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Bridget Christie
Bridget Christie onstage at Crap Comedy Festival, 2017.
Bridget Christie onstage at Crap Comedy Festival, 2017.
Born
Bridget Louise Christie

(1971-08-17) 17 August 1971 (age 53)
Gloucester, England
Occupation(s)Stand-up, actress, writer
Years active2003–present
Spouse
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(m. 2006)​
Websitebridgetchristie.co.uk

Bridget Louise Christie (born 17 August 1971)[1][2] is an English stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She has written and performed 12 Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows and several comedy tours, in addition to radio and television work. She has received British and international comedy awards and is also an award-winning newspaper columnist and author.

Early life and education

Christie grew up in Gloucester, England, the youngest of nine siblings born to Irish parents. She attended St Peter's Roman Catholic High School in Gloucester.[3]

In 1994 she won a three-year scholarship to study Drama at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in Wandsworth, London.[4]

Career

Christie appeared in various theatre productions and adverts before she began stand-up in 2004.[4] She was one of the finalists in the Funny Women Awards which that year was won by Zoe Lyons. She was described by the show's founder, Lynne Parker as "one of the most influential funny women who has ever entered our competition".[5]

Her debut BBC Radio 4 series, Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, was broadcast in April 2013.[6] A second series was broadcast in January 2015[7] followed by a third, Bridget Christie's Utopia, in January 2018. [8] The three series were well-received and won several radio awards including Best Radio at the 2014 Chortle Awards[9] and the 2014 Rose D'Or International Broadcasting Award.[10]

Her debut book, A Book for Her, was published in July 2015[11] to acclaim from The Daily Telegraph[12] and The List[13] and The Observer.[14] The paperback was released in February 2016 and the Spanish version in Barcelona in March 2017.[15]

Christie has written for The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Independent, and The Observer. She had a weekly column in Guardian Weekend magazine from October 2015 to March 2016.[16]

In 2015 she won a Red Magazine Women of the Year Award[17] and a Marie Claire Women at the Top Award.[18]

In May 2016, Christie recorded her debut stand-up special, Stand Up for Her (Live from Hoxton Hall), produced by Baby Cow Productions. It was released direct to Netflix on 31 March 2017.[19][20]

She has written and performed 12 acclaimed consecutive solo Edinburgh Festival shows. Her Edinburgh festival shows A Bic for Her, An Ungrateful Woman and her Brexit-themed "Because You Demanded It" was The Guardian's No 1 Comedy of the Year 2016.[21]

In 2020, she was a finalist for Best Scripted Comedy (Longform) BBC Audio Drama Awards.[4]

Television appearances

Christie has appeared on several TV comedy programmes, including It's Kevin (BBC2), QI, The Omid Djalili Show (BBC1), Harry Hill's Little Cracker (Sky), Anna and Katy (Channel 4), The Culture Show (BBC2), Mel & Sue (ITV), Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (Dave). Have I Got News for You (BBC1) for which she was nominated for a 2014 British Comedy Award for Best Female TV comic,[22] the Alternative Comedy Experience (Comedy Central), Room 101 (BBC1), Cardinal Burns (Channel 4), Celebrity Squares (ITV), This Week (BBC One) and Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule (ITV). In 2020 she appeared in BBC One's hit comedy Ghosts as Annie, a ghost who said four words. In November 2021, Christie was announced as a contestant in series 13 of Taskmaster (Channel 4) which began airing in April 2022. In March 2022 Channel 4 announced that Christie will star in The Change, a six-part comedy-drama series; which she also created and wrote.[23]

Radio

Work for BBC Radio 4 and others includes Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium, Miranda Hart's House Party, It's Your Round, Sarah Millican's Support Group, The Fred MacAulay Show, Dan Tetsell's The 21st Century for Time Travellers, The Now Show, Kerry’s List, It's Not What You Know, Dilemma, French and Saunders' Christmas Show, and The Casebook of Max and Ivan. In 2019, she became curator of the museum on the Radio 4 series The Museum of Curiosity.

