Montserrat Lombard

Montserrat Lombard is an English actress known for playing Sharon Shaz Granger in the BBC drama series Ashes to Ashes Lombard was born on 1 August 1977 in Putney London and is of Spanish and Italian descent She starred in The Late Show alongside James Corden in 1997 before moving onto television work and filmography Her television credits include regular roles in Love Soup 20052008 and Romans Empire 2007 She is probably best known for her role as WPC Shaz Granger in the BBC drama Ashes to Ashes 20082010 Other credits include guest roles in Doctors Twisted Tales Nathan Barley Murder in Suburbia Witches as a school girl named Myra who among other things bakes brownies and attempts to seduce her music teacher dressed in lacy underwear a lead role in St Trinians 2 The Legend of Frittons Gold Midsomer Murders A Picture of Innocence and a part in the featurelength ITV drama Tunnel Of Love Lombard has also played Lavya in the episodes Hello Queppu and Artefact of the BBC Two scifi comedy series Hyperdrive and Stevie in the fourth episode of the BBC Two comedy Saxondale She appeared as Lady Anne in the BBC Radio 4 comedy The Castle and has appeared in several stage productions including People Who Dont Do Dinner Parties Lombard played June in the short film Vanilla Song created by National Film and Television School students as well as Ian Sciacalugas short film noir Imbroglio She played The Muse in William Magers 2008 short film Stiletto funded by Apex Arts and the Hitchcock Production Fund She had a small role in Terry Gilliams The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus In 2009 she worked on the film St Trinians II The Legend of Frittons Gold playing Zoe the Emo She played Maria in the premiere episode of the 2011 TV series The Borgias She voiced the role of Mirania in the 201112 game The Last Story for Nintendo Wii She appeared in ITVs Marple A Caribbean Mystery in 2013 as Esther Walters From September 2013 to January 2014 she starred alongside Lee Evans and Sheila Hancock in Barking in Essex at the Wyndhams Theatre In May 2016 she appeared on BBC Two in Ben Eltons comedy Upstart Crow as Shakespeares dark lady muse Emelia series 1 episode 4 and in October 2018 reprised the role in series 3 episode 6 In March 2017 she appeared in Private View the series 3 finale of Inside No 9 on BBC Two as a sarcastic waitress Bea Also in 2016 she appeared as different characters in Neil Gaimans Likely Stories a series of short films for Sky Arts directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard and scored by Jarvis Cocker In 2019 she voices Mia on Thomas and Friends in USUK versions In 2023 she played Gwen Tyler in the BBC series Beyond Paradise as well as filming for her upcoming film Tyger