Elaine C. Smith
- 65 years old
- Scottish
- Actor
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Two Doors Down: Doon Mackichan steals the show
Doon Mackichan steals the show in this Burns Night horror.
Sarah Hughes, i Newspaper, 29th January 2018Two Doors Down is fun with a strong cast
Two Doors Down (BBC Two) originally arrived on New Year's Eve 2013 as a one-hour, one-off comedy about a Hogmanay gathering gone wrong. It returned for a third series last night with an episode about another Scottish institution, Burns Night, complete with haggis, tatties and malt whisky, and proceeded to lacerate it for the next half hour.
Chris Harvey, The Telegraph, 29th January 2018Two Doors Down to return with cast changes
Ahead of a third series in 2018, BBC sitcom Two Doors Down is to return for a Christmas special. Sharon Rooney and Harki Bhambra are leaving the show, but Kieran Hodgson joins the cast.
British Comedy Guide, 19th October 2017BBC Two's Two Doors Down has it all. Wit, delight, long awkward silences, burps, bacon-farts. Writers Gregor Sharp and Simon Carlyle have encapsulated a satellite Scottish suburb with joy and finesse: it's crude but it's loving. Most characters are normal. Two are accidental monsters. Cathy (Doon Mackichan) and Christine (Elaine C Smith) dominate every social interaction with that sublime lack of tact that just makes you want to cheer and then put a drunken gun to your head and pull the trigger. Lovely to see Maurice Roëves back.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 18th December 2016Interview: Elaine C. Smith
Elaine C. Smith says sitcom Two Doors Down has saved her love of telly comedy.
Bill Gibb, The Sunday Post, 21st November 2016Two Doors Down gets a second series
BBC Two sitcom Two Doors Down is to return for a second series. The programme has been recommissioned whilst Series 1 is still on air.
British Comedy Guide, 21st April 2016Elaine C Smith steals the show in Two Doors Down
I've written before on these pages about my distaste for Elaine C Smith's TV persona, which is loud and boisterous, but she is stealing the show in this new series.
Julie McDowall, The National (Scotland), 8th April 2016Elaine C Smith interview
As Elaine C Smith returns to the small screen in new BBC sitcom Two Doors Down, she reflects on the highs and lows of her career so far. She tells Janet Christie how being funny can be lonely, and that she keeps her feet on the ground thanks to politics and activism.
Janet Christie, The Scotsman, 26th March 2016Susan Boyle makes a blink-and-you'll-miss it cameo appearance in tonight's episode. She's not singing, unfortunately, but Mary and Ella are in their new guise as girl group The Scrubbers.
The show's actress Elaine C. Smith will, at the star's request, play SuBo in a musical next year about her rags to riches story and she's the perfect choice.
Also this week, we find Rab squeezing into some gold lame hotpants. If anyone out there is planning a Stavros Flatley biopic, I think we've found your star.
Jane Simon, The Mirror, 12th October 2011