As per our current Database, Elaine C. Smith is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Elaine C. Smith is 66 years, 4 months and 20 days old. Elaine C. Smith will celebrate 67rd birthday on a Saturday 2nd of August 2025. Below we countdown to Elaine C. Smith upcoming birthday.
Elaine C. Smith was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
In 1984, she made her TV debut on the BBC Scotland comedy Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee, however her first major television appearance came in 1986 as a star on the BBC Sketch show Naked Video. Made by BBC Scotland, it was shown throughout the UK on BBC Two. In between seasons of Naked Video, Smith also starred in Scottish sitcom City Lights, which ran for four years on the BBC.
Smith is best known for her role as Mary "Mary Doll" Nesbitt in the BBC sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt, a series based on characters in a Naked Video Sketch. Launched in 1990 and set in Glasgow, the show was a cult hit, and ran for nine years on BBC2. The show was revived for a Christmas special in 2008, two new series in 2010 and 2011, and a New Year special in 2014.
In August 2007, she was appointed to the Scottish Broadcasting Commission established by the Scottish Government and, in October 2007, she appeared in an episode of the Jennifer Saunders sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.
In September 2008 she began touring the UK in a stage version of the hit British film Calendar Girls, along with Lynda Bellingham, Patricia Hodge, Siân Phillips, Gaynor Faye and Brigit Forsyth. The show opened in London's West End at the Noël Coward Theatre in April 2009. The original cast left the show at the end of July 2009 but Smith returned in a different role as part of a national tour in 2010.
In late 2009, her autobiography, Nothing Like a Dame (ISBN 1845964551), was published.
In 2010 she took part in an STV tribute to Scottish actor Gerard Kelly. In January 2011 she appeared on Celebrity Mastermind with singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell as her specialist subject. She finished second on the programme.
In 2012, she played Scottish singer Susan Boyle in the musical I Dreamed a Dream (which she co-wrote with Alan McHugh), based on Boyle's life and rise to fame. There were plans to tour the show in Australia in 2013 but these plans were cancelled.
In 2015, Smith had a part in the third series of Kay Mellor's BBC drama The Syndicate.
In 2016, she began starring in the BBC Scotland sitcom Two Doors Down.
