Ashley McGuire

Ashley McGuire is a British actress known for her roles as Big Mandy in the BBC comedy series This Country Vicky Houghton in the BBC One series This Is Going to Hurt Shakira in the Channel 4 comedy series Man Down and Bev Slater on the BBC soap opera EastEnders McGuire attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama McGuire has portrayed various TV roles including Malory Towers Coronation Street Dead Boss Small Axe Decline and Fall Its a Sin and Jack and the Beanstalk After Ever After She has also appeared as Shakira in Man Down Big Mandy Harris in This Country and Bev Slater in EastEnders Her stage work includes Home by Nadia Fall 2012 and 2013 Light Shining in Buckinghamshire 2015 and Top Girls 2019 by Caryl Churchill Our Countrys Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker 2015 and The Suicide by Suhayla ElBushra 2016 all at the Royal National Theatre Susannah Clapp a theatre critic for The Observer wrote about McGuires portrayal of Falstaff in Phyllida Lloyds allfemale Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse 2014 A magnificent Falstaff she is glorious A oneperson vindication of the allfemale enterprise If it were needed