Lizzie Roper

Trained at the Guildford School of Acting after gaining a degree in drama from Aberystwyth University. Lizzie fell into Comedy whilst performing with Lenny Beige at The Regency Rooms as Sadie Beige -The Kosher chicken Giblet Queen of Whitechapel, Naomi Beige and Rita Poonarni-a brash Spanish singer with a penchant for Shirley Bassey numbers. In the late 1990s Roper also Performed stand Up and regularly hosted her own club, 'Loonatics at the Asylum' on Rathbone Place W1 as well as regular appearances on the Edinburgh Fringe. Her first major TV role was in The Worst Week of My Life playing Trish in 2004. In the same year, Roper appeared alongside Christian Slater in the West End production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.{{cite web |url=http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/hollyoaks/news/lizzie-roper-christian-slater-was-one-of-the-first-to-congratulate-me-on-hollyoaks |title=Lizzie Roper: Christian Slater was one of the first to congratulate me on Hollyoaks role|work=Whatsontv.co.uk |date=5 May 2014 |access-date=25 April 2016}} In 2005 Roper was performing at the Edinburgh Festival With Alan Davies and Bill Bailey in The Odd Couple. In 2006, Roper devised and appeared in her second solo show, Peccadillo Circus at the Edinburgh Festival. It garnered a nomination for The Stage's Best solo Performance and transferred to the West End at the Trafalgar Studios before going on a National Tour. For the role she researched and interviewed members of the public about their sex lives.{{cite web |url=http://www.broadwaybaby.com/shows/lizzie-roper-in-peccadillo-circus/24933 |title=Lizzie Roper in Peccadillo Circus|work=Broadwaybaby.com |date=8 August 2006 |author=Robin T. Barton |access-date=25 April 2016}}

In 2011, Roper was in the West End musical comedy Betwixt!.{{cite web |url=http://london.broadway.com/buzz/157340/lizzie-roper-replaces-ellen-greene-for-extension-of-betwixt-in-the-west-end |title=Lizzie Roper Replaces Ellen Greene for Extension of Betwixt! in the West End |work=London.broadway.com |date=5 May 2014 |access-date=25 April 2016}} taking over from Ellen Greene. From 2013 to 2014, Roper appeared as Sam Lomax in Hollyoaks.{{cite web |url=http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/hollyoaks-spoilers-lizzie-roper-says-sam-lomax-develops-soft-spot-ste-hay |title=Hollyoaks Spoilers: Lizzie Roper says Sam Lomax develops a soft-spot for Ste Hay! |work=Primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk |date=23 October 2013 |author=Anna Howell |access-date=25 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601063112/http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/hollyoaks-spoilers-lizzie-roper-says-sam-lomax-develops-soft-spot-ste-hay/ |archive-date=1 June 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.soapsquawk.co.uk/hollyoaks-lizzie-roper-i-was-devastated-to-be-axed |title=Hollyoaks' Lizzie Roper: I was devastated to be axed|work=Soapsquawk.co.uk |date=4 August 2014 |access-date=25 April 2016}} When she finally left she went straight back to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in another one woman show in which she played the journalist Julie Burchill in Julie Burchill: Absolute Cult,{{Cite web|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/08/will-the-tens-of-thousands-of-vanitys-refugees-get-through-the-ego-crisis-alive/|title=The best of the Edinburgh Fringe|date=2014-08-16|language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-27}} a play written by Tim Fountain and directed by Mike Bradwell.{{cite web |url=http://www.festivalhighlights.com/lizzie-roper-why-i-wanted-to-play-queen-of-spleen-julie-burchill |title=Lizzie Roper: Why I wanted to play Queen of Spleen Julie Burchill|work=Festivalhighlights.com |date=4 August 2014 |author=Terri Paddock |access-date=25 April 2016}} In 2015 and 2016, Roper appeared as Jackie in Boy Meets Girl, a romantic comedy in which the main character is a transgender woman.{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/boy-meets-girl-review-cramlington-9983710 |title=Boy Meets Girl review: Cramlington writer Elliott Kerrigan pens a piece of TV gold |work=Chroniclelive.co.uk |date=3 September 2015 |access-date=25 April 2016}} In 2020, she was a signatory alongside Alexander Armstrong, Simon Fanshawe and Frances Barber in the Sunday Times calling out hate speech,‘the appalling hashtag #RIPJKRowling is just the latest example of hate speech directed against her and other women. #IStandWithJKRowling' .{{cite web |url= https://mobile.twitter.com/DebbieHayton/status/1310127017568894976/photo/2 |title=Signatories}}

She has appeared as herself in Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, Celebrity Storage Hunters,{{Cite web|url=http://uktvplay.uktv.co.uk/shows/storage-hunters-uk-celebrity-special/watch-online/|title=Storage Hunters UK Celebrity Special {{!}} UKTV Play|website=uktvplay.uktv.co.uk|access-date=2016-06-27}} The Wright Stuff, Jason Manford on Absolute Radio and Co-hosted on LBC regularly with Jenny Eclair.

Since 2009, Roper portrays Mabel in adverts for Aunt Bessie's.

From September 2022 until April 2023, Roper has been presenting the weekend mid-morning show on BBC radio across the Channel Islands, having previously presented BBC Radio Guernsey’s weekday mid-morning show from October 2021 to January 2022.

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