Bridget Christie

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

(1971-08-17) 17 August 1971 (age 52)
Gloucester, England
Education Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (BA)
Occupation(s)Stand-up, actress, writer
Years active2003–present
Spouse
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(m. 2006;sep. 2021)​
Children2
Website bridgetchristie.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 13 solo stand-up shows and several comedy tours, in addition to radio and television work.

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Early life and education

Christie grew up in Gloucester, England, the youngest of nine siblings born to parents from the west of Ireland: her father, Peter Christie, was from Boyle in the north of County Roscommon, while her mother, Mary Anne ( née Kelly), was from Manorhamilton in the north of County Leitrim. [3] She attended St Peter's Roman Catholic High School in Gloucester. [4]

In 1994, Christie won a three-year scholarship to study drama at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in Wandsworth, London. [5]

Career

Christie appeared in theatre productions and adverts before she began stand-up in 2004. [5] She was one of the finalists in the Funny Women Awards that year, 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". [6]

Her debut BBC Radio 4 series, Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, was broadcast in April 2013. [7] A second series was broadcast in January 2015, [8] followed by a third, Bridget Christie's Utopia, in January 2018. [9] The three series were well received and won the Best Radio award at the 2014 Chortle Awards [10] and the 2014 Rose D'Or International Broadcasting Award. [11]

Her debut book, A Book for Her, was published in July 2015 [12] to acclaim from The Daily Telegraph [13] and The List [14] and The Observer. [15] The paperback was released in February 2016 and the Spanish version in Barcelona in March 2017. [16]

Christie has written for 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. [17]

In 2015, she won a Red Magazine Women of the Year Award [18] and a Marie Claire Women at the Top Award. [19]

In May 2016, Christie recorded her debut screen 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. [20] [21]

She has written and performed 13 solo shows. [22] The majority originated at the Edinburgh Festival and include A Bic for Her, An Ungrateful Woman and her Brexit-themed Because You Demanded It, which was The Guardian''s No 1 Comedy of the Year 2016. [23]

In 2020, she was a finalist for Best Scripted Comedy (Longform) in the BBC Audio Drama Awards. [5]

Television appearances

Christie TV appearances include comedy programmes 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). and Have I Got News for You (BBC1) for which she was nominated for a 2014 British Comedy Award for Best Female TV Comic, [24] 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 BBC1's comedy Ghosts as Annie, a ghost who said four words. She reprised the role in 2022.

Christie was a contestant in series 13 of Taskmaster (Channel 4), which began airing in April 2022.

In March 2022, Channel 4 announced Christie would star in The Change (TV series) , a six-part comedy-drama series; which she also created and wrote. It was broadcast in June/July 2023. [25]

The Change

Her first television series is entitled The Change. It was broadcast on Channel 4 from 21 June 2023. [26] [27] It was also written and created by Christie. In the show, Bridget plays Linda, who finds a new lease of life when she learns she is undergoing menopause and heads to the forest on a journey of self-discovery. The Change was produced by Lisa Mitchell and executive-produced by Christie, Nerys Evans and Morwenna Gordon. [27]

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 .

Mortal

First broadcast in 2021, her four-part series for BBC Radio 4, Mortal , won the 2022 BBC Audio Drama Award. Mortal was a series about life and death which she recorded herself from home during Covid lockdown. [28]

Bridget Christie's Utopia

In her 2018 BBC Radio 4 show Utopia, Bridget attempted to come to terms with current world events – Kim Jong-un, the melting polar ice caps, the Brexit negotiations and Nick Knowles singing a cover of The Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun” - so embarked on a comic quest for her Utopia, a way of living that will make her less anxious and enable her to have her first happy wee since the Brexit vote in 2016.

It was recorded in front of a studio audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. Starring Bridget Christie with special guests Mike Christie, Leyla Hussein, Sister Agatha & Fran Blockley. [29] [30]

Bridget Christie Minds The Gap

In 2013, before a second series in 2015, Bridget's first BBC radio series was broadcast on Radio 4.

In Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, she gives us her personal take on feminism, asking why it became a dirty word and whether women still need it. From a bookshop fart to the 'Bic for Her' and a fish called Michael, she recalls the key incidents which led her to an epiphany and a call to arms - with the help of token man Fred MacAulay. In series two, she takes her activism to a new level as she deconstructs a yoghurt ad, tries to find an icon who doesn't replace the word 'feminism' with 'bootylicious', and reveals the consequences of wearing an 'End FGM' badge on a TV show. [31] A Christmas Special, ' Bridget Christie's Christmas List ' foilowed the second series in 2015. [32]

Podcasts

Christie has been guest on the podcasts 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.

Solo Stand-up Shows

Appearances in other shows

Awards

Personal life

Christie married comedian Stewart Lee in 2006. [38] [1] [39] They have two children. [39] Christie is a Catholic. [40] [41] [42] The couple separated amicably in 2021. [43] [44]

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