Ashley McGuire
Ashley McGuire is a British actress, known for her roles as Big Mandy in the BBC comedy series "This Country" and Bev Slater in the BBC One soap opera "EastEnders". Life and career. 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."