Harriet Thorpe
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Harriet Thorpe is an English actress who has played a number of roles, some particularly memorable with most of them being of the ridiculous.
She came to prominence in the early nineteen-nineties playing the infamous Carole in The Brittas Empire, the receptionist who permanently kept her children with her, in drawers under her desk and would sometimes be seen feeding them or washing their clothes. She was also prone to depression and fits of extreme emotion.
She also played Fleur in Absolutely Fabulous, an eccentric and somewhat odd work-colleague who spoke in a very precise fashion. She has also appeared in ITV's Crossroads and Midsomer Murders among other TV parts. She has done numerous stagework, often playing extreme roles.
Thorpe has also appeared in a number of films mainly in minor roles, most famously in the Calendar Girls as the rather patronising and superior head of the Women's Institute.
She is five foot and four inches and has very dark hair and brown eyes. She lost weight during the Brittas Empire but regained it doing Absolutely Fabulous which fitted the part she was playing.
Her sister, Mathilda Thorpe is also an actress.
