Her early television appearances include the 2011 film The Night Watch, as well as Bad Education and Coming Up in 2013 and Blandings in 2014. Waller-Bridge began her screen career in 2009, playing roles in short films and in individual episodes of television sitcoms and dramas. Waller-Bridge returned to the stage for further productions of Fleabag between 20. She later wrote the short plays production Good.
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The first full version of Fleabag premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013. Waller-Bridge then wrote and starred in Fleabag, which she first performed as part of the London Storytelling Festival on 25 November 2012. She performed in a production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever in 2011 and Mydidae in 2012. Among her acting theatre credits are the 2009 productions Roaring Trade at Soho Theatre and Rope at the Almeida Theatre. The two women met and became friends while working on theatre productions. They are co-artistic directors of the company. At that time, she co-founded the DryWrite Theatre Company with Vicky Jones. Waller-Bridge's performing credits begin in theatre in 2007. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She was educated at St Augustine's Priory, a Catholic independent school for girls, followed by the independent sixth form college DLD College London in the Marylebone area of London. Waller-Bridge grew up in London's Ealing district, and has two siblings: an older sister named Isobel Waller-Bridge, a composer with whom she has collaborated, and a younger brother. Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th Baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire. On her father's side, she is also a descendant of Egerton Leigh, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876. The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield in Sussex. Her father founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, while her mother works for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born in West London on 14 July 1985, the daughter of Theresa Mary Waller-Bridge (née Clerke) and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge. Waller-Bridge also contributed to the screenplay of the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021). She has appeared in films such as Albert Nobbs (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), and as 元-37 in the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).
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She appeared in the comedy series The Café (2011–2013) and the second series of crime drama series Broadchurch (2015). Waller-Bridge created, wrote and starred in the 2016 Channel 4 comedy series Crashing. įor Fleabag, Waller-Bridge received the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, three Emmy Awards ( Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Comedy Series), and two Golden Globe Awards ( Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020. Both Fleabag and Killing Eve are highly acclaimed and have been named among the 100 greatest television series of the 21st century by The Guardian, with the former ranked at No. She was showrunner, head writer and executive producer for the first series of Killing Eve (2018–present), which she adapted for television. She is best known as the creator, head writer, and star of the BBC situation comedy series Fleabag (2016–2019), which was based on her play of the same name. Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born 14 July 1985) is an English actress, writer, comedian and television producer.