Catherine Shepherd

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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.

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2026
Two Weeks in August
TV show Executive Producer
2022
The Love Box in Your Living Room
Movie
2018
Sally4Ever
TV show Sally
2017
Paddington 2
Movie Nelson's Mother
2016
Red Top
Movie Julie
2014
Paddington
Movie Geographer (Present Day)
2014
Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s
Movie Joan Bakewell Tart / Sue Perkins / Various
2012
Gates
TV show Sarah
2011
The Hunt for Tony Blair
Movie Cherie Blair
2011
See Me
Movie Director
2011
Twenty Twelve
TV show Vicky Long
2010
D.O.A
Movie Lucy Carrington
2007
The Peter Serafinowicz Show
TV show Various
2007
Magicians
Movie Female Passenger
2007
After You've Gone
TV show Mrs Turner
2006
The IT Crowd
TV show Jessica