Aisling Bea

Aisling Bea is a BAFTA award-winning comedian, actor, writer and producer.

After graduating from trinity College in Dublin, she trained in classical acting at LAMDA and has over the years appeared in numerous TV shows and films.

In 2012, in what was a surprise to scientists everywhere, Aisling became the first woman to win the prestigious new stand-ups ‘So You Think You're Funny?' competition in 20 years. Then, just a year later, her debut solo, stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe, sold out in three days, received four and five star reviews across the board and she was nominated for the Foster's Best Newcomer Award (formerly The Perrier).

She was the first person to win So You Think You're Funny? and then go on to be nominated for Best Newcomer at Edinburgh within the same year since Peter Kay in 1998.

As a comedian, Aisling has appeared on shows like QI, Taskmaster, Ru Paul’s Drag Race as a judge, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, A League of Their Own, The Big Fat Quiz of Everything, Late Night Lycett, The Last Leg, Live At The Apollo and The Graham Norton Show. In 2024, she also appeared as a contestant on LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland.

Aisling’s brilliant 5-star series This Way Up that she wrote, produced and starred in aired on Channel 4 in the UK and on HULU in the US, earning Aisling the BAFTA TV Craft Award for Breakthrough Talent.

Aisling has also appeared as the lead in the blockbuster film based on the music of Take That, Greatest Days, Sky romcom Smothered, Netflix’s original series Living with Yourself opposite Paul Rudd and in Disney’s remake of Home Alone, Home Sweet Home Alone.

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