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The Guardian // World // Europe

Harriet Webb looks back: ‘Being told by a drama teacher that I needed to lose 10 stone was the making of me’

Sunday 26th October 2025, 2:00PM

The actor on her wonderful auntie Pat, being inspired by Michaela Coel and Danny Dyer, and her ‘terrible’ arm tattooBorn in Lancashire in 1986, actor Harriet Webb’s breakthrough role was as Theodora in Michaela Coel’s Bafta-winning 2020 series I May Destroy You. She has appeared in The Split, White Gold, Plebs and Wreck, and stars in Channel 4’s Big Boys as Shannon and as Kirsty in Sky comedy Mr Bigstuff.This image sums up how I spent most of my days as a four-year-old – splashing around in the River Bela in Cumbria, wearing a dress, looking for fish, and collecting stones that I would take home and paint. Continue reading...

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