Katy Brand
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| Born | January 13, 1979 Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2001–present |
Katy Brand (born 13 January 1979 in Buckinghamshire) is an English actress, comedian and writer.
She attended St. Clement Danes School in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, before winning a place at Keble College, Oxford, to study Theology. She claims to have been a very committed Christian in her teens, but now has no particular faith. Whilst at Oxford she was involved in OUDS and was Vice President of the Oxford Revue. She performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival several times as a student. She worked in television production for a few years upon leaving university. In 2004 she performed her first gig since leaving Oxford. She wrote a series of monologues and became a regular on the live comedy circuit. She was a member of the acclaimed "Ealing Live!" team, and took her own show to Edinburgh in 2005 called "Katy Brand: Celebrities are Gods'. It was through this show she developed her distinctive style of celebrity parody, along with some of her original characters such as Captain Rosie.
In early 2006 she wrote and performed in her own Comedy Lab Slap for Channel 4, featuring many of her live characters and celebrity spoofs. ITV2 commissioned a full series, which became Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, broadcast in October 2007. It was a critical and ratings success, and amongst the most popular sketches were her music spoofs of chart toppers such as Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen, which all received regular airplay on BBC Radio 1. A compilation show Katy Brand's Best Bits was broadcast on ITV1 in January 2008. A second series of Katy Brand's Big Ass Show is in production, set to air in September 2008. She is also collaborating with fellow actress and writer Katherine Parkinson on a Radio 4 series called Mouth Trap, airing in May 2008. She has appeared as herself on programmes such as Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and has written a column for the News of the World.
Katy Brand has also appeared in many British TV comedies, such as Peep Show (Channel 4), Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive (BBC3), Hyperdrive (BBC2), Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor (BBC3), Tittybangbang (BBC3) and Headcases (ITV1). She has also been involved in numerous Radio 4 comedy shows, most notably in both series of The Hollow Men, who are all regular writers on Katy Brand's Big Ass Show.
She lives in London and is in a relationship.
