Bridget Christie
Encyclopedia
Bridget Christie is an award winning British comedian, actress and writer. She studied acting at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts.
She has appeared in several TV and radio shows, including The Omid Djalili Show
on BBC One
and The Culture Show
on BBC Two
. BBC Radio 4
shows The Broadcasting House Programme, Andy Zaltzman
's History of the Third Millennium, The News Quiz
, Miranda Hart
's House Party
, It's Your Round, Sarah Millican
's Support Group: Series 2, Loose Ends
, The Fred Macaulay Show, and Danielle Ward
's podcast Do The Right Thing
. She will soon appear in Harry Hill
's short film for Sky
's Little Crackers
Series and in Cardinal Burns on E4
. In 2009 Bridget was nominated for the Chortle Best Breakthrough Act Award.
She has written and performed six critically acclaimed consecutive solo Edinburgh Festival
shows, The Cheese Roll, The Court of King Charles II, for which she won the Funny Women Fringe Award for Best Show
, The Court of King Charles II - The Second, My Daily Mail Hell, A Ant and Housewife Surrealist. In 2009 Christie played Lady Teazle opposite Lionel Blair
's Sir Peter Teazle in Richard Brinsley Sheridan
's The School for Scandal
, directed by Cal McCrystal
at the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
and in 2010 was a regular cast member in Broadway
hit Celebrity Autobiography, both in Edinburgh and the West End
, which also guest-starred Jennifer Coolidge
, Michael Urie
, Caroline Rhea
, David Tennant
and Stephen Merchant
. In 2011 Bridget was one of a number of actors who read cold Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s play about power, exclusion and scapegoating, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, without previous knowledge of the text, at the Edinburgh Festival
.
She can also be seen in Harry Hill's Little Internet Show as an ant, and also as a person on a beach, shouting.
Christie lives in London with her husband, the comedian Stewart Lee
, and their two children.
She has appeared in several TV and radio shows, including The Omid Djalili Show
The Omid Djalili Show
The Omid Djalili Show was a British sketch comedy/stand-up comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. Writing by Omid Djalili, Will Smith, Roger Drew, Ian Stone, Ricky Grover with script editor Steve Punt...
on BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
and The Culture Show
The Culture Show
The Culture Show is a weekly BBC Two Arts magazine programme. It is broadcast in the UK on Thursday nights at 7pm, focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture, music, visual fashion and the performing arts...
on BBC Two
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
. BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
shows The Broadcasting House Programme, Andy Zaltzman
Andy Zaltzman
Andrew "Andy" Zaltzman is a British comedian and author who largely focuses on political material. He has worked extensively with John Oliver; their work together includes Political Animal, The Department and The Bugle.-Early life:...
's History of the Third Millennium, The News Quiz
The News Quiz
The News Quiz is a topical panel game broadcast on British radio BBC Radio 4.-History:It was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently it was chaired by Simon Hoggart, Barry Took , and then again by Simon Hoggart until March 2006. Hoggart was replaced by Sandi Toksvig in...
, Miranda Hart
Miranda Hart
Miranda Katharine Hart Dyke , known professionally as Miranda Hart, is an English actress, writer and stand-up comedienne. She writes and stars in the BBC sitcom Miranda...
's House Party
House party
A house party in the English-speaking world is typically a type of party where medium to large groups of people gather at the residence of the party's host. In modern usage, a house party is typically associated with teenage or young adult crowds, loud music, dancing, and the consumption of alcohol...
, It's Your Round, Sarah Millican
Sarah Millican
Sarah Millican is an English stand-up comedian. Millican won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.-Career:...
's Support Group: Series 2, Loose Ends
Loose Ends
In common conversation, the phrase loose ends usually refers to unresolved issues.Loose Ends may also refer to the following:In music:* Loose Ends * Loose Ends...
, The Fred Macaulay Show, and Danielle Ward
Danielle Ward
Danielle Ward is a British stand-up comedian and writer.-Career:In 2006 Ward won the Time Outs Critic's Choice award for Best Newcomer and wrote Take A Break Tales - exaggerated adaptations of women's magazine stories - in which she appeared with Neil Edmond, Emma Fryer and Isy Suttie at the...
's podcast Do The Right Thing
Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American dramedy produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee, who is also a featured actor in the film. Other members of the cast include Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, and John Turturro. It is also notably the...
. She will soon appear in Harry Hill
Harry Hill
Harry Hill , is a Perrier Award–winning English comedian, author and television presenter. A former medical doctor , Hill began his career in comedy with the popular radio show Harry Hill's Fruit Corner.-Personal life:Hill was born in Woking,...
's short film for Sky
Sky
The sky is the part of the atmosphere or outer space visible from the surface of any astronomical object. It is difficult to define precisely for several reasons. During daylight, the sky of Earth has the appearance of a pale blue surface because the air scatters the sunlight. The sky is sometimes...
