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Caroline Quentin

February 2026

  • Two men sitting on a couch drinking cans with their heads titled back

    Men Behaving Badly: The Play review – boorish flatmates prattle like it’s 1999

    Simon Nye brings back the characters from his hit TV series for a misconceived comedy set on millennium eve

October 2025

  • The cast of The Seagull at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh.

    The Seagull review – Caroline Quentin sparkles in sharp, stylish Chekhov

    James Brining’s first production as Lyceum artistic director finds humour and humanity in a finely etched ensemble

September 2023

  • Esh Alladi as Pipli and Giles Cooper as Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations.

    The week in theatre: Great Expectations; Infamous; That Face – review

  • Caroline Quentin (left) and Rose Quentin in Infamous.

    Infamous review – Caroline and Rose Quentin share Emma Hamilton’s scandal

November 2022

  • Caroline Quentin as Kitty Warren in Mrs Warren’s Profession at Theatre Royal, Bath

    Mrs Warren’s Profession review – Caroline Quentin’s bewitching madam

    George Bernard Shaw’s discomfiting play finds a commanding lead in Quentin, playing alongside her real-life daughter Rose

July 2022

  • John Heffernan and Katherine Parkinson in Much Ado About Nothing at the National.

    The week in theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Jack Absolute Flies Again; Crazy for You

  • Carry On, Sheridan … (from left) Caroline Quentin as Mrs Malaprop, Peter Forbes as Sir Anthony Absolute, Laurie Davidson as Jack and Natalie Simpson as Lydia Languish in Jack Absolute Flies Again.

    Jack Absolute Flies Again review – wartime comedy of manners fails to take off

January 2021

  • Caroline Quentin at home in Devon

    Caroline Quentin on phone hacking and therapy: ‘I’m not dragging a carcass of misery’

    The actor discusses how privacy violations affected her whole family – and what it was like to be at the centre of a Strictly storm

April 2020

  • Alan Davies as Jonathan Creek and Caroline Quentin as Maddy Magellan.

    Lockdown culture
    My top tip for coping with coronavirus anxiety? Watch Jonathan Creek

    Alan Davies’s self-assured amateur sleuth and Caroline Quentin’s feminist writer take us back to a happy golden age of bad haircuts, landlines and denim

June 2019

  • Men Behaving Badly

    Jump the shark
    Men Behaving Badly: how Tony’s betrayal killed the flatshare bromance

    While Gary was away, his best mate and his girlfriend became a bit too close. From then on, the show had lost its laddish camaraderie

July 2018

  • ‘Warbles and whoopses’: Me and My Girl at Chichester’s Festival theatre.

    The week in theatre: Me and My Girl; Dusty review – daft, delicious and irresistible

    Timeworn tropes prove irresistible as Chichester does the Lambeth Walk, while Katherine Kingsley’s singing overcomes a galumphing script in Dusty

March 2017