Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born 14 July 1985) is an English actress and screenwriter. She is best known as the creator, head writer, and star of the BBC sitcom Fleabag (2016–2019), which was based on her one-woman show of the same name. She was also showrunner, head writer, and executive producer of the first series of Killing Eve (2018–2022), which she adapted for television.

For Fleabag, Waller-Bridge received the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, three Emmy Awards (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Comedy Series), and two Golden Globe Awards (Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy).

Waller-Bridge also created, wrote, and starred in the Channel 4 comedy series Crashing (2016). She appeared in the comedy series The Café (2011–2013) and the second series of crime drama series Broadchurch (2015). She has appeared in films such as Albert Nobbs (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), and as the droid L3-37 in the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). She also contributed to the screenplay of the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021).

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is an English actress and writer.[She is best known for creating, writing and starring in the comedy-drama series Crashing (2016) and Fleabag (2016–19), and for developing and writing the BBC America drama Killing Eve (2018–present), based on novels by Luke Jennings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Waller-Bridge

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born 14 July 1985) is an English actress, playwright, producer, and writer. She created, wrote, and starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Crashing (2016) and the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016–2019). She was the showrunner, writer, and producer for the first season of the BBC America thriller series Killing Eve (2018–present). She received the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for Fleabag, and her work has also led to numerous Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Waller-Bridge also appeared in the second series of Broadchurch and voiced the droid L3-37 in the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story. In 2019, she co-wrote the screenplay for the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die (2020).

Early life

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born in West London, the daughter of Theresa Mary (née Clerke) and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge. Her father founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, while her mother works for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex. On her father's side, she is also a descendant of The Rev. Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876. Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire. Waller-Bridge grew up in Ealing, London, and has a younger brother named Jasper, a music manager, and an older sister named Isobel, a composer who would later write the music for Fleabag. Her parents are divorced. She was educated at St Augustine's Priory, a Catholic independent school for girls, followed by the independent sixth form college DLD College London in Marylebone, London. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Career

In 2009, Waller-Bridge made her acting debut in the play Roaring Trade at Soho Theatre. In 2013, Waller-Bridge appeared in one episode of Bad Education as "India". She appeared in the second series of drama Broadchurch in 2015.

In addition to acting, Waller-Bridge is a playwright. Her work includes the series of plays Good. Clean. Fun. and Fleabag. In 2016, Waller-Bridge wrote and starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Crashing and BBC Three's adaptation of Fleabag.

After its initial release on BBC Three, Fleabag was broadcast on BBC Two from August 2016. It was picked up by the on-demand Amazon Video service and premiered in the United States in September 2016. For her performance in the series she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance and was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Fleabag's second and final series aired in 2019.

Waller-Bridge is the co-artistic director, with Vicky Jones, of DryWrite Theatre Company. The two met and became friends while working on theatre productions.

Waller-Bridge voiced and performed droid L3-37 in the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).

Waller-Bridge wrote and produced the thriller television series Killing Eve based on novels by Luke Jennings. The BBC America series stars Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer and premiered in April 2018. For her work on the script, she received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.

In March 2019, HBO ordered the series Run, which is created by Waller-Bridge and Vicky Jones and will star Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever in lead roles. Waller-Bridge will also feature in the series with a recurring role as the character Flick.

In 2019, Waller-Bridge co-wrote the screenplay for No Time to Die (2020), the 25th James Bond film, along with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.

Personal life

Waller-Bridge lives in Kensal Rise, London. She married Irish presenter and documentary filmmaker Conor Woodman in 2014. By 2017, the couple had separated and filed for divorce, which was finalised in 2018. Since early 2018, Waller-Bridge has been in a relationship with English-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.

Filmography

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Works and publications

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Awards

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