Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a British actress, writer and producer. Her show, Fleabag, dominated the 2019 Emmys.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about her!
- Her full name is Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge
- She was born on 14 July 1985
- She is an English actress, playwright, 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, writer, and executive producer for the first season of the BBC America thriller series Killing Eve
- The show continues without her as a showrunner
- 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
- Waller-Bridge starred in the comedy series The Café (2011–2013)
- And the crime drama series Broadchurch (2015)
- She also appeared in such films as Albert Nobbs (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), and Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
And voiced 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)
- Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born in West London
- She is the daughter of Theresa Mary and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge
- Her father founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint
- While her mother works for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers
- The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex
- On her father’s side, she is also a descendant of The Rev. Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876
- Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire
- Waller-Bridge grew up in Ealing, London
- And has a younger brother named Jasper
- He is a music manager
- And an older sister named Isobel
- She is a composer
- She would later write the music for Fleabag
- 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 Marylebone, London
- She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London
- Waller-Bridge lives in Kensal Rise, London
- She married Irish presenter and documentary filmmaker Conor Woodman in 2014
- By 2017, the couple had separated and filed for divorce, which was finalised in 2018
- Since early 2018, Waller-Bridge has been in a relationship with English-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh
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