Celebrity Biographies
Emma Chambers
Those who saw “Notting Hill” (1999) will remember the hilarious sequence in which the bookseller played by Hugh Grant took a movie superstar (Julia Roberts) to dinner at his friends’ house to celebrate his eccentric sister’s birthday. The British actress who played the latter, Emma Chambers, died at the age of 53 on February 21, 2018, although it has only been specified that she was “of natural causes”. “She was hilarious and a very warm person, and of course a brilliant actress. Very sad news,” Grant stated.
Born on March 11, 1964, in Doncaster, Yorkshire, Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers concentrated on theater for a decade, before making her audiovisual debut with a supporting role in the 1988 series The Rainbow . After several similar productions , achieved enormous popularity in the United Kingdom, since 1994, as a secondary of The Vicar of Vipley , a soap opera about an Anglican nun who became the head of the parish of a small town.
A roommate for many years of Ian McKellen, whom she considered “a father figure”, she only separated from him when she married Ian M. Dunn, also an actor. Emma Chambers made her film debut with the aforementioned Notting Hill , where her character, Honey, the hippy with dubious taste in dressing who found love, upon discovering her brother’s roommate, barely had any footage, but like others in the film she left I pose on the viewer. Despite the success that the tape achieved, she only appeared on the big screen again in the comedy The Clandestine Marriage (1999), where she shared the poster with the veteran Joan Collins .