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Zawe Ashton

Zawe ashton
Zawe Ashton is an actress, playwright and director who started acting at the age of six. Her portrayal of Vod in Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong’s Fresh Meat won her a cult following and the diversity of her work across television, film and stage has attracted numerous accolades. Recent credits include the BBC/Netflix TV series Wanderlust, the Netflix feature film Velvet Buzzsaw and Betrayal at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Her play for all those women who thought they were Mad will be staged for the first time this year. She lives in London.

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  • Jan Noble
  • Caroline Rosie Dent
  • Jamie Lee
  • Joel Golby
  • Martin Rowson
  • Suzi Feay
  • Jessica Martin
  • Julia Bueno
  • Francesca Cassini
  • Daniel Trilling
  • Stephen Morris
  • Wendy Jones
  • Jody Porter
  • Jeremy Reed
  • Ken Worpole
  • Nicola Kent
  • Kirsten Norrie
  • Ben Moor
  • Robert Montgomery
  • Anna Birch
  • Ryann Donnelly
  • Olia Hercules
  • Michael Bravo
  • John Hegley
  • Rachel McCormack
  • Sophie Parkin
  • Henny Beaumont
  • Francesca Segal
  • Dan O’Brien
  • Alan Johnson
  • Sophie Naufal
  • Jean McNeil
  • Alice Lascelles
  • Jo Neary
  • Ashley Hickson-Lovence
  • Ed Miliband
  • Georgina Pringle
  • Natasha Carthew
  • Joe Kerr
  • Serena Constance
  • Travis Elborourgh
  • John Osborne
  • Eloise Millar
  • Anita Sethi
  • Tim Wells
  • Nadia Shireen
  • Fernando Sdrigotti
  • Briony Bax
  • Yasmin Khan
  • Will Wiles
  • Melanie McGrath
  • Mazin Saleem
  • Nikesh Shukla
  • Kit Caless
  • Greta Bellamacina
  • Emanuelle Dirix
  • Karen Liebenguth
  • Andy Miller
  • Neil Denny
  • Debora Robertson
  • Elizabeth Macneal
  • Kiare Ladner
  • Sophie Parkin
  • Dorian Lynsky
  • Sav Akyuz
  • Claire Armitstead
  • Coco Khan
  • Ana Seferović
  • Torcuil Crichton
  • Felicity Cloake
  • Alex Jackson
  • Joel Morris & Jason Hazeley
  • Lee Jackson
  • Zawe Ashton
  • Mariam Khan
  • Louie Stowell
  • Paul Burston
  • Zia Ahmed
  • Diana Henry
  • Gareth E. Rees
  • Anthony Cartwright
  • Niki Segnit
  • Lauren Laverne
  • Magdalene Forés
  • Isobel Galleymore
  • Jenny Linford
  • Valerie Brandes
  • Alex Clark
  • Suzanne Noble
  • Caroline Bobby
  • Kostya Tsolákis
  • Tom Huddleston
  • Sue Quinn
  • Kerry Hudson
  • Geoff Nicholson
  • Sali Hughes
  • Catherine Steadman
  • Joe Haddow
  • Sean Longden
  • Julius Beltrame
  • Dina Nayeri
  • Michael Goldfarb
  • Niall McDevitt
  • Crystal Mahey-Morgan
  • Amir Dotan
  • Richard Boon
  • Johny Pitts
  • Saima Mir
  • Michele Kirsch
  • Alissa Timoshkina
  • Nadia Valman
  • Golnoosh Nour
  • Ken Worpole
  • Rosie Price
  • Thurston Moore
  • Sheila Dillon
  • Lynn Enright
  • Pete Brown
  • Xanthi Barker
  • Bruno Vincent
  • Lara Maiklem
  • Paul Scraton
  • Robyn Travis
  • Natasha Carthew
  • Patrice Lawrence
  • Roger Robinson
  • Shiromi Pinto
  • Nick Thorpe
  • Jude Rogers
  • Nigella Lawson
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