Morwenna Banks

Banks attended the private Truro High School for Girls and Robinson College, Cambridge, and was a member of the Cambridge Footlights from 1981 to 1983. She also acted with the Marlowe Society, such as in a brief comic cameo as the Widow in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, alongside Tilda Swinton.One of Banks' early major television roles was as part of the team on the comedy sketch show Absolutely, broadcast on Channel 4 between 1989 and 1993. Her other television appearances include the BBC series The Thick of It, Red Dwarf, Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul and the Steve Coogan comedy Saxondale, in which she played receptionist Vicky. She also appeared as Anthea Stonem in the E4 Teen drama Skins and was a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live, for four episodes of the show's twentieth season. She appeared as Carmen Kenaway in the first two episodes of the ninth series of Shameless.

Her voice roles include Claire Feeble in Stressed Eric; Cleo Lion in Between the Lions; (Nick Jr UK) Mummy Pig and various other characters in Peppa Pig; the ship's computer in the BBC TV series Hyperdrive; Ping Pong in Rupert Bear; (Channel 5); and Guinevere in King Arthur's Disasters (CITV). Banks won Best Voice Performance at the 2014 British Animation Awards for providing the voice for Queen Marigold in Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom and a voice in Humf.

Banks wrote, produced, and appeared in the British ensemble film The Announcement in 2001. She also appeared in season one, episode 13 of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a "rulebearer". In 2004, she played the central role of Tess in the series Catterick, with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. She also appeared in their shows The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer and Monkey Trousers.

Banks had also voiced Sophie in Crapston Villas, an adult animated sitcom soap opera, which was produced in the 1990s. Both Banks and the television programme’s creator, Sarah Ann Kennedy, would later go on to voice characters in Peppa Pig.