Catherine Shepherd

Acting

Catherine Shepherd

Born 1975-09-16 · Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Catherine Shepherd is an English comedic actress, writer and director In the early 2000s Shepherd appeared in several BBC Radio 4 comedies, as Daisy in the sitcom Think the Unthinkable alongside Marcus Brigstocke and David Mitchell, as Xanthe in Ring Around the Bath, and in James Cary's Radio 4 sketch show Concrete Cow, with Robert Webb. On television, she played the character April in the sitcom Peep Show. She appeared in one episode of the second series in 2004, and returned eleven years later as a recurring character in series 9. She appeared as Jessica in The IT Crowd episode "The Dinner Party" (first broadcast 14 September 2007). She appeared in The Peter Serafinowicz Show which aired between 2007 and 2008, where she played multiple roles in the different sketches in the show. In 2012, Shepherd appeared as Vicky Long in the final episode, "Loose Ends", of the BBC comedy show about the 2012 Olympic Games, Twenty Twelve (first broadcast 24 July 2012). In 2013, Shepherd narrated the audiobook Blue Sky Thinking by Ben Lewis In October 2018, Shepherd played the title role in the HBO/Sky Atlantic sitcom Sally4Ever. In 2019, she appeared alongside Lolly Adefope in the television short film Sorry, broadcast on BBC Two's Comedy Shorts programme.

Acting credits

Paddington 2 poster
7.5

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Paddington 2

2017

Paddington poster
7.1

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

Paddington

2014

D.O.A poster
NR

Tom,a junior doctor under suspension for fatally removing the wrong lung from a patient and nick-named Dr. Death,is working in Leeds as a paramedic with the knowing Julie,who sells sex aids from the back of the ambulance. After dealing with a man whose pet alligator bit his fingers off and a Goth who threw up so much an exorcist was brought in,Tom redeems himself by reviving an unconscious man. But he still has to deal with Rob Krizzo,the scruffy - and useless - lawyer engaged to fight his case and who accidentally injects him,not to mention Terence,from whose anus he once removed a mobile phone and who is now lustfully stalking him.And then girl-friend Lucy,another doctor,seems to be about to throw him over.

D.O.A

2010

Red Top poster
5.3

Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and gets caught up in a seventies Watergate-style scandal.

Red Top

2016

Magicians poster
5.9

A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.

Magicians

2007

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NR

Documentary of the 1997 Footlights, the theatrical club of Cambridge University.

Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights

1997

The Love Box in Your Living Room poster
7.3

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse tell the true story of Britain’s evolution over the last century through the life of the BBC, by turning complete fictions into a staggering array of hard facts.

The Love Box in Your Living Room

2022

The Hunt for Tony Blair poster
7.8

The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follows Prime Minister Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan), wanted for murder and on the run. Escaping from Number 10 and leaving behind his adoring wife Cherie (Catherine Shepherd), Tony vows to clear his name no matter what the consequences.

The Hunt for Tony Blair

2011

Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s poster
7.0

As part of the BBC2 50th anniversary celebrations comedians Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse were commissioned to produce this spoof history of the channel. It parodies the channel, its content and the history documentary.

Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s

2014

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