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Kat Sadler

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Kat Sadler
Born1994 (age 31–32)
Education
OccupationsActress, writer, comedian
TelevisionSuch Brave Girls (2023–present)

Kat Sadler (born 1994) is a British comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for writing and starring in the BBC Three comedy drama Such Brave Girls.

Early life and education

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Sadler was born in 1994 and is from Sutton, London.[1] Her mother is a personal trainer.[2] Sadler has a younger sister, actress Lizzie Davidson, who also plays her sister in Such Brave Girls.[1][3][4][5] Sadler's family experienced financial struggles whilst she was growing up, and she describes the family environment as "tempestuous".[6]

Sadler studied film and literature at Warwick University. Whilst there, she would write sketches for the comedy society and perform stand-up comedy.[7][8]

Sadler is her stage name with Davidson being her family name.[1]

Career

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In 2019, Sadler was awarded the BBC comedy writing bursary and became the in-house comedy writer for BBC Studios.[9]

Sadler was a writer on The Mash Report and won the BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary in 2019.[3] Her writing credits also include Joe Lycett's Got Your Back for Channel 4, The Jonathan Ross Show for ITV, Newsjack for BBC Radio 4 Extra and Frankie Boyle's New World Order for BBC Two, The Now Show and The News Quiz for BBC Radio 4, and Hypothetical and Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable for Dave.[10]

Such Brave Girls

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At the start of 2020, Sadler had deteriorating mental health, experiences she drew from for the BBC Three and Hulu sitcom Such Brave Girls (2023) which she wrote and starred in alongside her real life sister Lizzie Davidson.[11][12][3][1]

Discussing the 2021 pilot episode, Sadler said that:

"everything we joke about in the show is from a place of lived experience. I wish I could say this is a heart-warming show about overcoming trauma, but that would be a lie. It’s about three toxic, damaged egomaniacs manipulating the world and each other for their own personal gain, vengeance and glory…just like in Little Women."[13]

Sadler said that she wanted to create a character like herself – "I'm sort of obsessed with my own trauma, and love telling people...and I wanted to do a more tongue-in-cheek version of that really"[2] She drew on the experience of living at home with her mum and sister when she had to move home during lockdown.

At the start of filming the series in 2023, Sadler described the show as “a family sitcom about trauma, but it’s more about us being narcissistic losers who are pathetically obsessed with what people think about us.”[14] The BBC described the show as "an unflinching, often absurd, and very funny look at a mother and her two grown up children try to cope with their own emotional and financial fragility, whilst they are living under the same roof; a series not for the faint-hearted, or the easily offended."[2] After the second series was broadcast, a third series was commissioned in May 2026.[15]

Awards

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Year Award Category Nominee Result Ref.
2024 Chortle Awards Best TV Show Such Brave Girls Nominated [16]
BAFTA Television Craft Awards Emerging Talent: Fiction Kat Sadler Won [17]
Royal Television Society Programme Awards Best Female Comedy Performance Kat Sadler Nominated [18]
Best Scripted Comedy Such Brave Girls Nominated [19]
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards Best Comedy Such Brave Girls Nominated [20][21]
Best Writer Kat Sadler Nominated
BPG Breakthrough Talent Award Shortlisted
British Academy Television Awards Best Scripted Comedy Such Brave Girls Won [22][23]

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2026 Royal Television Society Programme Awards Best Scripted Comedy Such Brave Girls Nominated [24][25]
Writer - Comedy Kat Sadler Won [25][26]
BAFTA Best Comedy Writer Kat Sadler Nominated [27][28]

Sadler has twice been nominated for the BBC New Comedian of the Year award.[9]

Personal life

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Sadler is queer.[3]

Sadler has experience of mental health issues.[29] The idea for Such Brave Girls came out of her experience of calling her sister from hospital and told her she'd been sectioned after twice trying to take her own life, and her sister responded by revealing she was £20,000 in debt, then they both laughed.[6] When the first series came out, Sadler lost her best friend to suicide, which "gave me real fire to talk about it [the mental health system]"[6]

Filmography

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Television

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Year Title Channel Role Other Role Notes Ref.
2018-2019 The Mash Report BBC Two Writer Series 1, Episode 8;

Series 2, Episode 6; Series 3, Episodes 3, 5.

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2019-2020 Frankie Boyle's New World Order Writer Series 3, Episode 1, Special;

Series 4, Episode 1, Special.

2020-2021 Hypothetical U&Dave Writer (additional material) Series 2, Episodes 3, 4;

Series 3, Episode 2

2020-2021 The Jonathan Ross Show ITV1 Writer Series 16, Episode 7;

Series 17, Episodes 2, 3, 4, 8

2021 Attack Of The Hollywood Clichés! Netflix Writer
Joe Lycett's Got Your Back Channel 4 Writer (additional material) Series 3, Episodes 7, 8
2022 Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable U&Dave Writer (additional material) Series 2, Episodes 1–8
Tell Me Everything ITV2 Co-Writer Series 1, Episode 5 [9]
2023–present Such Brave Girls BBC Three Josie Creator, Writer, Executive Producer

Radio

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Year Title Station Role Other Notes Ref.
2018 BBC New Comedy Award BBC Radio 4 Herself Episode 2: "Heat 2 - London" [30]
2018-2019 The News Quiz Writer (additional material) Series 98, Episodes 2, 3, 5, 7;

Series 99, Episodes 1–8; Series 100, Episodes 1, 5, 7;
Writer Series 101, Episodes 6, 7
2019-2021 Newsjack BBC Radio 4 Extra Writer Series 20, Episodes 2, 3, 4, 6

Series 21, Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 Series 22, Episodes 1, 5; Series 23, Episode 2; Series 24, Episode 4
Script Editor Series 22, Episode 6;

