Tamzin Maria Outhwaite (born 5 November 1970) is an English actress, presenter and narrator. Since coming to national notice for portraying the role of Mel Owen in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1998–2002, 2018–2019), she has starred in a number of theatre and television productions, including army series Red Cap and crime drama New Tricks. She portrayed Samantha Adler in the fourth episode The Lions of Causton of the twentieth series of Midsomer Murders.
Outhwaite lives in London. From 2006 to 2014, she was married to actor Tom Ellis, who appears as Lee Smeeton in the Midsomer Murders episode Midsomer Rhapsody. They have two daughters together. It was announced in 2013 that the couple had separated and the following month Outhwaite had filed for divorce.
Outhwaite was the subject of an episode of BBC TV series Who Do You Think You Are? shown on 21 August 2014. Her mother is of Italian heritage. Her maternal great grandfather Adelmo Santi and his eldest son Pietro Santi were born in Barga, Italy, and became naturalised British citizens in 1957, living first in Glasgow, Scotland, and then settling in Fishburn, England, with a thriving ice cream business.
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- Tamzin Outhwaite at Wikipedia