Catherine Shepherd
{{Short description|British actress}}
{{For|the Australian playwright|Catherine Shepherd (writer)}}
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Catherine Shepherd is an English{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/sally4ever/interview/catherine_shepherd/|title=Catherine Shepherd interview - Sally4Ever|date=22 October 2018|website=British Comedy Guide|accessdate=26 December 2018}} comedic actress, writer and director.{{cite web|url=https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/catherine-shepherd|title=Curtis Brown|website=www.curtisbrown.co.uk|accessdate=26 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150902191808/http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/catherine-shepherd|archive-date=2015-09-02|url-status=live}}
Career
In the early 2000s Shepherd appeared in several BBC Radio 4 comedies, as Daisy in the sitcom Think the Unthinkable{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/radio/think_the_unthinkable/about/|title=About Think The Unthinkable|website=British Comedy Guide|accessdate=26 December 2018}} alongside Marcus Brigstocke and David Mitchell, as Xanthe in Ring Around the Bath, and in James Cary's Radio 4 sketch show Concrete Cow, with Robert Webb.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0467vgf|title=Series 1, Concrete Cow - BBC Radio 4 Extra|website=BBC|accessdate=26 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828021835/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0467vgf|archive-date=2017-08-28|url-status=live}}
On television, she played the character April in the sitcom Peep Show.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/dec/16/tv-swansongs-the-final-peep-show-sex-city-sopranos|title=TV swansongs: the final Peep Show and the art of saying goodbye|first=Mark|last=Lawson|newspaper=The Guardian |authorlink=Mark Lawson|date=16 December 2015|accessdate=26 December 2018|via=www.theguardian.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127133537/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/dec/16/tv-swansongs-the-final-peep-show-sex-city-sopranos|archive-date=2019-01-27|url-status=live}} She appeared in one episode of the second series in 2004, and returned eleven years later as a recurring character in series 9.
She appeared as Jessica in The IT Crowd episode "The Dinner Party" (first broadcast 14 September 2007). She appeared in The Peter Serafinowicz Show which aired between 2007 and 2008, where she played multiple roles in the different sketches in the show.
In 2012, Shepherd appeared as Vicky Long in the final episode, "Loose Ends", of the BBC comedy show about the 2012 Olympic Games, Twenty Twelve (first broadcast 24 July 2012). In 2013, Shepherd narrated the audiobook Blue Sky Thinking by Ben Lewis.{{cite web|url=https://www.audible.in/pd/Blue-Sky-Thinking-Audiobook/1471363104|title=Blue Sky Thinking|publisher=|accessdate=26 December 2018|via=www.audible.in}} In October 2018, Shepherd played the title role in the HBO/Sky Atlantic sitcom Sally4Ever.
In 2019, she appeared alongside Lolly Adefope in the television short film Sorry, broadcast on BBC Two's Comedy Shorts programme.{{cite episode |title=Sorry |series=Comedy Shorts |date=28 Jul 2019 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07gy8jy |network=BBC Two}}
References
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External links
- {{British Comedy Guide|people|catherine_shepherd}}
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1343486/ Catherine Shepherd on IMDb]
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Category:21st-century English actresses
Category:21st-century English writers
Category:English radio actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:English television directors
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Category:British women television directors
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