Ololade Adefope

Lolly Adefope (born Ololade Adefope in 1990/1991) is an English stand-up comedian and actress who specialises in character comedy. She is known for playing Fran in the Hulu comedy series Shrill and Kitty, the ghost of a Georgian noblewoman, in the BBC comedy Ghosts, for which she was nominated for a National Comedy Award in 2021. She was born in South London to Nigerian parents and studied English literature at Loughborough University, where she began performing with a sketch comedy group.

After university, Adefope applied to drama school but was rejected and began working in an office before launching her career as a stand-up comic. She transitioned into acting after receiving positive attention for solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2015 and 2016. Also in 2015, she was selected for the BBC Writersroom comedy programme, and in 2016 she was nominated for two Chortle Awards.

As an actress, Adefope has appeared in Together, Josh, Plebs, Rovers, Sick Note, Ghosts, Miracle Workers, and Shrill, and has been a guest on Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, The Last Leg, and QI. She also appeared on the fourth series of Taskmaster. Shrill star and co-creator Aidy Bryant praised Adefope's acting for "how much she can convey with just the slightest movement of her eyes." In October 2021, it was announced that she would appear in an upcoming American series, Girls Can't Shoot (& Other Lies), based on Scarlett Curtis's anthology Feminists Don't Wear Pink (& Other Lies).