Ashley McGuire

Known for ActingBorn 1972-05-15 (age 54)Lewisham, London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

It's a Sin

This Country

The Gentlemen

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

This Is Going to Hurt

Malory Towers

Derek

The Job Lot

Hector

The Change

Red Riding Hood: After Ever After

Small Axe

Man Down

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Bridget Jones's Baby

The Hustle

David Brent: Life on the Road

Wanderlust

The Riot Club

Decline and Fall

Northern Comfort

Gypo

Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After

Ruby Blue

National Theatre Live: Top Girls

Counting Backwards

National Theatre Live: Home