Biography
Tameka Empson is an English actress and comedian. Born in London on 15 April 1977, she trained at the Anna Scher Drama School in Islington.
She made her film debut as Leah in the 1996 coming-of-age drama Beautiful Thing. Empson gained wider recognition as one of the leads in the BBC Three hidden-camera sketch show 3 Non-Blondes (2003–2004). Since 2009 she has played Kim Fox (later Fox-Hubbard) in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role for which she has won multiple Inside Soap Awards for funniest performance.
Her other screen credits include Notes on a Scandal (2006) and StreetDance 3D (2010). On stage she appeared in the original West End cast of the Madness musical Our House and has performed regularly in pantomime at the Hackney Empire.
