Ashley McGuire
Known For
Acting
Born
1972-05-15 in Lewisham, London, England, UK
Biography
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.
Most Known For
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
Malory Towers
as Matron
It's a Sin
as Lorraine Fletcher
This Is Going to Hurt
as Houghton
Derek
as Shelley
Small Axe
as Cook
This Country
as Mandy Harris
The Change
as Bernadette
The Hustle
as Policewoman
Bridget Jones's Baby
as Midwife
Man Down
as Shakira
The Riot Club
as Police Officer #2
David Brent: Life on the Road
as Mo
National Theatre Live: Top Girls
as Dull Gret
Decline and Fall
as Lady Circumference
Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After
as Mayoress
Northern Comfort
as Esther