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 perhaps best known as one of the creators and writers of the British sitcom Spaced, in which she played Daisy. In 2009 she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.
She lives in London with her husband Adam Hynes, whom she met when she was 18, and m...
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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 perhaps best known as one of the creators and writers of the British sitcom Spaced, in which she played Daisy. In 2009 she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.
She lives in London 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 made her professional début 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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