Phoebe Waller-Bridge trivia: 35 facts about the British actress and writer

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!

1. Her full name is Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge
2. She was born on 14 July 1985
3. She is an English actress, playwright, producer, and writer
4. She created, wrote, and starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Crashing (2016)
5. And the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016–2019)
6. She was also the showrunner, writer, and executive producer for the first season of the BBC America thriller series Killing Eve
7. The show continues without her as a showrunner
8. For Fleabag, she received the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance
9. 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
10. Waller-Bridge starred in the comedy series The Café (2011–2013)
11. And the crime drama series Broadchurch (2015)
12. 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)
13. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 25th James Bond film, titled No Time to Die (2020)
14. Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born in West London
15. She is the daughter of Theresa Mary and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge
16. Her father founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint
17. While her mother works for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers
18. The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex
19. 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
20. Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire
21. Waller-Bridge grew up in Ealing, London
22. And has a younger brother named Jasper
23. He is a music manager
24. And an older sister named Isobel
25. She is a composer
26. She would later write the music for Fleabag
27. Her parents are divorced
28. She was educated at St Augustine’s Priory
29. A Catholic independent school for girls
30. Followed by the independent sixth form college DLD College London in Marylebone, London
31. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London
32. Waller-Bridge lives in Kensal Rise, London
33. She married Irish presenter and documentary filmmaker Conor Woodman in 2014
34. By 2017, the couple had separated and filed for divorce, which was finalised in 2018
35. Since early 2018, Waller-Bridge has been in a relationship with English-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh