Bridget Christie

Bridget Louise Christie (born 17 August 1971) is an English stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She has written and performed comedy tours, in addition to radio and television work, and has been nominated for a BAFTA.

Christie grew up in Gloucester in the south-west of England, the youngest of nine siblings born to parents from the west of Ireland. She attended St Peter's Roman Catholic High School in Gloucester, leaving at the age of 15 without qualifications, and in 1994 won a three-year scholarship to study drama at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) in Wandsworth, London. She appeared in theatre productions and adverts before she began stand-up in 2004, and was one of the finalists in the Funny Women Awards that year.

Her debut BBC Radio 4 series, Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, was broadcast in April 2013, and the three series won the Best Radio award at the 2014 Chortle Awards. Her debut book, A Book for Her, was published in July 2015. She has written and performed 13 solo shows, the majority originating at the Edinburgh Festival, including A Bic for Her and her Brexit-themed Because You Demanded It, which was The Guardian's No 1 Comedy of the Year 2016. Her first television series, The Change, premiered on Channel 4 in June 2023, in which she plays Linda; she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for the show. She was also a contestant in series 13 of Taskmaster, finishing 3rd.