Ashley McGuire
ActingBiography
Ashley McGuire is a British actress, known for her roles as Big Mandy in the BBC comedy series This Country, Vicky Houghton in the BBC One series This Is Going to Hurt, Shakira in the Channel 4 comedy series Man Down and Bev Slater on the BBC soap opera EastEnders. McGuire attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. McGuire has portrayed various TV roles, including Malory Towers, Coronation Street, Dead Boss, Small Axe, Decline and Fall, It's a Sin and Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After. She has also appeared as Shakira in Man Down, "Big" Mandy Harris in This Country and Bev Slater in EastEnders. Her stage work includes Home by Nadia Fall (2012 and 2013), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (2015) and Top Girls (2019) by Caryl Churchill, Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (2015), and The Suicide by Suhayla El-Bushra (2016), all at the Royal National Theatre. Susannah Clapp, a theatre critic for The Observer, wrote about McGuire's portrayal of Falstaff in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse (2014): "A magnificent Falstaff... she is glorious. A one-person vindication of the all-female enterprise. If it were needed.
Movies
(17 total)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Death Eater
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Death Eater
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Lodge Human Trainer (uncredited)
The Gentlemen
as Maureen
Bridget Jones's Baby
as Midwife
The Hustle
as Policewoman
The Riot Club
as Police Officer #2
Northern Comfort
as Esther
Hector
as Chiropodist
Gypo
as Penny
Ruby Blue
as Debbie
National Theatre Live: Top Girls
as Dull Gret
National Theatre Archive: Home
as Sharon
Counting Backwards
as Flo Brown
TV Shows
(9 total)
Derek
as Shelley
It's a Sin
as Lorraine Fletcher
This Is Going to Hurt
as Houghton
Small Axe
as Cook
This Country
as Mandy Harris
Man Down
as Shakira
The Change
as Bernadette
Decline and Fall
as Lady Circumference
Malory Towers
as Matron