Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born on 14 July 1985,[5] in West London, the daughter of Theresa Mary (née Clerke) and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge.[6] Her father founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, while her mother works for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.[7][8][9] The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex.[10][11] 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.[12][13] Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire.[14] Waller-Bridge grew up in Ealing, London,[15][16] and has a younger brother named Jasper, a music manager, and an older sister named Isobel Waller-Bridge, a composer who wrote the music for Fleabag.[17][18] Her parents are divorced.[19] She was educated at St Augustine's Priory, a Catholic independent school for girls,[20] followed by the independent sixth form college DLD College London in Marylebone, London.[21] She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.[22]

In 2009, Waller-Bridge made her acting debut in the play Roaring Trade at Soho Theatre.[23] In 2013, Waller-Bridge appeared in one episode of Bad Education as "India". She appeared in the second series of drama Broadchurch in 2015.

In addition to acting, Waller-Bridge is a playwright. Her work includes the series of plays Good. Clean. Fun.[24] In 2016, Waller-Bridge wrote and starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Crashing and BBC Three's adaptation of Fleabag.[25][26]

After its initial release on BBC Three, Fleabag was broadcast on BBC Two from August 2016. It was picked up by the on-demand Amazon Video service and premiered in the United States in September 2016.[27][28] For her performance in the series she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance and was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Fleabag's second and final series aired in 2019. 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.[29][30]

Waller-Bridge is the co-artistic director, with Vicky Jones,[7] of DryWrite Theatre Company.[31][32][33] The two met and became friends while working on theatre productions.[34]

Waller-Bridge voiced and performed droid L3-37 in the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).[35][36]

Waller-Bridge wrote and produced the thriller television series Killing Eve based on novels by Luke Jennings.[37] The BBC America series stars Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer and premiered in April 2018.[38] For her work on the script, she received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.

In March 2019, HBO ordered the series Run, which is executive-produced by Waller-Bridge and stars Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever in lead roles.[39] Waller-Bridge also features in the series with a recurring role as the character Flick.[40]

In 2019, Waller-Bridge co-wrote the screenplay for No Time to Die (2020), the 25th James Bond film, along with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.[41][42]

Waller-Bridge lives in Kensal Rise, London. She married Irish presenter and documentary filmmaker Conor Woodman in 2014.[16] By 2017, the couple had separated and filed for divorce, which was finalised in 2018.[43] Since early 2018, Waller-Bridge has been in a relationship with English-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.[7] She describes herself as an atheist, although she "hopped around a bit from religion to religion" while growing up in London.[44]

• Waller-Bridge, Phoebe (1 January 2013). Fleabag. London: Nick Hern Books. ISBN 978-1-84-842364-0. OCLC 894546593.

• Phoebe Waller-Bridge on IMDb 
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge's 'Fleabag' is NOT Autobiographical! on YouTube