Ashley Jensen Biography
Ashley Jensen is a Scottish actor and storyteller most recognized for her roles as Maggie Jacobs in Extras, for which she received an Emmy nomination, in Ugly Betty, in Agatha Raisin, and DI Ruth Calder in Shetland.
How old is Ashley Jensen? – Age
She is 54 years old as of 11 August 2023. She was born in 1969 in Annan, United Kingdom.
Who is Ashley Jensen’s Father? – Does Ashley Jensen have a sister?
She was born to Ivar Jensen, and Margaret Jensen. Two years after his tabloid interview with the Mirror, Ivar spoke with the Daily Record in 2008. He stated Ashley has a sibling who she has never met. He claims she is almost the same age as Ashley and looks similar to the Ugly Betty star.
Ivar has four children with three women. Ashley with his first wife Margaret, two children Vicky and Jamie with his second wife Jacqueline Preston, and a fourth child resulted from his affair while married to Ashley’s mother.
Ashley Jensen Husband
Jensen has a son from her marriage to actor Terence Beesley, whom she met in 1999 while working on a theater production of King Lear. Her husband died in November 2017, and an inquest determined that he committed suicide. Jensen and actor Kenny Doughty married in 2023.
Ashley Jensen Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Ashley Jensen Career
Jensen prepared in Show at Sovereign Margaret College in Edinburgh. Her most memorable huge TV job was as Clare Donnelly, little girl of Glasgow criminal Jo Donnelly in the 1993 BBC show Down Among the Large Young men. In 1994, she played unusual secretary Rosie McConnichy in the last series of BBC parody May to December, as a trade for the personality of secretary Hilary, and Heather in Roughnecks, a BBC TV series about specialists on a North Ocean oil stage. Jensen played a little part in a Dangerfield episode “Contact” as the mother of a little kid with meningitis. She then showed up as Fiona Morris in EastEnders. She additionally showed up in the 2003 BBC show 2,000 Sections of land of Sky.
Jensen co-featured close by Ricky Gervais in the BBC Two/HBO TV program Additional items as the socially uncouth Maggie Jacobs. For her work on the primary series, she got best TV satire entertainer and rookie grants at the 2005 English Parody Grants. In 2006, Jensen got two English Satire Grants and a BAFTA designation for her job in Additional items. Her job in the 2007 Christmas Unique procured her an Emmy Grant selection. In January 2006 she featured in the fleeting show series Last minute on ITV. Soon thereafter she played Steve Coogan’s representative in A Tall tale. In 2007, she gave the portrayal to the film Taking Freedoms.
In September 2006, Jensen’s most memorable significant job on American TV came when she played the job of normal person Christina McKinney on the ABC series Terrible Betty. Her personality was initially an American, yet when she met the show’s makers they loved Jensen’s intonation and changed the ethnicity of the person, keeping McKinney Scottish. Creation of Monstrous Betty moved to New York from Los Angeles in mid-2008, causing a contention for Jensen, who couldn’t migrate from Los Angeles and left the show in 2009 close to the furthest limit of the third season however made a return visitor appearance in 2010 during the fourth season.
In January 2009, Jensen featured in No Holds Troubadour, a BBC Scotland one-off unique satire displayed on Consumes Night as a component of a line-up of exceptional programming to stamp the 250th birthday celebration of Robert Consumes. She is the storyteller of Channel 4’s Humiliating Sicknesses and Humiliating Bodies. She additionally portrayed a publicizing effort for Bank of Scotland and Persil cleanser adverts for both TV and radio. From September 2009 to May 2010, she showed up in the sitcom Coincidentally Deliberately as Olivia. Jensen featured in the 2009 BBC parody Nativity! as Jennifer Legend, a Hollywood maker’s secretary and the old flame of Paul Irritates, played by Martin Freeman.
On 21 December 2010, she featured in the oddball/pilot BBC satire show Unintentional Rancher, playing a London leader who purchases a forsaken ranch with her philandering sweetheart’s charge card. In 2011, she voiced Nanette the frog in the enlivened creation Gnomeo and Juliet. She featured in the ITV show The Retribution in April of that year. In October 2012, she showed up as a visitor on the BBC cookery program Saturday Kitchen.
In 2014, she played the eponymous lead character in the TV film variation of the M. C. Beaton novel Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death for Sky1. She additionally featured in the eight-section series that previously broadcasted on Sky1 on 7 June 2016. From 2015 to 2019, Jensen acted in Calamity, a parody series for Channel 4, and with Susan Calman in Calman’s BBC Radio 4 satire series Sisters.
In 2017, she featured in a six-section television series for BBC television, Love, Falsehoods and Records, portraying the coarse life and weaved storylines working in Leeds Library Office. In Walk 2019, Jensen rejoined with Gervais in the Netflix dark satire series After Life, a job she went on for every one of the three series. In April 2019 she played Debbie Dorell in the second series of BBC television show Trust Me. At the point when a harmed warrior finds patients in his emergency clinic ward kicking the bucket, he endeavors to research the dubious passings. Likewise in 2019, she played the voice of Jacqueline in Woman and the Vagrant.
In November 2022 she was reported as the new lead in the BBC show Shetland. Jensen likewise showed up in the 2022 Christmas film Christmas On Mistletoe Ranch for Netflix. Chipping away at this venture checked denoted her get-together with Nativity! chief, Debbie Isitt.
Ashley Jensen Movies
♦ 2005 – A Cock and Bull Story
♦ 2009 – Nativity!
♦ 2010 – Sunshine
♦ 2011 – Gnomeo & Juliet
♦ 2012 – The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
♦ 2013 – All Stars
♦ 2014 – Small Time
♦ 2015 – The Lobster
♦ 2018 – Sherlock Gnomes
♦ 2019 – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
♦ 2019 – Lady and the Tramp
♦ 2022 – Christmas On Mistletoe Farm
Ashley Jensen TV Shows
♦ 2005–2007 – Extras
♦ 2006 – Eleventh Hour
♦ 2006–2010 – Ugly Betty
♦ 2007–2015 – Embarrassing Bodies
♦ 2009 – No Holds Bard
♦ 2009–2010 – Accidentally on Purpose
♦ 2010 – Accidental Farmer
♦ 2011 – The Reckoning
♦ 2013 – All Stars-
♦ 2014–present – Agatha Raisin
♦ 2015–2019 – Catastrophe
♦ 2017 – Love, Lies & Records
♦ 2018 – DuckTales
♦ 2019–2022 – After Life
♦ 2019 – Trust Me
♦ 2021 – Inside The Balmoral: Scotland’s Finest Hotel
♦ 2022 – The Airport: Back in the Skies
♦ 2023–present – Shetland