Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born July 14, 1985 in London ) is a British actress , playwright and screenwriter .
Life
Phoebe Waller-Bridge was born in 1985 in London to Teresa Mary Waller-Bridge (née Clerke) and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge. She has an older sister named Isobel Waller-Bridge (* 1984), who works as a composer, and a younger brother (* 1987). Waller Bridge grew up in the West London borough of Ealing . She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art .
In 2007 she founded the DryWrite Theater Company with Vicky Jones, of which she is co-artistic director.
Waller-Bridge made her theatrical debut in 2009 in Roaring Trade at the Soho Theater. In the same year she had her first role in the television series Doctors . In 2011 she had minor supporting roles in the films Albert Nobbs and Die Eiserne Lady . She made her West End debut in the play Hay Fever , before her final breakthrough in the theater with her role in Mydidae . From 2011 to 2013 Waller-Bridge was seen in the television series The Cafe . Her theater group DryWrite , which she co-directs and for which she has written plays such as Fleabag as a playwright , has been an Associate Company of the Soho Theater since 2013 .
2015 followed a role in the series Broadchurch . The following year she appeared in the two comedy series Crashing and Fleabag , for which she had also written the scripts. The latter was based on their play of the same name. Waller-Bridge has received numerous awards for Fleabag , including the 2017 British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, the British Screenwriters' Award and the Acting Award of the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo (2017). In 2019, Fleabag was awarded six Emmys , including best comedy series and Waller-Bridge as leading actress and screenwriter.
For the film James Bond 007: No Time to Die , she was recommended by lead actor Daniel Craig as a screenwriter and was primarily responsible for the dialogues of the female roles. Her share of the script was later increased and she herself reportedly hired as a screenwriter for the still untitled 26th James Bond film.
She was married to documentary filmmaker and television presenter Conor Woodman from 2014 to 2018 . She has been in a relationship with the playwright Martin McDonagh since spring 2018 . Waller-Bridge lives in the Kensal Rise district of London .
Filmography (selection)
actress
- 2009: Doctors (TV series, 1 episode)
- 2010: How Not to Live Your Life - Volle Pichtung ( How Not to Live Your Life , TV series, 1 episode)
- 2011: The Night Watch (TV movie)
- 2011: Albert Nobbs
- 2011: Die Eiserne Lady (The Iron Lady)
- 2011–2013: The Cafe (TV series, 13 episodes)
- 2013: Bad Education (TV series, 1 episode)
- 2014: Glue (miniseries, 2 episodes)
- 2015: Broadchurch (TV series, 8 episodes)
- 2015: It's complicated ..! (Man Up)
- 2015: Flack (TV movie)
- 2016: Crashing (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 2016-2019: Fleabag (TV series, 12 episodes)
- 2017: Goodbye Christopher Robin
- 2018: Solo: A Star Wars Story
script
- 2016: Crashing (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 2016-2019: Fleabag (TV series, 12 episodes)
- 2018: Killing Eve (TV series, 4 episodes)
Theater (selection)
- 2009: Roaring Trade (Soho Theater)
- 2009: 2nd May 1997 (The Bush Theater)
- 2009: Rope (Almeida Theater)
- 2010: Like A Fishbone (The Bush Theater)
- 2010: Tribes (Royal Court Theater)
- 2011: Hay Fever (Noël Coward Theater)
- 2012: Mydidae (Soho Theater / Trafalgar Studios)
- 2013: Fleabag (Soho Theater)
- 2013: The One (Soho Theater)
Awards and nominations (selection)
Emmys
- 2018 : Nomination in the category “Best Screenplay in a Drama Series” for Killing Eve
- 2019 : Best Actress - Comedy Series for Fleabag
- 2019: Best script in a comedy series for Fleabag
Golden Globe Awards
- 2020 : Best Actress in a Series - Comedy / Musical for Fleabag
Critics' Choice Television Awards
- 2016 : Nomination in the category “Best Actress in a Comedy Series ” for Fleabag
- 2020 : Best Actress in a Comedy Series for Fleabag
British Academy Television Awards
- 2017: Best female comedy for Fleabag
- 2020: Nomination in the category “Best Female Comedy Achievement” for Fleabag
Other awards
- 2013: Critics' Circle Theater Award : Most Promising Writer for Fleabag
- 2019 : Satellite Award : Best Actress in a Series - Comedy / Musical for Fleabag
Web links
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Teresa Mary Clerke. In: thepeerage.com, accessed April 8, 2017.
- ↑ a b Elizabeth Day: Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge on female anger, emotional honesty -and fancying Barack Obama. In: The Daily Telegraph , July 7, 2016.
- ↑ a b Veronica Lee: Horn star: Phoebe Waller-Bridge on her one-woman show Fleabag. In: Evening Standard , August 9, 2013.
- ↑ Charlotte Marshall: Introducing ... Phoebe Waller-Bridge. In: officiallondontheatre.co.uk, February 14, 2012.
- ^ "DryWrite and Soho Theater present Fleabag - Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge" , accessed September 24, 2019
- ↑ Natasha Sutton-Williams: A Day In The Life Of: Dry Write Theater Company. In: londoncalling.com, February 18, 2014.
- ^ DryWrite ( Memento from October 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . In: sohotheatre.com, accessed April 8, 2017.
- ↑ Fleabag ( Memento from August 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: sohotheatre.com, accessed April 8, 2017.
- ↑ Baz Bambigboye: Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge being wooed to help write Bond film. In: Daily Mail . September 27, 2019, accessed June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Elizabeth Logan: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Her Husband Are Divorcing. Accessed August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Gabriel Tate: Crashing, Channel 4 interview: writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge on her new sitcom about property guardians living in a London hospital. In: Evening Standard , January 7, 2016.
- ↑ 2020 Critics' Choice Awards: See the Winners List | TV guide. January 12, 2020, accessed on August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Television Awards Winners 2017. April 11, 2017, accessed on August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Guardian TV: Bafta TV awards 2020: full list of winners . In: The Guardian . July 31, 2020, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed August 3, 2020]).
- ↑ 2019 Winners | International Press Academy. Retrieved August 3, 2020 (American English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waller Bridge, Phoebe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waller-Bridge, Phoebe Mary (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actress, playwright and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , UK |