Sally Phillips Biography
Sally Phillips is a comedian, actor, and television host from England. She co-created and wrote for the sketch comedy show Smack the Pony. Her credits include Jam & Jerusalem, Miranda, I’m Alan Partridge, Parents, Set the Thames on Fire, Zapped, and Veep. She also co-starred as Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and as Shazza in all three Bridget Jones films.
How old is Sally Phillips? – Age
She is 53 years 10 May 2022. She was born in 1970 in British Hong Kong. Her real name is Sally Elizabeth Phillips.
Who is Sally Phillips mother? – Family – Education
Phillips was born in Hong Kong, which was then under British control; her father, Tim, subsequently chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, was a British Airways executive. She grew up in the Far East, the Middle East, Italy, and Australia as a result of her father’s career. She was sent to Wycombe Abbey School, where she studied for both O-Levels and A-Levels when she was 13 years old.
She studied Italian and linguistics at New College, Oxford, and then joined the Oxford Revue, where she primarily played male roles. She then co-wrote and performed Benadetta, the Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, a one-woman performance, and appeared in the 1990 Oxford Revue THRASH. She applied to do a Ph.D. on the Spaghetti Western after graduating with honors but changed her mind and instead studied acting with the Théâtre de Complicité.
Who is Sally Phillips Husband? – Does Sally Phillips have a child?
She appeared on Mel Giedroyc’s Unforgivable TV show in March 2022 and detailed a two-year romance with Richard Herring in her early twenties. Phillips is a devout Christian. She was married to Andrew Bermejo for 14 years and they had three sons, one of whom has Down syndrome. In 2017, the couple divorced.
Sally Phillips Downs Syndrome – Illness
She said that the disease caused a brain infection, forcing her body to become a “micro-brewery” and cause neurological problems. Her rehabilitation took several months.
Sally Phillips Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Sally Phillips Taskmaster
In 2017, she competed in Taskmaster Series 5 against Bob Mortimer, Aisling Bea, Nish Kumar, and Mark Watson, finishing second to eventual winner Mortimer. Taskmaster is a British comedic panel game show produced and hosted by comedian and musician Alex Horne and Greg Davies. Five celebrities compete in a series of challenges, with Horne serving as umpire and Davies, the eponymous “Taskmaster,” grading the work and assigning points depending on candidates’ performances. Horne developed the concept for the show for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010, and it was later adapted for television, with the first episode showing in 2015. Channel 4 purchased the show after the ninth season in 2019.
Sally Phillips BBC1
She made her BBC1 debut in the David Nicholls programme Rescue Me in 2001. She also appeared in Mean Machine, Birthday Girl, and Born Romantic, as well as writing episodes for the animated series Bob and Margaret.
She landed the lead part in the BBC radio sitcom Clare in the Community in 2004, which ended after 74 episodes in 2019. After a long layoff, she returned to the stage in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the Oxford Playhouse in August 2005. She starred in the Australian comedy flick BoyTown in 2006, and she played Clare Winchester in the BBC2 science fiction comedy Hyperdrive. She starred in the BBC1 program Accidental Farmer in December 2010.
Sally Phillips Career
Phillips performed at nine continuous Edinburgh Periphery Celebrations, showing up in shows including Ra-Rasputin, Arthur Smith’s form of Hamlet (as Ophelia), and Cluub Zarathustra with Simon Munnery, Stewart Lee, Richard Thomas, Julian Barratt and Lori Lixenburg.
In 1994, she appeared in Lee and Herring’s Fist of Fun, followed shortly thereafter by a cameo in Mel Smith’s Alas Smith and Jones. In 1995, Phillips assumed the part of a correspondent in the unbroadcast pilot of Chris Morris’ satire series Metal Eye, which by then was called Force Television, yet she didn’t show up in the actual series. Six actors in Six Pairs of Pants created a number of regular sketches that developed throughout the series.
The show was written in part by Phillips, Jessica Hynes, Simon Pegg, Neil Mullarkey, Katy Carmichael, and Simon Schatzberger, in addition to Phillips. The group as “Flatmates” and a variety of spoof horror trailers were among the regular sketches, as were two New Zealand characters who had moved to the UK and worked behind various bars. In 1997’s I’m Alan Partridge, Phillips played a “Travel Tavern” receptionist and Laura in Holding the Baby. In the television series In the Red, she was the radio DJ Gemma White.
Phillips had a featuring job in the fleeting 1999 English satire series Radicals with Simon Pegg and Julian Rhind-Tutt, and furthermore co-made and composed Smack the Horse, a twofold Emmy Grant winning parody show, for which she was selected for a best female novice at the 1999 English Parody Grants. Additionally, Phillips was part of Eddie Izzard’s sitcom Cows. Phillips played Tilly in Miranda in 2009, the irritated upper-class friend of Miranda Hart’s character. The series made basic progress and Phillips stayed a piece of the show all through its length, from 2009 to 2015.
She also appeared as Pandora’s mother as a guest star on E4’s Skins, series 3. In 2009, Phillips won an English Film Board screenwriting contest for her film Fag Mountain. The Decoy Bride, her first script for a feature film, began production in the spring of 2010. Phillips played a Hollywood assistant named Emma in the film in a supporting role. The movie came out in February 2012, first showing on cable television and as a digital download before getting a limited run in theaters.
She produced two episodes of Series 3 of Dave’s comedy-maths show Dara Briain: In 2014, she participated in School of Hard Sums, where she faced a variety of math-based physical challenges. In America, Phillips has shown up in the HBO satire series Veep as Minna Häkkinen, an imaginary Finnish state leader.
She narrated the first season of The Supervet, which aired on Channel 4 in 2014. Phillips appeared in a number of television shows in 2015, most notably House of Fools and Death in Paradise. She has also played the lead role of Ingrid in the comedy Burn Burn Burn and the television movie Distinguished Ladies, in which she plays Bianca. Phillips played Mrs. Bennet in the 2016 film Pride and Prejudice and the Zombies, and she played Shazza in the film Bridget Jones’s Baby.
Sally Phillips Movies
♦ 2022 – How to Please a Woman
♦ 2021 – Off the Rails
♦ 2019 – The Rizen: Possession
♦ 2019 – Blinded by the Light
♦ 2018 – The More You Ignore Me
♦ 2018 – Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
♦ 2017 – Ferdinand
♦ 2017 – You, Me and Him
♦ 2016 – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
♦ 2016 – Bridget Jones’s Baby
♦ 2016 – The Rizen
♦ 2015 – Set the Thames on Fire
♦ 2011 – The Decoy Bride
♦ 2006 – BoyTown
Sally Phillips TV Shows
♦ 2022 – My Life at Christmas with Sally Phillips
♦ 2021 – Meet the Richardsons
♦ 2020 – Friday Night Dinner
♦ 2020 – Sunday Morning Live
♦ 2019 – Archibald’s Next Big Thing
♦ 2019 – Year of the Rabbit
♦ 2018–2019 – Tourist Trap
♦ 2018 – Trollied
♦ 2018 – The One Show
♦ 2018 – QI
♦ 2018 – Vanity Fair
♦ 2017 – Lip Sync Battle UK
♦ 2017 – Comic Relief
♦ 2017 – Henry IX
♦ 2017 – Hospital People