Isy Suttie
Isy Suttie | |
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Birth name | Isobel Jane Suttie |
Born |
Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom | 11 August 1978
Medium | Stand up, Theatre, Radio, TV |
Years active | 2000–present |
Notable works and roles | Stand-up, Peep Show, Pearl and Dave |
British Comedy Awards | |
Nomination for Best Female Newcomer for Peep Show 2008 Nomination for Best Female Breakthrough for Peep Show 2010 |
Isobel "Isy" Suttie (/ˈɪziː/; born 11 August 1978) is an English stand-up comedian, actress, writer, composer and musician.
She is best known for playing the role of Dobby in the British sitcom Peep Show,[1][2] and in 2013 won the gold Sony Radio Academy Award for her radio show Pearl And Dave.[3]
Early life
Suttie was born in Hull to an English mother and Scottish father, and raised in Matlock, Derbyshire. From an early age she expressed a desire to act and write. She began playing the guitar and writing songs at the age of twelve after she was refused saxophone lessons. She attended Highfields School in Matlock[4] where her fellow pupils included Ben Ottewell, singer-songwriter from the Mercury Prize-winning indie-rock band Gomez.[5]
Career
Suttie trained as an actress at the Guildford School of Acting, graduating in 2000. In 2001 she composed and directed a score for Peter Weiss' play Marat/Sade at the Arcola Theatre in London.[6][7] Suttie began performing stand-up comedy in 2003,[citation needed] and her act normally consists of music, stand-up and stories, either as herself or under the guise of a character.
Suttie has written and appeared in many shows on BBC radio, including her own BBC Radio 4 series Isy Suttie's Love Letters. She is also a regular presenter of The Comedy Club on BBC Radio 4 Extra and has acted in two of Tim Key's radio shows.[citation needed]
For series 3 and 4, she wrote for the popular teenage drama Skins, under the guise of "comedy consultant".[8]
At the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe, Suttie was one of the acts in stand-up showcase The Comedy Zone. 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 on 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, Pearl and Dave, to Edinburgh in August 2011. She appeared at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in July 2012. Suttie wrote and performed a 4 part series called Isy Suttie's Love Letters, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.[9]
Suttie occasionally duets with folk musician Gavin Osborn and supported Jim Bob (previously of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine) on tour in 2010.[10] Suttie also appeared with Jim Bob for the fourth year of the "Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People" event at the Bloomsbury Theatre in December 2011.[11] Suttie appeared in the short film that accompanied the song "God of Loneliness" by Emmy The Great, alongside Shazad Latif of Spooks—the piece is directed by Chris Boyle.[12][13]
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's Lafta Awards, which she won in 2011. She was nominated again in 2012. 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 2013, the BBC Radio 4 version of Pearl and Dave won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award.[citation needed]
She provides the voices for BBC One'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 provides voices for children's series The Revolting World of Stanley Brown.[citation needed]
Suttie played a waitress called Kiki alongside Alan Davies in BBC Two's Whites, which aired in autumn 2010.[14] She has also made TV appearances in Holby City, as Mary Shelley in The Trouble With Love (BBC Two), as various characters in The Incredible Will and Greg (Channel 4), as Lianne in Rab C. Nesbitt (BBC), as a judge in Genie in the House and as a nurse in two episodes of Skins (Channel 4).[citation needed]
She has been on the UK team for the monthly podcast "International Waters", hosted by Jesse Thorn of maximumfun.org. She appeared on episode 2 at the end of March 2012, alongside Dan Antopolski.[citation needed]
In 2012, Suttie voice-acted in the CBBC show "The Cow that Almost Missed Christmas" alongside Johnny Vegas. The show was a one-off animation which gave a unique interpretation of the Christmas Nativity seen through the eyes of a cow called Majorie, who Suttie voiced.[citation needed]
She plays the regular character Esther in series 11 of "Shameless", broadcast in 2013. In January 2013, she appeared in the ITV comedy drama series Great Night Out as Bev.
