Peep Show Wiki
Register
Advertisement

Nancy is one of Jeremy's great loves and his former American wife, who he meets at a New-Agey dance class. She is played by Rachel Blanchard.

Obviously, God wanted us to enjoy ourselves. I mean, that's why he invented pills and clubs and lube and hardcore.

—Nancy

Profile[]

PS4

Nancy and Jeremy at Apollo House.

Nancy is a woman with a sweet disposition and inviting appearance but is self-absorbed and sexually manipulative. She is a pseudo-intellectual, often over-simplifying ideas, and she even admits that she was "underqualified" for an hourly spa position job. She is inspired by New Age ideas, seemingly as a rebellion against her conservative, Christian upbringing. She is determined to be sexually liberated to break all sexual taboos with Jeremy, including abstaining completely from sex (which she regards as the "last taboo").

Nancy is friends with Sophie and Karen, although they do not share any scenes.

Relationship and marriage to Jeremy[]

Nancy's relationship with Jeremy is a tenuous one. While it is never clear when they are officially together, she does sleep with Gwyn while dating Jez and her final coup de grâce was hooking up with Super Hans at Mark's wedding even though she is officially a guest of Jeremy's. Jeremy is so infatuated with her that he simply turns a blind eye to all of this.

She marries Jeremy for visa reasons and is generally unsympathetic that Jeremy is in love with her. During her wedding celebration she leaves the reception to interview for a health club position. At some point Nancy's mother expresses anger to Nancy that this marriage took place.

Disappearance and return[]

She disappears for a while after series 2, and gets swept up some Belgian nuns, ends up a crystal meth addict, and manages an IMAX in Bradford for a year and a half. She returns briefly in series 4 as an employee in at Champers Spa in South London.

Trivia[]

  • Although her character is American, wikipedia:Rachel Blanchard|Rachel Blanchard has quite a noticeable Canadian accent.
  • She is mentioned in Quantocking II when Mark recommends Jeremy stop thinking about Dobby by seeing what she's up to.
  • Becoming Jeremy's main love interest when actress Elizabeth Marmur became unavailable for further episodes, Rachel Blanchard was herself replaced by Sophie Winkleman as the new love interest when Blanchard became unavailable.
Advertisement