Aisling Bea
Aisling Clíodhnadh O’Sullivan, known professionally as Aisling Bea, is an Irish comedian, actor, and screenwriter. Her father, Brian, was a horse veterinarian who took his own life when Bea was three years old. She adopted the stage surname as a tribute to her father, taking it from a short form of his first name.
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Aisling Clíodhnadh O’Sullivan, known professionally as Aisling Bea, is an Irish comedian, actor, and screenwriter. Her father, Brian, was a horse veterinarian who took his own life when Bea was three years old. She adopted the stage surname as a tribute to her father, taking it from a short form of his first name. Bea won the 2014 British Comedy Award for Best Female TV Comic. She stars in the Netflix comedy-drama series Living with Yourself and is the star and head writer of the Channel 4 comedy series This Way Up.
She previously campaigned for same-sex marriage legislation in the Republic of Ireland in the successful 2016 referendum. In 2019, Bea wrote this Way Up, in which she starred as teacher Aine. It was produced by Sharon Horgan, who plays her older sister. The series premiered on Channel 4 on 8 August 2019. For her work on This Way up, BeA won the 2020 British Academy Television Craft Award for Breakthrough Talent.
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