Aisling Bea

Aisling Clíodhnadh O'Sullivan (born 16 March 1984), known professionally as Aisling Bea ( ASH-ling BEE), is an Irish comedian, actress and screenwriter. She created, wrote and starred in the comedy series This Way Up on Channel 4. As a stand-up comedian, she won the So You Think You're Funny award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012, being only the second woman to win the award in its then-25-year history. She also appears regularly on light entertainment comedy panel shows such as QI and 8 Out of 10 Cats and was a contestant on comedy game show Taskmaster.

Bea was born Aisling Cliodhnadh O'Sullivan in Kildare, Ireland. Her father, Brian, was a horse veterinarian who died by suicide when Bea was three years old; she was not told how he had died until she was 13. She adopted the stage surname "Bea" as a tribute to her father, taking it from a short form of his first name.

Bea and her younger sister, Sinéad (who is now a Hollywood costume designer), were raised by their mother, Helen (née Moloney), a secondary school teacher who had previously trained jockeys at the Racing Academy and Centre of Education. She was also a professional flat-race jockey, and later ran a jockey school. Her family was "obsessed" with horses and race meetings. Her great-aunt was playwright Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin, and musician Liam O'Flynn was a family friend.

From 2016 to 2017, Bea was a team captain (the first female captain on the show) on 8 Out of 10 Cats, having previously been a guest on the show in 2013 and 2014. Her guest appearances on other panel shows include:

Born 1984-03-16 in Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland.

On ThumbScore, Aisling Bea appears in 3 films with an average audience score of 45.3%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.

Sources: Wikipedia, TMDB