Podcasts

Christie has appeared on a number of podcasts including Danielle Ward's Do The Right Thing, Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown, Jarlath Regan's An Irishman Abroad, Stuart Goldsmith’s The Comedian’s Comedian, The Adam Buxton Podcast, The Penguin Podcast with Richard E. Grant, Literary Death Match, Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster, and Spotify podcast We Need to Talk About.

Appearances in other shows

Awards

  • Marie Claire – Women at the Top Awards 2015 – winner[18]
  • Red magazine Women of the Year Awards 2015 (Creative) – winner[17][24]
  • South Bank Sky Arts Award for Best Comedy for A Bic for Her (2014) – winner[25]
  • Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show with A Bic for Her (2013) – winner[26][27]
  • Funny Women Best Show Fringe Award for The Court of King Charles II (2007) – winner[28]

Personal life

Christie married comedian Stewart Lee in 2006.[29][1][30] They live in Stoke Newington, London,[31] and have two children.[30]

References

  1. ^ a b Iqbal, Nosheen (26 March 2010). "Comedy profile: Bridget Christie". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  2. ^ Brand, Katy (8 March 2013). "International Women's Day 2013: Bridget Christie is trying her hardest to make feminism funny". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 June 2022.(subscription required)
  3. ^ Jarlath Regan (16 January 2016). "Bridget Christie". An Irishman Abroad (Podcast) (122 ed.). SoundCloud. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "What On Earth Is Bridget Christie?". www.bridgetchristie.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  5. ^ Guide, British Comedy (18 April 2016). "Funny Women Awards". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Bridget Christie Minds The Gap | Series 1". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Bridget Christie Minds The Gap | Series 2". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  8. ^ "Bridget Christie's Utopia". Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Bridget does the double at the Chortles". Chortle. 26 March 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  10. ^ "Newsletter – October 27th 2014…". www.bridgetchristie.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  11. ^ Christie, Bridget (July 2015). A Book for Her. Random House. ISBN 978-0099590842.
  12. ^ McLaren, Iona (20 November 2015). "The 100 best books of 2015". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 June 2022.(subscription required)
  13. ^ "Best comedy literature to buy this Christmas". The List. 9 November 2015. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  14. ^ Groskop, Viv (20 July 2015). "A Book for Her by Bridget Christie review – a hybrid of writing and performance". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  15. ^ "Un libro para ella!". Chortle. 26 June 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  16. ^ "Profile: Bridget Christie". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  17. ^ a b Lunn, Natasha (12 October 2015). "Heroines, trailblazers, pioneers: the Red Women of the Year winners". Red Magazine. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  18. ^ a b "Women At The Top Awards: Here's What We Learned In One Inspiring Night". Marie Claire. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  19. ^ "Bridget Christie comes to Netflix". Chortle. 1 April 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  20. ^ Dessau, Bruce (1 April 2017). "News: Bridget Christie Live Show On Netflix". Beyond The Joke. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  21. ^ Logan, Brian (13 December 2016). "Brian Logan's top 10 comedy of 2016". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  22. ^ "Winners 2014". The British Comedy Awards. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  23. ^ "CHANNEL 4 COMMISSIONS NEW COMEDY THE CHANGE FROM BRIDGET CHRISTIE". Channel 4 (Press release). 14 March 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  24. ^ "Acaster and Christie do the double". Chortle. 16 March 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  25. ^ Osborn, Michael (27 January 2014). "Tracey Emin and Arctic Monkeys win South Bank awards". BBC News. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  26. ^ Brocklehurst, Steven (24 August 2013). "Bridget Christie wins Foster's Edinburgh comedy award". BBC News. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  27. ^ "Bridget Christie". Women in Humanities. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 11 May 2018.
  28. ^ "Bridget Christie". Downstairs at the King's Head. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  29. ^ Hanning, James (9 March 2014). "Stewart Lee: Beware – this man may be only joking". The Independent on Sunday. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  30. ^ a b Logan, Brian (19 August 2014). "Take my husband: Stewart Lee, Bridget Christie and the rise of comedy couples". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  31. ^ Chacko, Roy (27 June 2019). "Stoke Newington's independent booksellers on their great expectations (or otherwise) for the industry". Hackney Gazette. Retrieved 17 June 2022.[better source needed]
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