Bridget Christie
Bridget Christie is a human being. In 1994, she won a scholarship to study acting at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, so she did that for 3 years. Despite some early promise, her acting career never took off and after many humiliating castings for shit adverts and shit plays, she turned her mind to stand-up, where the humiliation continues to this day.
Between 2004 and 2013 Bridget gigged regularly and performed at the Edinburgh fringe festival. During this time she was nominated for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year (2005), won the inaugural Funny Women Best Show Fringe Award for her show The Court of King Charles II (2007) and was nominated for the Chortle Best Breakthrough Act (2009).
2013 was her breakthrough year. 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. It 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 follow-on show, An Ungrateful Woman, also sold out a 52 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 for Best Radio Comedy. It was also nominated for a Radio Academy Award 2014. A second series was broadcast in January 2015 and won a 2015 Chortle Award for Best Radio Programme, for the second year running.
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 performance on Have I Got News For You.
