Catherine Shepherd

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Catherine Shepherd
Born	Catherine Shepherd 1975 England

Catherine Shepherd (born 1975) is an English actress and writer, with a career spanning radio, theatre, film and television^[1].

She was educated in South London at the James Allen's Girls' School. A prolific writer, having co-written several plays performed at the Edinburgh Fringe^[1], Shepherd's stage play Cats and Monkeys has been produced as a BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play, with a cast featuring Anna Carteret, Jack Shepherd and the author [1]. ^[1].

She was a commissioned writer on the comedy sketch show Party Piece^[1] (produced by Objective and shown on E4) and also wrote on the BBC Radio 4 show Concrete Cow^[1]. Shepherd co-wrote Your Whole Life, which won a Best of the Sunday Lizard award at the Traverse Theatre^[1].

Whilst currently writing for the BBC2 sketch show The Peter Serafinowicz Show^[1], Shepherd is also developing a new TV sitcom, Baggage^[1].

Shepherd speaks fluent Italian^[1], and achieved honours at senior grade in ballet dancing^[1].

She is the daughter of well known actor Jack Shepherd, who is perhaps most famous for having played Charles Wycliffe in the HTV television series Wycliffe.