Amy Gledhill

Amy Gledhill is a British stand-up comedian and actress from Hull, East Yorkshire. She has been nominated for Best Show at the UK National Comedy Awards and for Best Show and Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning the former in 2024. She performs solo and as half of The Delightful Sausage with Chris Cantrill. As part of her stand-up routine she has said she is the youngest of seven children.

Gledhill started her career in various sketch groups in the north of England. In 2018 it was announced on BBC One's The One Show that she was the second winner of the Caroline Aherne Bursary, receiving a cash prize and mentoring from a BBC commissioning editor. In 2019, as part of The Delightful Sausage, she was nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Fringe for Ginsters Paradise, and between 2020 and 2021 she appeared in the CBBC and BBC iPlayer children's sketch show Big Fat Like. She also played Leslie in the BBC Two comedy series Alma's Not Normal in 2021 and 2024.

Gledhill made her solo show debut at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe with The Girl Before The Girl You Marry, earning a Best Newcomer nomination, and in summer 2024 returned with Make Me Look Fit on the Poster, which won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show. She co-hosts the Northern News podcast with Ian Smith and launched Single Ladies In Your Area with Harriet Kemsley in October 2024. In January 2026 she appeared in the Netflix series Run Away as DC Ruby Todd, in March 2026 she was a contestant on the second series of LOL: Last One Laughing UK, and in May 2026 she was a contestant on the 21st series of Taskmaster.