Nationality Canadian/Irish Role Comedian Name Katherine Ryan | Website Official website Children 1 Movies The Last Resort | |
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Born 30 June 1983 (age 40) Sarnia, Ontario, Canada ( 1983-06-30 ) Similar People Sara Pascoe, Aisling Bea, Josh Widdicombe, Joel Dommett, James Acaster | ||
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Katherine Ryan (born June 30, 1983) is a Canadian comedian, writer, presenter and actress, based in the United Kingdom. She has appeared on British panel shows including Mock the Week, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, A League of Their Own, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Would I Lie to You?, QI, Just a Minute, Safeword , and Have I Got News For You. In 2015, she replaced Steve Jones as the presenter of Hair on BBC Two. As an actress, she has appeared in the Channel 4 sitcom Campus, BBC Two sitcom Episodes and Don't Sit in the Front Row with Jack Dee.
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- Katherine ryan 2015 comedy up late on abc ep1
- Comedy lounge katherine ryan on bbc radio 1 contains strong language
- Early life
- Career
- As a comedian
- Other work
- Controversy
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
As a stand-up comedian, Ryan has appeared on the BBC's Live at the Apollo, both as a featured act and as a lead act. For her work, Ryan won the Nivea Funny Women Award, and was also runner-up in the Amused Moose Laugh-Off competition in 2008. In February 2017, Netflix released "Katherine Ryan: In Trouble" which features one of her live stand-up performances on a recent UK tour.
Comedy lounge katherine ryan on bbc radio 1 contains strong language
Early life
Ryan's father is a draftsman who originally emigrated from Ireland to Canada and who owns an engineering company, whilst her mother was born in Canada and owns an IT Consulting company. Ryan and her two younger sisters were born and raised in Sarnia, Ontario. The three siblings spent time in Cork, Ireland visiting their paternal grandparents.
Her parents split up when she was 15. When she was 18 years old, she decided to leave home and chose to study city planning at the University of Toronto. While attending university, she worked at Hooters and then began training other waitresses. In her spare time, she undertook open mic nights as an alternative form of personal entertainment and by graduation had developed a basic comedic routine.
Career
After graduation, Ryan continued working for Hooters as a corporate trainer, travelling around Canada to train other waitresses, and helping to open the only UK branch in Nottingham. Her partner at the time wanted to explore London, so she agreed to do so for an initial month from summer 2007, moving there permanently from January 2008.
As a comedian
Ryan first appeared on television on Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats in 2012. Soon after, she gained acting roles in Channel 4’s Campus. On 23 February 2013, she appeared as a celebrity contestant on BBC One's Let's Dance for Comic Relief as Nicki Minaj dancing to "Starships". Ryan reached the final, and finished in fourth place. Ryan was later featured on the Whitney Cummings Just for Laughs 2013 Gala that was taped before a live audience on 28 July 2013. She has since taken new routines to the Edinburgh Festival.
In 2015, Ryan replaced Steve Jones as the presenter of Hair on BBC Two. Also in 2015, Ryan became a panellist for Tinie Tempah's team on Sky 1's music/comedy panel show Bring the Noise and on the ITV2 show, Safeword. In 2016, Ryan appeared on series 2 of Taskmaster. She beat Doc Brown, Joe Wilkinson, Richard Osman and Jon Richardson, to win the entire series.
She also went on a comedy tour in 2016, called Kathbum. In February 2017, Netflix released "Katherine Ryan: In Trouble," featuring one of her stand-up comedy live performances on a recent UK tour.
She joined Jimmy Carr in 2017, to host two series of the reboot of Your Face or Mine?
Other work
Ryan wrote a weekly column in the British entertainment magazine NME.
Controversy
Ryan attracted press attention, controversy and "death threats" when she made a joke regarding cosmetic testing that was labelled racist; Ryan said “We don’t use any of our products on animals. We use Filipino children,” in a segment called “unlikely lines from a cosmetics commercial.” Ryan later defended her comment as a joke that was taken out of context on Twitter and also addressed it in her Netflix special.
Personal life
Ryan has a daughter, Violet, by an ex-boyfriend. She has faced two bouts of skin cancer. She and her daughter live in Crouch End, London.