Bridget Christie

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.

Bridget Louise Christie (born 17 August 1971) 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.

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.

She attended St Peter's Roman Catholic High School in Gloucester.

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

Christie appeared in theatre productions and adverts before she began stand-up in 2004.

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".

Her debut BBC Radio 4 series, Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, was broadcast in April 2013.

The three series were well received and won the Best Radio award at the 2014 Chortle Awards and the 2014 Rose D'Or International Broadcasting Award.

and Have I Got News for You (BBC1) for which she was nominated for a 2014 British Comedy Award for Best Female TV Comic, 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).

A second series was broadcast in January 2015, followed by a third, Bridget Christie's Utopia, in January 2018.

Her debut book, A Book for Her, was published in July 2015 to acclaim from The Daily Telegraph and The List and The Observer.

She had a weekly column in Guardian Weekend magazine from October 2015 to March 2016.

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

The paperback was released in February 2016 and the Spanish version in Barcelona in March 2017.

Christie has written for The Sunday Times, The Times, The Independent and The Observer.

In May 2016, Christie recorded her debut screen stand-up special, Stand Up for Her (Live from Hoxton Hall), produced by Baby Cow Productions.

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.

It was released direct to Netflix on 31 March 2017.

She has written and performed 13 solo shows.

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.

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.

Bridget Christie's Utopia

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

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).

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.

The Change

Her first television series, The Change, broadcast on Channel 4 from 21 June 2023.

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.