Actors and Actresses

Remembering Emma Chambers

Carmen Croghan

26 Feb 2018 — 2 min read

Many of you have probably already heard the heart-breaking news that Emma Chambers, comedic actress and star of The Vicar of Dibley, passed away last week at the age of 53. Reports state that she died unexpectedly of natural causes. She is survived by her husband of 26 years, actor Ian Dunn.

Born March 11, 1964, Emma began acting in college productions while attending her Winchester prep school and went on to train at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Chambers made her television debut inThe Rainbow, a 1988 BBC adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel of the same name. Other period roles followed namely as Charity Pecksniff in the 1994 mini-series of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit and in the 1999 comedy film The Clandestine Marriage.

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