Tara Fitzgerald (born September 18, 1967) is a British actress most widely known for her film roles in Sirens (opposite Hugh Grant) and the 1996 film Brassed Off .
She has had numerous roles on British television, including Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Camomile Lawn , and The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew .
Her stage roles have included Blanche Dubois in an Bristol Old Vic 2000 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, and Ophelia (opposite Ralph Fiennes) in a 1995 production of Hamlet; for the latter she won a New York Drama Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress Award.
She was paired with Grant again in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, and also had major roles in New World Disorder and the film adaptation of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle .
Her appearance in Sirens prompted a listing on the first FHM list of 100 Sexiest Women in the World.
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