Alice Chilton

Alice Chilton teaches Phoebe's class at primary school, capable and warm with a room full of small children, used to being the calmest person present. She keeps things orderly and kind — until Jamie Tartt turns up for show-and-tell and her composure gets a proper test.

Tanya Reynolds plays the flustered comedy of a competent adult suddenly starstruck with total commitment, never tipping into caricature. It's a small role that lands because she treats Alice's professionalism as real first, so the crack in it — celebrity meeting classroom routine — actually earns the laugh.