Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge is an English actress and writer. She is best known for creating, writing, and starring in the comedy-drama series Crashing (2016) and Fleabag (2016–2019), winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for the latter, and for developing and writing the BBC America drama series Killing Eve (2018–present), on which she also served as the showrunner for the first season.\n', ' Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born in West London, the daughter of Teresa Mary (née Clerke) and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge. Her father founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, while her mother works for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex. On her father\'s side, she is also a descendant of The Rev. Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876. Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, the 12th Clerke baronet of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire. Waller-Bridge grew up in Ealing, London, and has a younger brother named Jasper, a music manager, and an older sister named Isobel, a composer who would later write the music for Fleabag. Her parents are divorced. She was educated at St Augustine\'s Priory, a Catholic independent school for girls, followed by the independent sixth form college DLD College London in Marylebone, London. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.\n', ' In 2009, Waller-Bridge made her acting debut in the play Roaring Trade at Soho Theatre. In 2013, Waller-Bridge appeared in one episode of Bad Education as "India." She appeared in the second series of drama Broadchurch in 2015.\n', '