Jocelyn Jee Esien the American reality TV show "Jon & Kate Plus 8". She also appeared in the BBC comedy "Big School" as Headmistress Ms Baron's (Frances de la Tour) personal assistant and secretary named Daphne, from 2013 to 2014. Jocelyn Jee Esien Jocelyn Jee Esien (born 2 March 1979) is an English comedian, actress and writer of Nigerian origin, perhaps best known for her part in the hidden-camera show "3 Non-Blondes", and her own comedy sketch show, "Little Miss Jocelyn". Born in Hackney, London, to Nigerian parents, Esien attended Raine's Foundation School, and initially studied law before giving up to study drama,
Frances de la Tour 2009, she appeared in Alan Bennett's new play "The Habit of Art" at the National. In 2012, she returned to the National in her third Bennett premiere, "People". Her many television appearances during the 1980s and 1990s include the 1980 miniseries "Flickers" opposite Bob Hoskins, the TV version of "Duet for One", for which she received a BAFTA nomination, the series "A Kind of Living" (1988–89), Dennis Potter's "Cold Lazarus" (1996), and "Tom Jones" (1997). Of all her TV roles, however, she is best known for playing spinster Ruth Jones in the successful Yorkshire television comedy "Rising Damp", from 1974