Series 23, Episodes 3, 4; Series 24, Episode 3
2019 Newsjack Unplugged Writer Series 3, Episodes 1–8;

Series 4, Episodes 2–8
The Now Show BBC Radio 4 Writer (additional material) Series 54, Episodes 1, 5, 6, 7;

Series 55, Episodes 4, 5.
V.I.P R.I.P Writer Episodes 1, 2
2020 Alex Edelman's Peer Group Writer (additional material) Series 3, Episodes 1–4
2020 Obsessions Writer (additional material) Series 2, Episodes 1–4
2020 Nature Table Writer Series 1, Episodes 1–6; Christmas Special;

Series 2, Episodes 1–6; Series 3, Episodes 2, 3, 4, 6
2022, 2025 Kat Sadler's Screen Time Kat Writer Series 1 and 2 [31]
2024 Obsessions Guest Series 3, Episode

Online

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Year Title Channel Role Other role Notes Ref.
2017 Shower Business YouTube Business Woman Writer [30]
Sad Face Kat Writer
2018 10 easy steps to write the perfect tweet Kat Writer
From Russia With Lou & Annie Kat Writer Episode 16: "Matchday 16"
Viraltown Ensemble actor Episodes 1, 3, 6, 8
Rob & Beth Laura
2019 That friend who's stopped drinking Vimeo Alex
2021 Taking Stock YouTube Lorraine (Voice) Episode 9: "Productivity"
Michaela (Voice) Episodes 2, 5, 8

Live performance

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Year Title Role Venue Ref.
2018 Succubus Fringe Edition Host/Presenter Edinburgh Fringe Festival [30]
Tracy's Leaving Party: Hot Young Things Self Work in progress show with Christy Coysh

Media appearances

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Radio:

  • 9 July 2025 – Front Row, BBC Radio 4 – discussing Such Brave Girls.[2]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Aroesti, Rachel (21 November 2023). "'We just can't do serious': gross-out comedy Such Brave Girls and the sister stars who wrote it". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Kat Sadler, creator of BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls". BBC. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Dowell, Ben (18 November 2023). "Such Brave Girls: my big BBC comedy about anxiety and dysfunction". The Times. Retrieved 20 November 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ Lee, Shola (28 June 2025). "'Better dead than single': The dark comedy inspired by 'bleak' dating scene". BBC News. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  5. ↑ Nhundu, Kimberly (30 June 2025). "'Outstanding' BBC comedy that viewers 'finish in one night'". Devon Live. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Lobb, Adrian (2025-07-03). "Such Brave Girls creator Kat Sadler: 'There's still a lot of poverty porn on TV'". Big Issue. Retrieved 2026-03-27.
  7. ↑ "Kat Sadler and Cameron Loxdale". Why Did The Chicken. October 9, 2017. Archived from the original on 20 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  8. ↑ "And the Chortle student people's choice is..." Chortle.co.uk. 8 April 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  9. 1 2 3 "Kat Sadler CV" (PDF). Retrieved 2026-03-27.
  10. ↑ "Kat Sadler". British Comedy Guide. Archived from the original on 20 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  11. ↑ Dandov, Owen (15 November 2023). "A24 Comedy Such Brave Girls Hypes Its Hulu Debut With Humorous New Trailer [EXCLUSIVE]". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  12. ↑ "'I told my sister I'd been sectioned... then we both burst out laughing'". Chortle. 17 November 2023. Archived from the original on 19 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  13. ↑ "KAT SADLER IS A BRAVE GIRL IN BBC THREE PILOT". Funny Women. September 10, 2021. Archived from the original on 20 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  14. ↑ Dessau, Bruce (17 May 2023). "BBC Makes New Comedy Such Brave Girls With Kat Sadler". Beyondthejoke. Archived from the original on 20 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  15. ↑ "Kat Sadler's award-winning BBC comedy Such Brave Girls returns for series 3". BBC News. 13 May 2026. Retrieved 8 September 2026.
  16. ↑ "Final Chortle Award nominees revealed". Chortle. 9 February 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  17. ↑ "Baftas for Kat Sadler, Jack Rooke and Bisha K Ali". Chortle. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  18. ↑ "RTS PROGRAMME AWARDS 2024". RTS.org.uk. 7 March 2024.
  19. ↑ "RTS PROGRAMME AWARDS 2024". RTS.org.uk. 7 March 2024.
  20. ↑ "Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2024 nominees". British Comedy Guide. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  21. ↑ "Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2024 nominees". British Comedy Guide. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  22. ↑ Richardson, Hollie (20 March 2024). "Bafta TV awards 2024 nominations: full list". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  23. ↑ Richardson, Hollie (20 March 2024). "Bafta TV awards 2024 nominations: full list". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  24. ↑ "Nominations announced for the RTS Programme Awards 2026". rts.org. 10 March 2026. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
  25. 1 2 Knight, Lewis. "Royal Television Society Awards 2026 winners: From Adolescence to EastEnders". Radio Times. Retrieved 2026-03-27.
  26. ↑ "Nominations announced for the RTS Programme Awards 2026". rts.org. 10 March 2026. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
  27. ↑ Bennett, Steve. "Four Bafta nods for Amandaland : News 2026". Chortle. Retrieved 2026-03-27.
  28. ↑ Yossman, K. J. (2026-03-24). "'Adolescence' Earns 12 BAFTA TV Nominations, Continuing Awards Season Dominance". Variety. Retrieved 2026-03-27.
  29. ↑ Dessau, Bruce (2025-07-03). "TV Review: Such Brave Girls, BBC Three/iPlayer". Beyond The Joke. Retrieved 2026-03-27.
  30. 1 2 3 4 "Kat Sadler". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2026-03-27.
  31. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Kat Sadler's Screen Time, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 2026-03-27.
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