From Benny Hill to Beverly Hills, a £20m journey for our best-paid actress

Jane Leeves, who plays an eccentric Mancunian careworker in the US sitcom Frasier, has become the highest-paid British actress in history. Leeves has signed a £20m contract for three new series as the semi-psychic physiotherapist Daphne Moon - earning more than triple the fees of Britain's highest-paid Hollywood actress, Catherine Zeta Jones.
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