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• Daughter of Jasper Carrott, a popular British comedian.
• One of her first jobs: packaging nuts and seeds at a health-food store.
• Appeared on the popular BBC radio drama The Archers for 10 years.  
• Received a kidney transplant from her mother in 1997 after being diagnosed with kidney failure.
• Moved to L.A. in 2005, after the original BBC version of The Office went off the air.
• Appeared nude in a 2007 PETA advertisement against the bearskin hats worn by British royal guards.
• Volunteers with Camp Cocker, which rescues cocker spaniels from animal shelters with high kill rates in the L.A. area.