Jessica Hynes (née Stevenson; born 15 November 1972) is an English actress and writer. She was known professionally as Jessica Stevenson until 2007. She is one of the creators, writers and stars of the British sitcom Spaced.
She lives in Folkestone with her husband Adam Hynes, whom she met when she was 18, and married in 2002. They have three children.
Hynes was born in Lewisham, London, on 15 November 1972, but grew up in Brighton, where she att...
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Jessica Hynes (née Stevenson; born 15 November 1972) is an English actress and writer. She was known professionally as Jessica Stevenson until 2007. She is one of the creators, writers and stars of the British sitcom Spaced.
She lives in Folkestone with her husband Adam Hynes, whom she met when she was 18, and married in 2002. They have three children.
Hynes was born in Lewisham, London, on 15 November 1972, but grew up in Brighton, where she attended Dorothy Stringer High School. As a teenager Hynes was part of the National Youth Theatre company, and she made her stage début with the company in Lionel Bart's Blitz in 1990. In 1992–3 she played a season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. In the same year she appeared in Peter Greenaway's 1993 film The Baby of Mâcon, playing the first midwife. For the first fourteen years of her career, she used her maiden name as a stage name. Early in her career she teamed up with future Spaced co-star Katy Carmichael in a comedy double-act called The...
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