Josie Lawrence

Josie Lawrence

Date of birth: 06-06-1959
Josie Lawrence was born in Old Hill in the West Midlands and decided at the age of five that she wanted to be an actress.

When she was 16 she joined the Barlow Players in Oldbury and from 1978 to 1981 she studied theatre at Dartington College of Arts.

Josie has appeared in numerous theatre productions including playing Moll Flanders at the Lyric. Hammersmith , Lisa Dolittle in Pygmalion at the Nottingham Playhouse and ate in the Taming of the Shrew for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Mrs Anna in the King and I at the London Palladium and Mrs Overall’s evil daughter in the West End version of Acorn Antiques.

Her TV career started in earnest with Whose Line Is It Anyway - and she is still a regular improviser with the Comedy Store Players – which led to her own series, Josie. She has also starred in three series of the award winning Outside Edge, among many other TV roles.

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Paradise welcomes guest stars this Christmas

Including Adrian Edmondson and Josie Lawrence

Adrian Edmondson, Ted Lasso star James Lance and Comedy Story Player Josie Lawrence are to make guest appearances in the festive episodes of hit BBC detective show Death In Paradise and its spin-off Beyond Paradise.

Devon resident Edmondson will be heading to the county’s fictional town of Shipton Abbott for the festive edition of Beyond Paradise, which revolves around a man with amnesia turning up at the police station.

Lance – known as Trent Crimm in Ted Lasso – also guest stars in this episode alongside One Day’s Jonny Weldon and regulars including Kris Marshall, Sally Bretton and  Felicity Montagu.

Meanwhile, Whose Line Is It Anyway? star Lawrence appears in the Christmas episode of Death In Paradise – which spilts the action between the sun-kissed Caribbean and the distinctly less glamorous Swindon.

Don Gilet’s DI Mervin Wilson and his team investigate a body found in a swimming pool and determine the murder weapon – but are left baffled when they find it was locked in a drawer in Swindon when the murder took place.

The guest cast also includes Kate Ashfield – best known as Liz in Shaun Of The Dead – and Doctor Who’s Pearl Mackie.

Broadcast details of the episodes have not yet been announced. 

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Published: 18 Nov 2025

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