The actor best known as Dibley’s Alice Tinker will be remembered for her full-beam warmthNo one misunderstood a joke like Alice Tinker. In the Vicar of Dibley, Emma Chambers, whose death was announced on Saturday, provided a far-from-straight woman to Dawn French’s appealing rural cleric Geraldine Granger. Chambers so often played the character who looked on with sympathy and concern when others were dishing out scorn. It is often talked about as an admired quality in a comic actor, but warmth isn’t something lifted off a page. As a fan of Chambers’ immensely likeable work, I wish we could have had just one more misunderstood joke.

Source: The Guardian February 25, 2018 13:20 UTC