Katy Brand

Katy Brand is a writer, comedian, actor and journalist who performed her first professional gig at The Enterprise pub in Chalk Farm on January 13th, 2004 and hasn't stopped working since. In 2008 she won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards. She has appeared in numerous films (Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Svengali, Good Arrows), TV shows (Peep Show, Have I Got News For You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, Psychobitches, Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive, Strictly Come Dancing, Little Crackers, Kilroy), radio programmes (Mouth Trap, Infinite Monkey Cage, The Time Traveller’s Guide) and live events (Ealing Live! Victoria Wood’s Angina Monologues, The Twitter Joke Trial Benefit Gig). Between 2007 and 2009 she wrote and performed her own ITV sketch show Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, taking it out on a live UK tour in 2010. She was a columnist for Reveal magazine for three years, and currently writes a weekly column for the Daily Telegraph. She also once dressed up as Beyoncé on national television and very nearly got away with it…