Emma Chambers - wikipedia Emma Chambers For the Hollyoaks character, see Emma Chambers ( Hollyoaks ). Emma Chambers Emma G.M. Chambers ( 1964 - 03 - 11 ) 11 March 1964 ( age 53 ) Doncaster, south Yorkshire, England Other names Nicola Chambers Occupation Actress Years active 1988 -- 2007 Known for Role of Alice Tinker Notable work Alice Tinker in The Vicar of Dibley Television The Vicar of Dibley ( 1994 -- 2007 ) Spouse ( s ) Ian Dunn ( m. 1991 ) Emma G.M. Chambers ( born 11 March 1964 ) is an English actress. She is best known for playing the role of Alice Tinker in the BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley and Honey Thacker in the film Notting Hill. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Filmography 4 References 5 External links Early life Chambers was born in Doncaster, where she went to school at St. Mary 's. Her secondary education was at St Swithun 's School, Winchester, Hampshire. She then trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in the 1980s, where she was a classmate of actor Ross Kemp. Her sister is Sarah Doukas of Storm Model Management. Career After taking some smaller parts on television productions such as The Bill, in November 1994 Chambers played the role of Charity Pecksniff in the TV serialisation of the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit. From 1994 to 2007 she played the role of Alice Tinker in the BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley. Chambers appeared in all 20 episodes and four Comic Relief specials until 2007. She did not appear in the two most recent Comic Relief specials, in 2013 and 2015. In 1998, Chambers won the British Comedy Award for Best Actress for her performance. In 1998, Chambers took the role of Helen Yardley in the TV series How Do You Want Me ?, and 1999, she appeared in the film Notting Hill, as Honey, the little sister of Hugh Grant 's character. In 2000, she was cast as Martha Thompson in Take a Girl Like You, a made for TV drama based on the Kingsley Amis novel and a remake of the 1970 film. Chambers worked as a voice performer in the animated made - for - TV film The Wind in the Willows in 1995. In 2003 she provided the voice of Spotty for two episodes in the TV series Little Robots. Her episodes were called `` Spotty Rules '' and `` Spotty 's Clean Machine ''. She was in theatre for about 10 years before her major break in television. She has appeared in a number of stage productions including Tartuffe and Invisible Friends. In 2002 she toured with the Michael Frayn play, Benefactors, where she starred opposite Neil Pearson. As of 2002, she lived with her husband, fellow actor Ian M. Dunn, in Lymington, Hampshire. Filmography Year Title Type Role Notes The Rainbow TV Margaret 2 Episodes, Episodes Titled : `` The Widening Circle '' and `` The Darkness of Paradise '' The Bill TV Marie Summers 2 Episodes, Episodes Titled : `` A Case to Answer '' and `` The Night Watch '' Martin Chuzzlewit TV Charity Pecksniff Regular Role, 6 Episodes 1994 -- 2007 The Vicar of Dibley TV Alice Tinker Series Regular, 24 Episodes Drop the Dead Donkey TV Carol 1 Episode, Episode Titled : `` What Are Friends For ? '' Pond Life TV Belle Series regular 1998 -- 1999 How Do You Want Me ? TV Helen Yardley Regular Role, 11 Episodes 1999 Notting Hill Film Honey Thacker Film Role 1999 Bravo Two Zero Film Dinger 's Wife Film Role 2000 Take a Girl Like You TV Martha Thompson TV Series 2003 Little Robots TV Spotty TV Series, 2 Episodes `` Spotty Rules '' and `` Spotty 's Clean Machine '' References ^ Jump up to : BFI biodata Jump up ^ `` Emma Chambers : From dappy Alice to parasitic Sheila '' The Independent ( 9 June 2002 ). Archived 19 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine. ^ Jump up to : Victoria Lambert `` It was either the actress or the cat '', The Daily Telegraph, 22 July 2002 External links Emma Chambers on IMDb VIAF : 61321901 LCCN : no2007053521 ISNI : 0000 0000 4708 9883 GND : 1126607460 SUDOC : 066991234 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emma_Chambers&oldid=814934166 '' Categories : English film actresses English television actresses English voice actresses English soap opera actresses People educated at St Swithun 's School, Winchester Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art People from Doncaster People from Lymington 1964 births Living people People educated at Hill House School, Doncaster Actresses from Yorkshire Actresses from Hampshire 20th - century English actresses 21st - century English actresses Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links EngvarB from October 2017 Use dmy dates from October 2017 Articles with hCards Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2002 All articles containing potentially dated statements Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch 한국어 Italiano עברית Norsk Polski Suomi Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 11 December 2017, at 19 : 33. 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Question: who plays alice in the vicar of dibley
Answer: Emma G. M. Chambers