Emma Chambers, Actress From Vicar of Dibley And Notting Hill, Has Died At 53

Her daffy, loopy Alice on the long-running “Vicar of Dibley” came from very hard work. “Chambers would go over every line to make sure she got the rhythm and the tone of the lunatic she was playing, says Paul Mayhew-Archer, co-writer of the Vicar of Dibley. He told BBC Radio 5 live that despite most comedy series having an idiot, ‘she made Alice a completely unique, very special idiot.'”