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The Q&A Ashley Jensen: ‘My greatest achievement? That my son is kind and loves David Bowie’

The actor on Animal Farm and why she decided not to become a vet

Published: 28 Oct 2017

Ashley Jensen on bagging her own show: 'A career plan? I don't even know what I'm having for my tea'

She has excelled as sidekicks. Now Ashley Jensen finally has a lead role – as Agatha Raisin, a PR exec who solves rural murders

Published: 31 May 2016

4 out of 5 stars.

The Lobster review – surreal satire and black-humour laughs
4 out of 5 stars.

Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman deliver some fine dystopian lunacy in Yorgos Lanthimos’s English-language debut

Published: 18 Oct 2015

How I get ready How I get ready: Ashley Jensen

‘Is it disgusting to admit that I don’t bother taking off that day’s makeup and starting again any more?’

Published: 10 Dec 2014

My Christmas rituals: 21 celebrities reveal what they do on 25 December

Noel Fielding, Sarah Millican, Jenny Agutter, Tom Kerridge, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and a host of others reveal the strange and quirky family rituals that make the big day special for them

Published: 23 Nov 2014

Observer TV reviews Rewind TV: The Escape Artist; Ambassadors; A Very English Education – review

David Tennant should have foreseen his wife's fate but Mitchell and Webb manage to avoid the obvious, writes Andrew Anthony

Published: 2 Nov 2013

All Stars – review

High School Musical meets Grange Hill in this British teen drama, writes Philip French

Published: 4 May 2013

A Chorus of Disapproval; Mademoiselle Julie – review

It's hard to tell the am from the dram in Trevor Nunn's Ayckbourn. And Mademoiselle Julie needs more than Mademoiselle Binoche, writes Susannah Clapp

Published: 29 Sep 2012
Ashley Jensen: 'I was on that little conveyor belt'

Extras and Ugly Betty star Ashley Jensen tells Killian Fox why she abandoned Hollywood for London's West End

Published: 15 Sep 2012

Rob Brydon to make West End debut in Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval

Trevor Nunn will direct the actor and comedian alongside Ashley Jensen and Nigel Harman in a revival of Alan Ayckbourn's play at the Harold Pinter Theatre

Published: 29 Jun 2012

'Maybe I'll do it with orangutans next time': the cast of Gnomeo and Juliet - video

Emily Blunt, Ashley Jensen and Kelly Asbury on how to re-interpret Shakespearean tragedy with garden gnomes, bossy frogs and a plastic flamingo

3:43

Published: 10 Feb 2011

Accidental Farmer harvests 4.5m viewers

Comedy drama pilot starring Ashley Jensen wins slot, beating ITV1 docusoap The Savoy. By John Plunkett

Published: 8:23 AM
TV review TV review: Accidental Farmer and Oz and Hugh Raise the Bar

Despite the comic timing of Ashley Jensen, Accidental Farmer was sub-Cold Comfort, says Lucy Mangan

Published: 3:00 AM

TV trailer park Extras Christmas special trailer

Trailer for a seasonal serving of the award-winning comedy starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Ashley Jensen

2:33

Published: 5 Dec 2007

Film blog LA diary 40: On the picket line with an Extra

Ashley Jensen, of Extras and Ugly Betty fame, has been telling me all about the writer's strike. Meanwhile, I'm about to experience my first Thanksgiving

Published: 20 Nov 2007

Hollywood calling

As a downtrodden actress in Extras - a kind of female Stan Laurel to Ricky Gervais's Hardy - Ashley Jensen epitomised gormlessness. But it was a canny role to win, and now US sitcom superstardom beckons. By Phil Hogan.

Published: 9 Sep 2006

Ashley Jensen lands ABC drama role

Extras star Ashley Jensen has landed a role in a new US drama, Ugly Betty, from Lost and Desperate Housewives broadcaster ABC. By Leigh Holmwood.

Published: 15 May 2006
Rose d'Or: winners

BEST PERFORMERS

Female comedy performance: Jo Joyner - Swinging (Money Kingdom for Channel Five, UK)
Male comedy performance: Chris Lilley - The Nominees (Princess Pictures, Australia)
Gameshow host: Stephen Fry - QI (Talkback Thames for BBC, UK)
Sitcom actor: Bastian Pastewka - Pastewka (Brainpool TV, Germany)
Sitcom actress: Ashley Jensen - Extras (BBC, UK)
Soap actor: Jack Wagner - The Bold and the Beautiful (Bell-Phillp Television Productions Inc, US)
Soap actress: Alexendra Neldel - Verliebt in Berlin (Grundy UFA for Sat 1, Germany)

Published: 2 May 2006

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