{"id":404165,"date":"2018-02-24T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=404165"},"modified":"2018-02-24T17:04:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T17:04:37","slug":"actress-emma-chambers-dies-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=404165","title":{"rendered":"Actress Emma Chambers dies at 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">British actress Emma Chambers has died aged 53, her agency has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Known for playing Alice Tinker in the BBC&#8217;s The Vicar of Dibley, the Doncaster-born star also had roles in Notting Hill and the TV adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit.<\/p>\n<p>Her agency said Chambers, who died from natural causes on Wednesday evening, would be &#8220;greatly missed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It said: &#8220;Emma created a wealth of characters and an immense body of work. She brought laughter and joy to many&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Chambers is survived by her husband, fellow actor Ian Dunn.<\/p>\n<p>She played the character of Alice Tinker, a village church verger, in The Vicar of Dibley between 1994 and 2007, alongside Dawn French in the title role.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, she won the British Comedy Award for best TV actress for her performance. The following year she appeared as Honey in Notting Hill, the younger sister of Hugh Grant&#8217;s character, William Thacker.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/0AC4\/production\/_100165720_207c0b9a-f7bf-4502-b5d7-679ad4280ddb.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Chambers and Dawn French\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">Chambers was known for playing Alice Tinker in The Vicar of Dibley, alongside Dawn French<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/16F0E\/production\/_100166939_7f13b31f-a965-4325-91af-b969b7bd75c1.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Chambers as Alice Tinker\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">She was named best TV comedy actress in 1998 for her portrayal of Alice<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/147FE\/production\/_100166938_5e885c08-2be7-4d78-a43c-19311168ff72.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Chambers as Charity Pecksniff in the BBC adaptation of the 1994 novel Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">She appeared as Charity Pecksniff (right) in a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens&#8217; Martin Chuzzlewit<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>-Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British actress Emma Chambers has died aged 53, her agency has confirmed. Known for playing Alice Tinker in the BBC&#8217;s The Vicar of Dibley, the Doncaster-born star also had roles in Notting Hill and the TV adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit. Her agency said Chambers, who died from natural causes on Wednesday evening, would be &#8220;greatly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":404179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[4026,17352],"class_list":["post-404165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-death","tag-emma-chambers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/404179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}