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Tamzin Malleson
Penny
It’s been a busy year for Tamzin Malleson who plays the delectable
but cold-hearted Penny. Since the last series of Teachers, Tamzin
has appeared in The Vice and Murder City for ITV1 and the BBC3 drama
Bodies, which is about to be shown on BBC2.
In the new series of Teachers, Penny wastes no time in attempting
to get close to one of her new colleagues – a little too close
for his liking. And despite humiliation and disappointment so soon
after arriving at the new Wattkins Comprehensive, Penny quickly
regains her composure and sets her sights on another new face –
but is he really old enough to be a teacher? “Penny gets herself
into some ridiculous situations this series, but she’s so
self-centred that she doesn’t really notice that she’s
setting herself up to be humiliated”, says Tamzin Malleson.
“Penny is basically obsessed with the way she looks, deeply
vain and ultimately not very secure. I actually partly based her
on an English teacher I had at school who caused a lot of trouble.”
This fourth series sees the introduction of several new characters
– Ewan (Lee Williams) the new Head of English, Ben (Mathew
Horne) an atheist RE teacher and Damien (Daon Broni) a cynical Food
Technology teacher. And they’re not about to welcome Penny,
Lindsay and the rest of the Summerdown misfits, with open arms.
“The boys aren’t exactly pleased to see us and while
Ewan seems a little bit more amenable to conversation, Ben and Damien
are united in their approach – don’t make eye contact
and say nothing. Obviously, they can’t keep it up for very
long and after some intense hounding, eventually crack.”
What Penny lacks in teaching ability, she more than makes up for
by her shameless flirting. “Penny continues to make really
poor choices when it comes to men, and this series she excels herself.
Put it this way, despite being really smug about her new boyfriend,
she soon discovers that the relationship probably isn’t the
best career move she’s ever made.”
Apart from Bodies, The Vice and Murder City, Tamzin has also appeared
in Always and Everyone, Dangerfield, Poirot – Evil under the
Sun; A Touch of Frost and Kavanagh QC.
On stage she has appeared in Nude with a Violin at the Manchester
Royal Exchange; Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Of Mice and Men both
at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
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