Biographic - Sunday September 15, 2019 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge was born into a fairly affulent family in London on July 14, 1985. She trained at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but struggled to find acting work after graduating in 2006. In 2007, she found a small theater company with her friend, director Vicky Jones, and began staging a monthly evening in a tiny room above a pub in East London. She gradually began to find TV and film work, her credits including minor roles on a handful of british tv shows and such movies as the Glenn Close drama "Albert Nobbs" and "The Iron Lady" in which she played the secretary of Margaret Thatcher, played by Meryl Streep. She eventually landed recurring roles in the sitcom "The Cafe" and the drama series "Broadchurch." In 2012, she wrote and performed at 10-minute piece for a London comedy festival. She developed that scene into a one-woman show, directed by Vicky Jones, which became the toast of The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and had networks scrambling to commission a tv series. Funny, candid and daring "Fleabag" was an immediate hit when when it debuted in the BBC and Amazon Prime in 2016. The second season was even more successful, earning rave reviews and legions of admirers and devoted fans on both sides of The Atlantic. Having written and starred in the 2016 U.K tv series "Crashing" Phoebe wrote and developed the thriller series "Killing Eve" and served as showrunner on the first season. The show has been a huge success and has been renewed for a third season. Having voiced and performed Droid L3-37 in "Solo: A Star Wars Story," Phoebe was also commissioned to contribute to the screenplay of the upcoming James Bond movie, the 25th installment of the 007 franchise. Phoebe's meteoric rise to mainstream U.S. success was underscored when "Fleabag" received 11 Emmy nominations and "Killing Eve" picked up nine!

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