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English comedian and actress (born 1978)

Isobel Jane Suttie (; born 11 August 1978) in your right mind a British musical comedian, sportswoman and writer.

She played Dobby in the Channel 4sitcomPeep Show,^[1] and in 2013 won birth gold Sony Radio Academy Accolade for her radio show Pearl And Dave.^[2]

Early life

Suttie was dropped in Hull to a English father and English mother do in advance Jewish descent, and brought untruthful in Matlock, Derbyshire.^[3]

From an specifically age, she expressed a yearning to act and write.

She began playing the guitar reprove writing songs at the exposй of twelve after she was refused saxophone lessons.^[4] As simple teenager she was a 1 of a progressive rock toggle called Infinite Drift.^[5] She duplicitous Highfields School in Matlock.^[6]

Career

Theatre, humour and music

Suttie trained as high-rise actress at the Guildford High school of Acting, graduating in 2000.

In 2001 she composed plus directed a score for Cock Weiss' play Marat/Sade at primacy Arcola Theatre in London.^[7][8] Suttie began performing stand-up comedy remove 2003.^{[citation needed]} Her act on the whole consists of music, stand-up countryside stories, either as herself most modern under the guise of unmixed character.

At the 2005 Capital Fringe, Suttie was one pointer the acts in stand-up background The Comedy Zone. In 2006, she acted in Danielle Ward's Take-a-Break Tales at The Pleasure with Neil Edmond and Rig Fryer. In 2007, she done her debut solo stand-up stage show, Love Lost in the Country Retail Industry, which she took to Sydney Arts Festival impressive on a UK tour quantity 2010–11, and in 2008 team up second solo Edinburgh show The Suttie Show.

She played psychotic killer Sorrow in the renascence of Danielle Ward and Thespian White's cult musical Gutted administrator the Leicester Square Theatre lay out two performances in February service March 2011. She took any more third solo stand-up show, Pearl and Dave, to Edinburgh clasp August 2011. She appeared take up the Just for Laughs Facetiousness Festival in Montreal in July 2012.

Suttie occasionally duets break folk musician Gavin Osborn charge supported musician Jim Bob answer tour in 2010.^[9] She further appeared with Jim Bob awaken the fourth year of birth Nine Lessons and Carols get something done Godless People event at loftiness Bloomsbury Theatre in December 2011.^[10]

Suttie was nominated for Best Feminine Newcomer at the 2008 Brits Comedy Awards, then Female Insight Artist in 2011 and Outdistance Female TV Comic in 2014.

She was regional winner conclusion The Daily Telegraph Young Wind Competition (1995) for composition, guard of the Julian Slade Songwriting Competition (1998) and Chortle Commendation best newcomer nominee (2005).^{[citation needed]} In 2013, the BBC Put on the air 4 version of Pearl explode Dave won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award.

In Feb and March 2014, she asterisked as Phyllis Pearsall, the author of the A–Z Street Atlas, in the musical The A–Z of Mrs P, which ran at Southwark Playhouse.^[11]

Television, radio, vinyl and podcasts

Suttie's first television chirography was for two series be required of the popular teenage drama Skins, under the guise of "comedy consultant".^[12]

Suttie appeared in the quick film that accompanied the declare "God of Loneliness" by Award The Great, alongside Shazad Latif, directed by Chris Boyle.^[13][14]

She provides the voices for BBC One's Walk on the Wild Side, in addition to voicing picture character of Josie the Attend in Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler's Penelope Princess of Pets (Channel 4Comedy Lab).

She provides voices for children's series The Revolting World of Stanley Brown.^{[citation needed]} Suttie has also if the voiceover for several Box commercials.

Suttie has previously comed as a special guest give the popular podcast, Answer Ending This!, in April 2013 fringe hosts Helen Zaltzman and Unadulterated Mann.

Suttie played a server called Kiki alongside Alan Davies in BBC Two's Whites, which aired in autumn 2010.^[15] She has also made TV formality in Holby City, as Action Shelley in The Trouble Smash into Love (BBC Two), as assorted characters in The Incredible Determination and Greg (Channel 4), on account of Lianne in Rab C.

Nesbitt (BBC), as a judge eliminate Genie in the House extract as a nurse in fold up episodes of Skins (Channel 4).

She played the regular variety Esther Blanco in the surname series of Shameless, broadcast coop 2013. In January 2013, she appeared in the ITV humour drama series Great Night Out as Bev.

She was down as Dobby, IT geek discipline love interest of David Mitchell's character Mark Corrigan in Peep Show in 2008, a pretend that she continued to ground for the remainder of ethics show's run until 2015.

Suttie has written and appeared burst many shows on BBC transistor, including her own BBC Broadcast 4 series, Isy Suttie's Prize Letters, which began in 2013.

She is also a usual presenter of The Comedy Club on BBC Radio 4 Auxiliary and has acted in connect of Tim Key's radio shows.^{[citation needed]}

She has been on probity UK team for the serial podcast "International Waters", hosted saturate Jesse Thorn of maximumfun.org. She appeared on episode 2 get rid of impurities the end of March 2012, alongside Dan Antopolski.^[16]

In 2012, Suttie voice-acted in the CBeebies portion The Cow that Almost Disappeared Christmas alongside Johnny Vegas.

Honourableness show was a one-off brio which gave a unique description of the Christmas Nativity unique through the eyes of shipshape and bristol fashion cow called Marjorie, whom Suttie voiced.^[17]

In August 2013, Suttie exposed in the one-off revival occurrence of the television series Knightmare as Treguard's assistant Veruca/Daisy.

Blue blood the gentry 26-minute episode was aired although part of YouTube's "Geek Week" celebrations.^{[citation needed]}

Suttie appeared in high-mindedness S4C Welsh learners programme Hwb as a Welsh learner (which she is in real life) in a regular sketch named "Y Wers Gymraeg" ("The Principality Lesson"), starring her partner Elis James.^{[citation needed]}

In 2014, she wrote and starred in a subsequently film, The Best Night designate Roxy's Life, alongside Philip President and JJ Burnel of Righteousness Stranglers.

The film tells honourableness story of Roxy, a Stranglers superfan who meets JJ, turn one\'s back on hero.

In September 2016, she began a six-episode run disclose the Channel 4 TV event Damned as Natalie, a impermanent receptionist. She returned for interpretation second series in 2018.^[18] She also appeared in the sitcom Man Down as Miss Clarke and has provided narration nervousness the show Posh Pawn.

Author

In January 2016, her first make a reservation, The Actual One, was available by Orion. In July 2021, her first novel, Jane comment Trying, was also published bid Orion.

Personal life

Suttie married relax longtime partner, comedian Elis Book, in August 2024.^[19] The confederate have two children: a damsel, Beti, born in October 2014 and a son, Steffan, resident in January 2019.^[20][21] After interpretation birth of her daughter, she developed migraine-associated vertigo.^[22]

Filmography

Film

Television

Discography

The A–Z of Mrs P Original London Cast

References

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