Emma Sidi

Sidi's father Paul, who had previously played top level Rugby union for Harlequins in London, was working in banking in the US when Sidi was born. The family left when Sidi was three years old and her father would retrain as a physiotherapist in Chertsey, Surrey. Sidi was brought up and schooled near Woking, before studying French and Spanish at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which included a spell living in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in Mexico. Sidi was a member of the Cambridge Footlights.
Sidi was a finalist for the NATYS: New Act of the Year Show in 2016. Her solo shows have often included Sidi playing many different characters. Sidi's Edinburgh Festival Fringe show ‘Character Breakdown’, in 2015, saw her play six different roles, including a feminist professor who delivers a lecture entirely in Spanish. Sidi's 2016 show, ‘Telenovela’, a Mexican soap opera and a European woman who dreams of a li…