Isy Suttie

Isy Suttie
Birth name Isobel Jane Suttie
Born 11 August 1978 (1978-08-11) (age 33)
Kingston upon Hull, England
Medium Stand up, Theatre, Radio, TV
Years active 2000-present
British Comedy Awards

Nomination for Best Female Newcomer for Peep Show 2008

Nomination for Best Female Breakthrough for Peep Show 2010

Isobel "Isy" Suttie (born 11 August 1978) is an English stand up comedian, actress, writer, and musician. She is best known for playing the role of Dobby in the British sitcom Peep Show.[1] [2]

Career

Isy Suttie was born in Hull, raised in Matlock, Derbyshire, England and trained as an actress at the Guildford School of Acting.

Suttie performs live musical comedy regularly on the national comedy circuit, either as herself or under the guise of a character. BBC Radio writing and performing work includes The Mitch Benn Music Show, Tilt BBC7; Out to Lunch BBC Radio 2; The Milk Run, The Ali Mac Music Show BBC Radio 1; The Now Show, The Alternative Women's Institute, Four on the Floor, Danny Robins Music Therapy, Laurence & Gus: Hearts & Minds and Sarah Millican's Support Group BBC Radio 4. Since 2008, she has been writing for the popular teenage drama Skins under the guise of 'comedy consultant'.[3]

At the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Suttie was one of the acts in stand-up showcase The Comedy Zone and in 2006 she acted in Danielle Ward's Take-a-Break Tales at the Pleasance with Neil Edmond and Emma Fryer. In 2007 she performed her debut solo stand-up show, Love Lost in the British Retail Industry, which she took to Sydney Arts Festival and a UK tour in 2010-11, and in 2008 her second solo Edinburgh show The Suttie Show. She played psycho killer Sorrow in the revival of Danielle Ward and Martin White's cult musical Gutted at the Leicester Square Theatre for two performances in February and March 2011. She took her third solo stand-up show to Edinburgh in August 2011, entitled Pearl and Dave.

An accomplished musician, Suttie composed and musically directed a score for Marat/Sade at the Arcola Theatre, London in 2001. She occasionally duets with folk musician Gavin Osborn and supported Jim Bob (previously of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine) on tour in 2010.

Suttie was nominated for Best Female Newcomer at the 2008 British Comedy Awards, and Female Breakthrough Artist at the 2011 British Comedy Awards . She was nominated for Funniest Woman in the 2010 Loaded Magazine Lafta Awards, which she won in 2011. Previous to this, she was regional winner of the Daily Telegraph Young Jazz Competition (1995) for composition, winner of the Julian Slade Songwriting Competition (1998) and Chortle Awards best newcomer nominee (2005).

In July 2009 she appeared on the panel game 8 Out of 10 Cats.

She has been compared to Victoria Wood in the media for her non-confrontational Northern stand-up style.

She provides the voices for BBC1's Walk on the Wild Side in addition to voicing the character of Josie The Dog in Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler's Penelope Princess of Pets Channel 4 Comedy Lab. She plays a waitress called Kiki alongside Alan Davies in BBC2's Whites, which aired in autumn 2010.[4]

Other TV credits include Comedy Cuts ITV, Holby City, Mary Shelley in The Trouble With Love (BBC2), The Incredible Will and Greg (Channel 4), Rab C Nesbitt (BBC) and the recurring character Dobby in Peep Show (Channel 4).

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