Jo Enright
Jo Enright (born 1968 in Birmingham) is an English stand-up comedian and actress who has appeared in a number of television and radio comedy programmes.
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[edit] Biography
She attended St Edmund Campion Catholic School, Erdington and then studied Drama at Middlesex University.
In 1995 she made her Edinburgh Festival debut as part of the three-hander The West Midland's Serious Comedy Squad.
In 2006 she appeared in the comedy series Time Trumpet on BBC2, playing herself as a commentator in the year 2031 looking back on the world nearly thirty years before.
From July 2008 she appeared in the BBC comedy series Lab Rats on BBC2, as lab assistant Cara McIlvenny.
12 October 2008, she played wheelchair user Jackie, a member of the fictional "2 Up, 2 Down", on Peter Kay's Britain's Got The Pop Factor ... And Possibly A New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice, a spoof on the talent show genre of programmes. This was the third Peter Kay venture she had starred in after That Peter Kay Thing and an episode of Phoenix Nights as Brian's valentine, Beverly.
Starting in 2009 she played the role of Carol in the fifth and sixth series of the BBC sitcom #Ideal.
In 2011, she appeared in Ricky Gervais' and Stephen Merchant's television comedy series Life's Too Short as Sue, Warwick Davis' estranged wife.
[edit] Awards
- 2002: Chortle Award winner for best female circuit comic
- 2001: Best Female on the Jongleurs Comedy Circuit, sponsored by Bodyform
- 1996: Named comedian of the year at the Leicester Comedy Festival
[edit] Filmography
- Life's Too Short as Sue
- Ideal as Carol
- Lab Rats (2008) as Cara McIlvenny
- Time Trumpet (2006) as herself (in an imagined future)
- Round (2003) as Ann
- I'm Alan Partridge - I Know What Alan Did Last Summer (2002) as Tax Inspector Catherine
- World of Pub - Ladies (2001)
- Phoenix Nights (aka Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights) - Episode #1.4 (2001) as Beverly Hillscopto
- That Peter Kay Thing - The Arena (1999)
- I Love a 1970's Christmas (2000) as herself
- Barking (1998), Channel 4 sketch show, as writer and performer
She has also provided voice-overs in advertisements for Jaffa Cakes, Living TV, Sainsburys, Hutchison and Nescafe. [1]
