed up with Sioned Wiliam and Jon Magnusson to take the show The Bobo Girls go BOO to Edinburgh. In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.
Since 2006, she has been contributing columns to The Guardian.
In 2007, she guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Mind's Eye.
[edit] Personal life
Front is married with two children.