's Little Crackers
Little Crackers
Little Crackers is a British television comedy series that was broadcast on Sky1 and Sky1 HD in December 2010. It consists of a series of short films featuring stars of British comedy including Dawn French, Stephen Fry and Catherine Tate...
Series and in Cardinal Burns on E4
E4
E4, E.IV or E-4 may refer to:In entertainment:* E4 , a digital television channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland* Every Extend Extra Extreme a video game from Q Entertainment* Entertainment for All video game expo...
. In 2009 Bridget was nominated for the Chortle Best Breakthrough Act Award.
She has written and performed six critically acclaimed consecutive solo Edinburgh Festival
Edinburgh Festival
The Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...
shows, The Cheese Roll, The Court of King Charles II, for which she won the Funny Women Fringe Award for Best Show
Best Show
Best Show is Taiwanese Mandopop artist Show Luo's first Mandarin greatest hits album. It was released by Avex Taiwan after his departure from the label and before his first release Show Your Dance with EMI Music Taiwan...
, The Court of King Charles II - The Second, My Daily Mail Hell, A Ant and Housewife Surrealist. In 2009 Christie played Lady Teazle opposite Lionel Blair
Lionel Blair
Lionel Blair is a British actor, choreographer, tap dancer and television presenter. He is the son of Myer Ogus and Deborah Greenbaum...
's Sir Peter Teazle in Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford , Westminster and Ilchester...
's The School for Scandal
The School for Scandal
The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on May 8, 1777.The prologue, written by David Garrick, commends the play, its subject, and its author to the audience...
, directed by Cal McCrystal
Cal McCrystal (director)
Cal McCrystal is a British theatre director. He is the brother of the journalist Damien McCrystal and the son of the journalist and writer Cal McCrystal.-References:...
at the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
and in 2010 was a regular cast member in Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
hit Celebrity Autobiography, both in Edinburgh and the West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
, which also guest-starred Jennifer Coolidge
Jennifer Coolidge
Jennifer Coolidge is an American actress best known for playing "Stifler's mom," the older woman in the film American Pie ; Hilary Duff's stepmother in A Cinderella Story ; Paulette, the manicurist in Legally Blonde and its sequel; the voice of Aunt Fanny in the animated feature Robots ; for her...
, Michael Urie
Michael Urie
Michael Lorenzo Urie is an American actor, television producer and director, best known for his portrayal of Marc St. James on the ABC dramedy series Ugly Betty.-Personal life:...
, Caroline Rhea
Caroline Rhea
Caroline Gilchrist Rhea is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actress who was the original host of the reality television show The Biggest Loser on NBC until she was replaced by Alison Sweeney after the end of the third season...
, David Tennant
David Tennant
David Tennant is a Scottish actor. In addition to his work in theatre, including a widely praised Hamlet, Tennant is best known for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, along with the title role in the 2005 TV serial Casanova and as Barty Crouch, Jr...
and Stephen Merchant
Stephen Merchant
Stephen James Merchant is an English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian, and actor. He is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom The Office, as the co-writer, co-director and a co-star of Extras, and as the...
. In 2011 Bridget was one of a number of actors who read cold Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s play about power, exclusion and scapegoating, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, without previous knowledge of the text, at the Edinburgh Festival
Edinburgh Festival
The Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...
.
She can also be seen in Harry Hill's Little Internet Show as an ant, and also as a person on a beach, shouting.
Christie lives in London with her husband, the comedian Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
, and their two children.
Shows
- Bridget Christie: Housewife Surrealist Edinburgh FringeEdinburgh FringeThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August...
2011 - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit Edinburgh FringeEdinburgh FringeThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August...
2011 - Bridget Christie: A Ant, Edinburgh FringeEdinburgh FringeThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August...
2010 - Celebrity Autobiography, Edinburgh Fringe 2010
- The School for Scandal, Edinburgh Fringe 2009
- Bridget Christie: My Daily Mail Hell, Edinburgh Fringe 2009
- The Court of King Charles II - The Second, Edinburgh Fringe 2008
- The Court of King Charles II, Edinburgh Fringe 2007
- The Cheese Roll, Edinburgh Fringe 2006
- Christie and Doyle's Axis of Evil, Fringe 2005
Awards
- Funny Women Final 2004 - Finalist
- Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2005 - Nominee
- Funny Women Best Show Fringe Award 2007 - Winner
- Chortle Best Breakthrough Act 2009 - Nominee
Press
- "A writer and performer of prodigious talent" The Guardian
- "True, beautiful insanity" Sunday Times
- "Insightful, intelligent and absurd in equal measure" Chortle
- "Fascinating" Times
- "Real class" Time Out