Bridget Christie

Bridget Louise Christie (born 17 August 1971) is an English stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She has written and performed comedy tours, in addition to radio and television work. She has been nominated for a BAFTA.

Christie grew up in Gloucester in the south-west of England, the youngest of nine siblings born to parents from the west of Ireland: her father, Peter Christie, was from Boyle in the north of County Roscommon, while her mother, Mary Anne (née Kelly), was from Manorhamilton in the north of County Leitrim. Her parents had met in London, before moving to Gloucestershire, when her father got a job with Wall's ice-cream. Two of her siblings later served in the RAF.

Christie attended St Peter's Roman Catholic High School in Gloucester, leaving at the age of 15 without qualifications. In 1994, she won a three-year scholarship to study drama at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) in Wandsworth, London.

Christie appeared in theatre productions and adverts before she began stand-up in 2004. She was one of the finalists in the Funny Women Awards that year, won by Zoe Lyons. She was described by the show's founder Lynne Parker as "one of the most influential funny women who has ever entered our competition".

Her debut BBC Radio 4 series, Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, was broadcast in April 2013. A second series was broadcast in January 2015, followed by a third, Bridget Christie's Utopia, in January 2018. The three series were well received and won the Best Radio award at the 2014 Chortle Awards and the 2014 Rose D'Or International Broadcasting Award.

Her debut book, A Book for Her, was published in July 2015 to acclaim from The Daily Telegraph and The List and The Observer. The paperback was released in February 2016 and the Spanish version in Barcelona in March 2017.

Christie has written for The Sunday Times, The Times, The Independent and The Observer. She had a weekly column in Guardian Weekend magazine from October 2015 to March 2016.

In 2015, she won a Red Magazine Women of the Year Award and a Marie Claire Women at the Top Award.