Tamsin Greig is an award-winning actor of stage and screen. Theatre work includes: The Deep Blue Sea (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Backstroke (Donmar), Peggy for You (Hampstead Theatre), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Playhouse Theatre), God of Carnage (Gielgud – Olivier Award for Best New Comedy) and Much Ado About Nothing (RSC and Novello – Olivier and Critics Award for Best Actress). Film work includes: Legend Has It, My Happy Ending, Official Secrets, Romeo and Juliet, Days of the Bagnold Summer, Tamara Drewe (Nominated BIFA Best Supporting Actress) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Television work includes: Riot Women, Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, Belgravia, Elementary, Diana and I, Inside No 9, The Guilty, White Heat, Episodes (BAFTA Best Comedy Performance nomination), Friday Night Dinner (BAFTA Best Comedy Performance nomination), Emma, Green Wing (Royal Television Society Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Best Comedy Performance nomination), and Black Books (British Comedy Award nomination for Best Actress). She makes her Royal Opera debut as the Duchesse de Crackentorp.