Phoebe Waller-Bridge

At 38 years old, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has this physical status:

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born 14 July 1985) is an English actress, producer, and writer.

She created, wrote, and starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Crashing (2016) and the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016–2019).

She was also the showrunner and executive producer for the first series of the BBC America thriller series Killing Eve (2018–present). For Fleabag, she received the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, as well as three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Comedy Series.

Both Fleabag and Killing Eve have been named among the greatest television series of the 21st century by The Guardian.Waller-Bridge starred in the comedy series The Café (2011–2013) and the crime drama series Broadchurch (2015).

She also appeared in films, including Albert Nobbs (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), and Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), and played the droid L3-37 in the Star Wars anthology prequel Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).

She co-wrote the screenplay for the 25th James Bond film, titled No Time to Die (2020).

Early life

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born in Hammersmith, London, on 14 July 1985, the daughter of Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge, founder of the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, and Theresa Mary, daughter of Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th Baronet, employed by the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. The Bridge, later Waller-Bridge, family were soldiers and clergymen, who came to rank among the landed gentry of Cuckfield in Sussex. Her grandfather, Cyprian Waller-Bridge (1918-1960), "a Wodehousian sort of character... 'the eccentric son of an eccentric vicar'", was an actor and BBC announcer. On her father's side, she is a descendant of the Revd Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, and a distant relative of politician and author Egerton Leigh, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876.

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 named Jasper Waller-Bridge. Her parents are divorced. 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. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Personal life

Waller-Bridge lives in the Shoreditch area of London. She married Irish presenter and documentary filmmaker Conor Woodman in 2014. By 2017, they had separated and filed for divorce. Since early 2018, she has been in a relationship with playwright Martin McDonagh.

Waller-Bridge describes herself as an atheist, although she says she "hopped around a bit from religion to religion" while growing up. She avoids social media, stating in a 2019 interview that she "would feel pressure to be funny the whole time" and that she did not feel confident enough to deal with the negative comments that come with social media use.

Waller-Bridge has two siblings: Jasper Waller-Bridge and composer/musician Isobel Waller-Bridge.

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Career

In 2007, Waller-Bridge's first appearance credits began in theatre. Vicky Jones and others co-founded the DryWrite Theatre Company at the time. They are co-artistic directors of the company. Both women met and became friends while doing theatre performances. Roaring Trade at Soho Theatre and Rope at the Almeida Theatre is one of her acting theatre credits. In 2011 and 2012, she appeared in a Nol Coward's Hay Fever production, as well as Mydidae. Waller-Bridge wrote and appeared in Fleabag, which she first performed as part of the London Storytelling Festival on November 25, 2012. In 2013, Fleabag's first complete version premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Good is her short plays collection. She wrote the script Good. Clean. It's amusing. Between 2013 and 2019, Waller-Bridge returned to the stage for additional Fleabag productions.

Waller-Bridge began her screen career in 2009, appearing in short films and in individual episodes of television sitcoms and dramas. The Night Watch, as well as Bad Education and Coming Up in 2013 and Blandings in 2014 were among her early television appearances. She appeared in The Café from 2011 to 2013, and in the second series of Broadchurch in 2015. Albert Nobbs and The Iron Lady were her first feature length theatrical film roles in 2011. Emma Fennell, to whom she would later give up showrunner duties for Killing Eve, had her role in Albert Nobbs.

Waller-Bridge has appeared in several BBC Radio shows, including 2013's Vincent Price and the Horror of the English Blood Beast, in which she played actress Hillary Dwyer, and a 2014 adaptation of an Agatha Christie tale. She has appeared in short films, including a 2015 television documentary on dating apps and a 2016 Christmas themed animated short film. She has appeared in advertisements for companies including The Cotswold Company, Warburtons, Gordon's Gin, Trainline, Kuoni Travel, and Tropicana.

In 2016, she wrote and starred in Channel 4's Crashing, about a group of twenty-somethings who were living in an abandoned hospital under the property guardianship scheme. After airing in the United Kingdom, it began streaming on Netflix, with W Magazine naming it Waller-Bridge's "twisted take on Friends." The show's six episodes were described by GQ Magazine as: "perfect little whirlwinds of comedy building to a massive maelstrom in which everybody falls to pieces; some are better off for it and some aren't. You'll have a great time no matter where the chips fall.

Fleabag was first broadcast on BBC Two from August 2016, when it was first announced on BBC Three. In September 2016, Amazon Video's on-demand Amazon Video subscription service took it to the United States, where it debuted in the United States. She received the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in a Comedy Series as a result of her appearance in the series, and was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. In 2019, Fleabag's second and final series debuted. For the second series, Waller-Bridge received Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Comedy Series.

In the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), she appeared and appeared in droid L3-37.

Waller-Bridge wrote and produced the thriller television series Killing Eve, which was based on Luke Jennings' novels. She was also the showrunner for season 1. Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, two actresses, appear in the BBC America series and premiered in April 2018 to critical acclaim. She has been nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series for her work on the series, as well as a writer.

In March 2019, HBO ordered Run, which was executive produced by Waller-Bridge and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever in lead roles. Waller-Bridge was also in the series as the character Laurel. After one season, it was cancelled.

In 2019, Waller-Bridge co-wrote the screenplay for No Time to Die (1921), the 25th James Bond film, along with Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Cary Joji Fukunaga. According to the article, she was sent to write "more humour and the offbeat style of writing she is best known for."

Waller-Bridge recurred in season 2 of the television series His Dark Materials, where she appeared on Sayan Kötör. Phoebe Bridgers' music video "Savior Complex" was also directed by her. Waller-Bridge appeared in Harry Styles' music video "Today People with Kindness," which premiered on January 20, 2021.

She was supposed to co-star with Donald Glover in a television adaptation of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2005, and she was in part of an untitled Indiana Jones film that will be published in 2023. Waller-Bridge had resigned from Amazon's Mr. and Mrs. Smith reboot story in September 2021 due to creative inconsistencies.

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