What other TV shows and films has Catherine Tate been in? She popped up again in the following year's Christmas and New Year's special, and she'll be coming back once more opposite a returning David Tennant in the 2023 60th anniversary specials, too. Tate was such a hit as Donna in 2006 Christmas special 'The Runaway Bride' that she returned for the whole of series 4 in 2008. People weren't sure how someone with a reputation with such broad comedy would fit into a sometimes-funny but often scary and serious family drama. When the show returned in 2005, the casting of ex-teen-popstar Billie Piper as Rose Tyler certainly raised eyebrows, but maybe not as much as Catherine Tate as Chiswick-born temp worker Donna Noble. The Runaway Bride: Highlights | Doctor Whoĭoctor Who has always cast an interesting range of companions, as well as Doctors. Who are Catherine Tate's most famous comedy characters? The first series of The Catherine Tate Show aired in 2004, and pretty much overnight everyone knew who Catherine Tate was. In the middle, though, I did films and TV, too, so I've been very lucky to be able to mix it all up.' 'My journey through stand-up was quite quick, though, 'cause then I started doing sketch humour, and then I got my own TV show. 'The closest thing I saw to stage work was stand-up, so I took the stand-up route and went to the Edinburgh Festival and did things like that. 'I'd always wanted to do comedy, but it was the '90s and they were closing a lot of the repertory theatres,' she said in 2012 about her shift in direction. Like every British actor since forever, she had parts in The Bill and London Burning.

Derek at the men's health clinic - The Catherine Tate Show - BBC comedyĬatherine Tate started her career in dramatic theatre, with parts in productions of Blood Wedding, All My Sons, The Way of the World and The Prince's Play, as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Servant of Two Masters.

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