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Collie to her friends.
Sarah on her birth certificate.
Sophie fromPeep Showto you and me.
Sweary, smiley sandwich woman to Golden Globe Awards Ceremony audiences around the world.
Olivia Colmans name is currently everywhere, being spelled slightly incorrectly.
Before playing abused wife Hannah in Paddy Considines directorial debut feature, Colman was known as a comic actor.
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Because like all those things, when shes around, it feels like things are going to be alright.
We adored Ellies instinctive empathy, her good sense, her spine of steel and her orange cagoule.
When her heart was broken by an awful betrayal, we even loved it for breaking too.
As Marks on-off love interest Sophie, Colman was first Marks idol and then his torment.
Sally Owen Twenty Twelve
The quiet but unignorable PA Sally Owen gave mockumentaryTwenty Twelveits romantic heart.
Sally loved unhappily married boss Ian Fletcher, Head of Deliverance for the 2012 Olympics, from afar.
(Well, not that afar, just from the desk outside his office.)
After Colman left the series, Sallys irrepressible efficiency and bittersweet infatuation was much missed.
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Hotel Manager The Lobster
The Favouritewas Colmans second role for director Yorgos Lanthimos.
Her first came in 2015 absurdist comedyThe Lobster, a deadpan satire on the social requirement of coupling up.
Colman played the hotel manager, a humorless schoolmarm-punch in running a kind of Butlins of the damned.
She kept order, ensured the rules were abided by, and doled out punishment when they werent.
Even stony-faced and unreadable, she brought her comedic talents to bear.
(Colmans character in the John Le Carre novel was a man.
Colman was not.)
Queen Anne The Favourite
This ones a triumph.
As lonely Queen Anne, beset by ill-health and grieving great losses, Colman is both hilarious and tragic.
But you cant, because its Olivia Colman, and weloveher.
And also, obviously, not forgetting this:
