Bridget Christie

Bridget Christie

Christie in 2007, dressed as King Charles II during a performance
Born Bridget Louise Christie
1971 (age 44–45)
Gloucester, England, UK
Occupation Stand-up, actor, writer
Spouse(s) Stewart Lee (2006–present)[1][2][3]
Children 2
Website www.bridgetchristie.co.uk

Bridget Louise Christie (born 1971)[1][4] is a multi-award winning English stand-up comedian, actor and writer.

Early life

Christie grew up in Gloucester, the youngest of nine siblings born to Irish parents. She attended St Peter's Roman Catholic High School.[5]

In 1994 she won a three year scholarship to study Drama at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in Wandsworth, London. She appeared in various theatre productions and adverts and in 2004 she began her stand-up career.

Career

Christie has appeared in numerous TV and BBC Radio 4 comedy programmes, including It's Kevin (BBC2), Have I Got News for You (BBC1), the Alternative Comedy Experience (Comedy Central), Room 101 (BBC1), The Culture Show (BBC2), Cardinal Burns (Channel 4), and Celebrity Squares. Radio 4 programmes include The Infinite Monkey Cage, The News Quiz, The Unbelievable Truth, and Loose Ends. She appeared in the UK run of Celebrity Autobiography, both at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in the West End.

As a writer, she has contributed to The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Independent, The Observer, various magazines and had her own weekly column in Guardian Weekend Magazine between October 2015 and March 2016 (which gained her a Glamour Magazine award nomination). Her debut book, A Book for Her, was published by Century in July 2015 to universal critical acclaim and was nominated for a 2016 Chortle Award for Best Book. It also made the Telegraph's Top 100 Books for Christmas and Top Ten Comedy Books in The List.[6]

Her stand-up career began in 2004 when she reached the finals of the Funny Women Competition. In 2006 she was nominated for the Leicester Comedian of the Year. In 2007 her Edinburgh Fringe show The Court of King Charles II – The Second won the inaugural Funny Women Best Show Fringe Award. In 2009 she was nominated for Best Breakthrough Act at the Chortle Awards. Her 2013 Edinburgh show, A Bic for Her, won the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, the 2014 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Best Comedy, Best Show at the 2014 Chortle Awards and became the top-selling comedy show in the history of Soho Theatre. It also won a 2014 Hospital Club 100 Award for Theatre and Performance. Her 2014 tour, a double bill of A Bic for Her (2013) and An Ungrateful Woman (2014) won the 2015 Chortle Award for Best Tour.

Her debut BBC Radio 4 series about feminism, Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, was broadcast in March 2013. It won Best Radio at the Chortle Awards 2014 and Best Radio Comedy at the prestigious Rose d'Or (Golden Rose) International Broadcasting Awards 2014. It was also nominated for a Radio Academy Award 2014. A second series was broadcast in January 2015 and won Best Radio at the 2015 Chortle Awards for the second year running.

Bridget was also nominated for a 2014 British Comedy Award for Best Female TV Comic for her appearance on Have I Got News For You.

In October 2015 Bridget was named as one of ten Marie Claire (magazine)'s "Women at the Top" award winners and in November 2015 she won a prestigious Red Magazine' Women of the Year Award (creative category).

Shows

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Comedy profile: Bridget Christie", The Guardian, 26 March 2010; accessed 15 April 2013
  2. ↑ Hanning, James (9 March 2014). "Stewart Lee: Beware – this man may be only joking". The Independent on Sunday.
  3. ↑ Logan, Brian (19 August 2014). "Take my husband: Stewart Lee, Bridget Christie and the rise of comedy couples". The Guardian.
  4. ↑ "International Women's Day 2013: Bridget Christie is trying her hardest to make feminism funny". Telegraph.co.uk. 8 March 2013.
  5. ↑ Jarlath Regan (16 January 2016). "Bridget Christie". An Irishman Abroad (Podcast) (122 ed.). SoundCloud. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Brand, Katy (8 March 2013). "Bridget Christie is trying her hardest to make feminism funny". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2013.

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