Aisling Bea Wiki, Age, Net Worth, Height, Husband, Family, Partner, Podcast, Instagram
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Aisling Bea Biography – Aisling Bea Wiki
Aisling Bea (born Aisling Clíodhnadh O’Sullivan) is an Irish comedian, actress, and screenwriter. After graduating from drama school, she spent two years trying to get work in theatre as a dramatic actress. Instead, she was cast mainly in comedic television series including Cardinal Burns and Dead Boss (both 2012). While filming Dead Boss in 2011, she decided to try stand-up comedy. In 2012, she won The Gilded Balloon So You Think You’re Funny award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and, in 2013, was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her show C’est La Bea.
The exposure brought by these awards and festival appearances marked a “turning point” in her career and she began to appear as a regular guest on panel shows including QI and Insert Name Here. Bea and Yasmine Akram co-wrote and co-hosted the BBC Radio 4 comedy folklore series Micks and Legends (2012, 2015); it was nominated for a Chortle Award in 2013. She won the 2014 British Comedy Award for Best Female TV Comic and returned to Edinburgh in 2015 with the live show Plan Bea. In 2016, she became a team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats and was a cast member on Taskmaster in 2017. Bea has continued to act in television sitcoms including Trollied (2014–2015), The Delivery Man (2015), and Amy Huberman’s Irish television series Finding Joy (2018). Additionally, she has acted in the crime dramas The Fall (2016) and Hard Sun (2018). In 2018, she and Sara Pascoe began to co-host the BBC Radio 2 comedy chat show What’s Normal?[30] She recorded a 15-minute stand-up special that was aired on Netflix in late 2018.
She stars in the Netflix comedy-drama series Living with Yourself (2019–present) and is the star and head writer of the Channel 4 comedy series This Way Up (2019–present). She also featured in the ITV drama series Quiz (2020). For her work on This Way Up, she won the Bafta 2020 British Academy Television Craft Award for Breakthrough Talent. Since 2016, Bea has been a team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats, having previously been a guest on the show in 2013 and 2014. She has made guest appearances on many other panel shows, including Have I Got News for You (2021), QI (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), and Richard Osman’s House of Games (2020)among others.
While in her youthful years, she worked as a tour guide at the Irish National Stud but knew from a young age that she was not interested in the horse racing industry and instead loved performing. She was educated at Presentation Secondary School, Kildare Town, a Catholic school, and studied French and philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. While there, she was part of a student sketch comedy group. She then studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Aisling Bea Age
She was born on March 16, 1984 in Kildare, Ireland.
Aisling Bea Parents
She is the daughter of Helen O’Sullivan and Brian O’Sullivan. Her father, Brian, was a horse veterinarian who took his own life when Bea was three years old; she was not told how he had died until she was 13. She adopted the stage surname “Bea” as a tribute to her father, taking it from a short form of his first name. Bea and her younger sister, Sinead, were raised by their mother, Helen, a secondary school teacher who had previously been a horse jockey trainer and professional jockey.
