Bridget Christie is a female person. She won a scholarship to study acting at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in Wandsworth, so she did that for 3 years.
It didn’t really get her anywhere so she gave up on trying to get casting directors to like her and in 2004 turned her face to stand-up.
She was a finalist in Funny Women 2004, was nominated for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2005, won the inaugural Funny Women Best Show Fringe Award 2007 for her show The Court of King Charles II and was nominated for the Chortle Best Breakthrough Act 2009.
In 2013 she won the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show with her show A BIC FOR HER. The show also won the 2014 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Best Comedy, the 2014 Chortle Award for Best Show and a 2014 Hospital 100 Club Award for Performance and Theatre.
A BIC FOR HER was a total sell out in Edinburgh and became the top selling comedy show at Soho Theatre ever, selling out every night of its 54 night run.
Her debut BBC Radio 4 series, BRIDGET CHRISTIE MINDS THE GAP was broadcast in April 2013. It won Best Radio at the 2014 Chortle Awards and a prestigious 2014 Rose D’Or International Broadcasting Award. It was also nominated for a Radio Academy Award 2014, but she lost out and was told by the winner on the night that she shouldn’t have won anyway, as it was only her first series. Her second series was broadcast in January 2015 and and also won a 2015 Chortle Award for Best Radio. Her 2014 tour, a double bill of A Bic for Her and An Ungrateful Woman, won the 2015 Chortle Award for Best Tour.
She was also nominated for a 2014 British Comedy Award for Best Female TV comic for her one performance on television in 2014, Have I Got News For You.
Her first book, A BOOK FOR HER will be published in 2015. Bridget also writes for The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent and various publications when she has time.
She has appeared in several TV and radio comedy shows, including BBC One's The Omid Djalili Show, E4's Cardinal Burns, Harry Hill's Little Cracker (Sky), Anna and Katy (Channel Four), It’s Kevin (BBC2), Have I Got News For You (BBC One), The Culture Show(BBC Two), The Alternative Comedy Experience (Comedy Central), Series 1 and 2, Mel & Sue (ITV) and Celebrity Squares (ITV). She doesn’t really like doing telly though and tries to avoid it.
BBC Radio 4 shows include The Broadcasting House Programme, Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium, The News Quiz, Miranda Hart's House Party, It's Your Round, Sarah Millican's Support Group (Series 2), Loose Ends, The Fred MacAulay Show, Dan Tetsell's The 21st Century for Time Travellers, The Now Show, Heresy, Kerry’s List, It’s Not What You Know, The Unbelievable Truth, Dilemma and French and Saunders’ Christmas Show. She has also presented Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club.
Podcasts include Danielle Ward's Do The Right Thing, Richard Herring’s Podcast and Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown.
She has written and performed 9 critically acclaimed consecutive solo Edinburgh Festival shows, The Cheese Roll, The Court of King Charles II, The Court of King Charles II - The Second, My Daily Mail Hell, A Ant, Housewife Surrealist, War Donkey, ABic for Her and An Ungrateful Woman.
Her shows have been comedy picks and critics choice in every major newspaper except The Sun, whose TV critic Ally Ross called her “an unfunny woman”.
Bridget can also be seen in Harry Hill's Little Internet Show as an ant, and also as a person on a beach, shouting.
She gigs all over the place to varying degrees of success.
Bridget enjoys trying on waterproof jackets in shops, shouting about misogyny and eating. She also has a cat and two children, who all seem to be doing fine. She has a bicycle and a tree. www.bridgetchristie.co.uk