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Sophie Willan
Actor, Producer, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn October 21, 1987 (38 years)
Sophie Willan is a British stand up comedian, actress and writer. Willan was born in Bolton in 1987 to a heroin addicted mother. Her early life was difficult and she spent time in care. She later worked as an escort, and sex work is chronicled in her show one-woman stand up show, Branded. She became the recipient of the first ever Caroline Aherne Bursary award from the BBC for 2017-'18 and has won several awards for her stand up, including Edinburgh's Best Newcomer in 2017. She narrates Channel 4 reality gameshow The Circle and is a regular in BBC1 sitcom Still Open All Hours, as well as appearing in festive comedy Click and Collect alongside Stephen Merchant and Asim Chaudhry. In 2021, BBC2 broadcast the first series of her BAFTA-winning semi-autobiographical sitcom Alma's Not Normal to critical and commercial acclaim. A second and seemingly final series was aired in 2024.
Sophie Willan Filmography
| 2025 | The Big Fat Quiz of Everything · as Self - Contestant |
| 2024 | The Traitors: Uncloaked (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2023 | Late Night Lycett (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2022 | Party Island: Summer in Zante (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 2021 | The Weakest Link (2021) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | Never Mind the Buzzcocks (2021) (TV Series) · as Self - Guest Team Captain |
| 2021 | The Celebrity Circle (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 2021 | Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | Victoria Wood: The Secret List (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | Michael McIntyre's The Wheel (TV Series) · as Self - Expert |
| 2020 | Between the Covers (2020) (TV Series) · as Self - Panellist |
| 2020 | Steph's Packed Lunch (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | RuPaul's Drag Race UK (TV Series) · as Self - Guest Judge |
| 2019 | The Tez O'Clock Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | The Ranganation (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2018 | The Circle (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator |
| 2018 | The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2017 | The Russell Howard Hour (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | Richard Osman's House of Games (TV Series) · as Self - Panellist |
| 2015 | Taskmaster (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | The Great British Sewing Bee (TV Series) · as Self - Presenter |
| 2012 | The Last Leg (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | The Jonathan Ross Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2007 | Would I Lie to You? (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2006 | The ONE Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | Never Mind the Buzzcocks (TV Series) · as Self - Team Captain |
| 1992 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1980 | Granada Reports (TV Series) · as Self - Stand-Up Comic |
| 2026 | Small Prophets (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2024 | Ludwig (2024) (TV Series) · as Holly Pinder |
| 2021 | Time (2021) (TV Series) · as Maeve Riley |
| 2021 | This is My House (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2020 | Alma's Not Normal (TV Series) · as Alma |
| 2018 | Click & Collect · as Jessie |
| 2013 | Still Open All Hours (TV Series) · as Ruby |
| 2020 | Alma's Not Normal (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Alma's Not Normal (TV Series) |
| 2021 | The Celebrity Circle (TV Series) · as Additional Writing |
| 2018 | The Circle (TV Series) · as Additional Writing |