[3] 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.
[citation needed] 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.
She also appeared as Anthea Stonem in the E4 Teen drama Skins[8] and was a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live, for four episodes of the show's twentieth season.
[10][11] Her voice roles include Claire Feeble in Stressed Eric;[12] Cleo Lion in Between the Lions;[13] (Nick Jr UK) Mummy Pig and various other characters in Peppa Pig;[14] the ship's computer in the BBC TV series Hyperdrive;[15] Ping Pong in Rupert Bear; (Channel 5);[16] and Guinevere in King Arthur's Disasters (CITV).
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.
[30] In late 2019, she provided the voice of Mrs Brown in The Adventures of Paddington which began airing on Children 4 Jr and Nick Jr. in early 2020.