Aisling Bea

At 40 years old, Aisling Bea has this physical status:

Aisling Cliodh O'Sullivan (born 16 March 1984), better known as Aisling Bea, is an Irish actor, writer, and comedian. Bea began her career as a stand-up comedian in 2011 after appearing in bits in several Irish and British television shows from 2009.

She was regularly appearing on sketch comedy shows and sitcoms by 2012.

She began to be booked regularly for various panel shows after winning an award at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, where she has remained a fixture.

She was a team captain on 8 out of 10 Cats from 2016 to 2017, and she has appeared on the spinoff 8 Out of ten Cats Does Countdown. Bea co-starred on her Irish television series Finding Joy in 2018.

Since 2019, she has appeared on Netflix's comedy drama series Living with Yourself and the Channel 4 comedy series This Way Up, in which she also serves as a head writer.

Early life and education

Bea was born in Kildare, Ireland. Bea's father, Brian, died by suicide when she was three years old; she wasn't told how she died until she was 13. She adopted the stage surname "Bea" in honor of her father, taking it from a short form of his first name. Helen (née Moloney), a secondary school coach who had previously trained jockeys at the Racing Academy and Centre of Education, raised Bea and her younger sister Sinéad. With horses and race meetings, her family was "obsessed." Bea spent her youth as a tour guide at the Irish National Stud but discovered early on that she was not interested in horse racing and instead loved performing. Siobhán N. Shhilieabháin, a playwright, was her grandmother, and Liam O'Flynn, a family friend, was a mentor.

Bea was educated at Presentation Secondary School, Kildare Town, a Catholic academy, and at Trinity College Dublin, France and philosophy. She was a member of a student sketch comedy group while she was on campus. She then attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

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Career

Bea spent two years as a dramatic actress after graduating from drama school. Rather, she appeared in comedic television series including Cardinal Burns and Dead Boss (both 2012). Bea decided to try stand-up comedy while filming Dead Boss in 2011. She received the Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012, and C'est La Bea received the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2013.

Bea's career came to a "turning point" in her career, and she began to appear as a regular guest on panel shows including QI and Insert Name Here. Micks and Legends, a BBC Radio 4 comedy folklore collection, was co-written and co-hosted by Bea and Yasmine Akram (2012, 2015); it was nominated for a Chortle Award in 2013. Bea was named Best Female TV Comedy in the 2014 British Comedy Award and returned to Edinburgh in 2015 with the live show Plan Bea. She became a team captain on 8 out of ten Cats in 2016 and was a cast member on Taskmaster in 2017.

Bea has continued to perform in television sitcoms like Trollied (2014–2015), The Delivery Man (2015), and Amy Huberman's Irish television series Finding Joy (2018). In addition, she has appeared in The Fall (2016) and Hard Sun (2018) crime dramas. What's Normal? co-host Sara Pascoe and Sara Pascoe started co-hosting the BBC Radio 2 comedy chat show What's Normal? In late 2018, she produced a 15-minute stand-up special that aired on Netflix.

She appears in the Netflix comedy-drama series Living with Yourself (2019), and she is the co-creator and head writer of Channel 4's comedy series This Way Up (2019–present). She appeared in the ITV drama series Quiz (2020).

Bea received the Bafta 2020 British Academy Television Craft Award for Outstanding Achievement for her role on This Way Up.

Sarah appeared in "Eve of the Daleks," a 2022 Doctor Who New Year tribute.

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