In August 2013, Suttie appeared in the one-off revival episode of the television series Knightmare as Treguard's assistant Veruca/Daisy. The 26-minute episode was aired as part of YouTube's "Geek Week" celebrations.[15]
Suttie appears in the S4C Welsh learners programme "Hwb" as a Welsh learner (which she is in real life) in a regular sketch called "Y Wers Gymraeg " ("The Welsh Lesson").[citation needed] She was cast as IT geek Dobby in Peep Show in 2008, a role that she continues to play in 2013.[16]
In 2013 she wrote and starred in a short film, The Best Night of Roxy's Life, alongside Philip Jackson and JJ Burnel of The Stranglers. The film tells the story of a Stranglers super fan, Roxy, who meets JJ, her hero. The film is due for release in 2014.
Personal life
Suttie is in a relationship with bilingual Welsh comedian Elis James.[17] The couple live in London.[18]
Filmography
TV
Year | Title | Character | Production | Notes |
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2008 | Love Soup | Researcher | BBC One | Season 2, Episode 7 |
2008 | The Incredible Will and Greg | Various sketches | Channel 4 | TV movie |
2008 | Genie in the House | Audition Judge | Nickelodeon | 1 episode |
2008 | Peep Show | Dobby | Channel 4 | Series 5 – present |
2009 | Holby City | Nancy Colcano | BBC One | 1 Episode |
2009 | Walk on the Wild Side | Various Voice Overs | BBC One (Series 1, 2), CBBC (Series 3) | Series 1, 2, and 3. |
2010 | Whites | Kiki | BBC Two | Series 1 |
2010 | Penelope Princess of Pets | Josie The Dog | Channel 4 | TV movie |
2011 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Leanne Curruth | BBC Two | Series 10, Episode 5 |
2012 | Skins | Nurse Pauline | Channel 4 | 2 Episodes |
2012 | White Van Man | Tash | BBC Three | Season 2, Episode 5 |
2012 | The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas | Marjorie (voice) | BBC Two | TV movie |
2013 | Great Night Out | Bev | ITV | Series 1 |
2013 | Shameless | Esther Blanco | Channel 4 | Series 11 |
2013 | Love Matters | Bella Wright | Sky Living | Series 1, Episode 3 |
2013 | Would I Lie To You? | Herself | BBC One | Series 7, Episode 2 |
2013 | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | Herself | BBC Two | Series 27, Episode 2 |
2013 | QI | Herself | BBC Two | Series K, Episode 8 |
2013 | Father Figure | BBC One | Series 1, Episode 6 |
References
- ↑ "No peeping – Isy Suttie interview". Scotland on Sunday. 3 August 2008.
- ↑ "Isy Suttie: The Suttie Show". Metro. 3 August 2008.
- ↑ http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2013/05/14/17844/suttie_wins_radio_gold
- ↑ How Isy made her mark in the tough world of comedy. This Is Derbyshire. 1 June 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ↑ Ben's finally bringing it on. This Is Derbyshire. 18 June 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ↑ '''Comedy Central:''' Isy Suttie. Comedycentral.co.uk. Retrieved on 7 April 2013
- ↑ "Isy Suttie". The Guardian. 2006. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- ↑ "Isy Suttie". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
- ↑ "Isy Suttie's Love Letters". BBC Radio 4. 1 April 2013.
- ↑ "Wednesday 19 May 2010 Jim Bob". Songkick. Songkick. 19 May 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- ↑ "Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People". Bloomsbury Theatre. The Bloomsbury Theatre. December 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- ↑ "THE GOD OF LONELINESS: THE NEW SINGLE FROM EMMY THE GREAT". Lost at E Minor. Lost at E Minor. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- ↑ "Emmy The Great - 'God of Loneliness'" (Video upload). Chris Boyle at Vimeo. Vimeo LLC. June 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- ↑ "Whites". BBC. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
- ↑ Rob Leigh (5 August 2013). "Treguard's back to take on The Opposition with Isy Suttie! Watch new Knightmare episode, part of YouTube's Geek Week". Mirror. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- ↑ Louise Jury (11 December 2013). "Peep Show geek Isy Suttie’s musical move in London A-Z show". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
- ↑ BBC News - Why Isy Suttie - Peep Show's Dobby - is learning Welsh
- ↑ 2013 Interview from The Guardian.
External links
- Isy Suttie at the Internet Movie Database
- "Isy Suttie chats Peep Show". Youtube.com. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- "Isy Suttie". Comedycv.co.uk. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
- "Isy Suttie". Chortle. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
- "Isy Suttie". MySpace. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
- "Isy Suttie". United Agents. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
- "Isy Suttie on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
- What's On Wales interview