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Tamsin Morwenna Banks is a British actress, comedian, writer, and producer. She appeared in the Channel 4 comedy sketch show Absolutely, and wrote, produced, and appeared in the British ensemble film The Announcement. She voices Mummy Pig, Madame Gazelle and Dr Hamster in the children's series Peppa Pig. She adapted Nick Hornby's novel Funny Girl for Sky Max (renamed Funny Woman for TV ) and is a writer on Slow Horses for Apple TV+.
Her voice roles include Claire Feeble in Stressed Eric; Cleo Lion in Between the Lions; (Nick Jr UK) Mummy Pig and various other characters in Peppa Pig; the ship's computer in the BBC TV series Hyperdrive; Ping Pong in Rupert Bear, Follow the Magic... (Channel 5); and Guinevere in King Arthur's Disasters (CITV). Banks won Best Voice Performance at the 2014 British Animation Awards for providing the voice for Queen Marigold in Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom and a voice in Humf, and she has voiced the character Red in Dragon Quest VIII.
Banks wrote, produced, and appeared in the British ensemble film The Announcement in 2001. She also appeared in season one, episode 13 of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a "rulebearer". In 2004, she played the central role of Tess in the series Catterick, with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. She also appeared in their shows The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer and Monkey Trousers.
Banks had also voiced Sophie in Crapston Villas, an adult animated sitcom soap opera, which was produced in the 1990s. Both Banks and the television programme’s creator, Sarah Ann Kennedy, would later go on to voice characters in Peppa Pig.
On 19 October 2013, BBC Radio 4 broadcast Banks' play Goodbye about a woman diagnosed with breast cancer. The play is an account of the path from the first diagnosis to the death of Lizzie, played by Olivia Colman; it deals with her relationships with her family and best friend Jen, played by Natascha McElhone, and their reactions to Jen's illness and death. The cast included Darren Boyd, John Simm, Alison Steadman, Banks' Peppa Pig co-star Harley Bird, Banks' son Ezra, and singing by Banks' daughter Dolly. It was produced by Heather Larmour.Radio Times, 19–25 October 2013, p. 135 Banks received the 2015 Tinniswood Award for the play. She subsequently wrote the play's 2015 film adaptation, titled Miss You Already.
From 2012 to 2018, she played Venus Traduces (a parody of Violet Trefusis) and other roles in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Gloomsbury.
Banks' later voice work includes the roles of Betty and Sonia in the 2008 film version of Tales of the Riverbank; and a translator at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in The Eichmann Show.
In 2016, Banks co-wrote and starred in the comedy series Damned. She co-starred in and wrote (with Rebecca Front) Shush!, a sitcom set in a library broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2017. In late 2019, she provided the voice of Mrs Brown in The Adventures of Paddington which began airing on Nick Jr. in early 2020.
She adapted Nick Hornby novel Funny Girl for a 2023 series which airs on Sky as Funny Woman, and is a writer on Slow Horses for Apple TV+, which premiered in 2022.
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