Montserrat Lombard

Montserrat Lombard is an English actress known for playing Sharon 'Shaz' Granger in the BBC drama series Ashes to Ashes.

Lombard was born on 1 August 1977 in Putney, London and is of Spanish and Italian descent. She starred in The Late Show, alongside James Corden in 1997, before moving onto television work and filmography.

Her television credits include regular roles in Love Soup (2005–2008) and Roman's Empire (2007). She is probably best known for her role as WPC Shaz Granger in the BBC drama Ashes to Ashes (2008–2010).

Other credits include guest roles in Doctors, Twisted Tales, Nathan Barley, Murder in Suburbia ("Witches", as a school girl named Myra who, among other things, bakes brownies and attempts to seduce her music teacher dressed in lacy underwear), a lead role in St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, Midsomer Murders: A Picture of Innocence, and a part in the feature-length ITV drama Tunnel Of Love. Lombard has also played Lavya in the episodes "Hello Queppu" and "Artefact" of the BBC Two sci-fi comedy series Hyperdrive, and Stevie in the fourth episode of the BBC Two comedy Saxondale. She appeared as Lady Anne in the BBC Radio 4 comedy The Castle, and has appeared in several stage productions, including People Who Don't Do Dinner Parties. Lombard played June in the short film Vanilla Song, created by National Film and Television School students, as well as Ian Sciacaluga's short film noir, Imbroglio. She played The Muse in William Mager's 2008 short film, Stiletto, funded by Apex Arts and the Hitchcock Production Fund. She had a small role in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. In 2009, she worked on the film St Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, playing Zoe, the Emo.