Name Phoebe Waller-Bridge Role Actress | Siblings Isobel Waller-Bridge | |
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Awards Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright Movies The Iron Lady, Man Up, Albert Nobbs, Meconium Similar People Phyllida Lloyd, Ben Palmer, Rodrigo Garcia, Daryl Roth |
Phoebe waller bridge on fleabag at the soho theatre
Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born 14 July 1985) is an English actress, writer, playwright and director, active on stage and on television.
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- Early life
- Education
- Career
- Personal life
- Theatre
- Awards
- Works and publications
- Filmography
- References
Phoebe waller bridge wins female performance in a comedy bafta tv awards 2017
Early life

Waller-Bridge was born in West London, the daughter of Michael Waller-Bridge and Teresa Waller-Bridge (née Clerke). She grew up in Ealing in West London, and has a younger brother, Jasper Waller-Bridge, who is a music manager, and an older sister, Isobel Waller-Bridge, who is a composer and did the music for Fleabag. Her parents are divorced.
Education
Waller-Bridge was educated at St Augustine's Priory, a Catholic independent school for girls in the London Borough of Ealing, followed by the independent sixth form college DLD College London in Marylebone, London. Previously accepted at Trinity College, Dublin, where she planned on studying English, Waller-Bridge graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Career

In 2009, Waller-Bridge made her acting debut in the play Roaring Trade at Soho Theatre.

Waller-Bridge appeared in the second season of drama Broadchurch.

In addition to acting, Waller-Bridge is a playwright. Her work includes the series of plays Good. Clean. Fun., and Fleabag.
In 2013, Waller-Bridge starred in one episode of Bad Education as "India"
In 2016, Waller-Bridge wrote and starred in two sitcoms, Channel 4's Crashing and BBC Three's adaptation of Fleabag.
Following its initial release on BBC Three, Fleabag was broadcast on BBC Two starting in August 2016. It was picked up by the on-demand Amazon Video service and premiered in the United States in September 2016.
Waller-Bridge is the co-artistic director, with Vicky Jones, of DryWrite Theatre Company. The two met and became friends while working on a theatre productions.
In early 2017, it was announced that Waller-Bridge will appear in the currently untitled Han Solo film.
In August, 2017, Waller-Bridge and BBC announced that a second season of Fleabag would return in 2019.
Personal life
Waller-Bridge lives in Kensal Rise, London, with her husband, presenter and documentary filmmaker Conor Woodman.