Doris Waters
As ‘Gert and Daisy’, the Waters sisters became stalwarts of seaside variety shows, music halls, Royal Variety performances, and the occasional film, although radio was where they found a natural home and made their best work.
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Laura Bayley
Early comedic actress and director of the English film industry
Dorothea Jordan
“As an actress in comedy Dorothy Jordan can have had few equals, and no woman of the stage was ever more extravagantly praised by the eminent critics of her time.”
Ada Rehan
Irish-American actress of the late 1800s
Wendy Blacklock
Wendy Blacklock acted in some of the most iconic Australian television series of the 1970s, including Skippy, Homicide and Boney and also had a long-running role as ‘Mummy’ in the popular Australian television series Number 96 (1972-1977).
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball was an American actress and pioneer in comedy. She was the star of the popular television series, I Love Lucy. As an entertainer and businesswoman, Ball continuously broke barriers for women in entertainment business.
Hanna Maron
Hanna Maron was a German-born Israeli actor, comedian and theater personality who held the world record for the longest career in theater.
Shazia Mirza
Shazia Mirza is an English stand-up comedian, actress, and writer . In addition to her stand up comedy (including The Kardashians Made Me Do It), she is known for her columns and articles in British newspapers The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph as well as New Statesman magazine, Dawn newspaper, FT Magazine and the Chicago Tribune. She has also made guest appearances on a variety of television and radio shows.
Aparna Nancherla
Aparna Nancherla is an American comedian and actor who has appeared on Inside Amy Schumer and has written for Late Night with Seth Meyers and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Nancherla released her debut comedy album Just Putting It Out There through Tig Notaro’s Bentzen Ball Records on July 8, 2016. Her credits also include several web series, such as Your Main Thing with John Early. She co-created and starred in Womanhood, a satirical advice series with comedian Jo Firestone.
In 2019 Aparna was featured in Laughing Matters, a-30 minute YouTube documentary, in which various comedians discuss mental health.
Mae Martin
Mae Martin is a comedian, actor and writer who identies as gender fliud, alternating between she and they pronouns. Martin wrote and starred in the 2020 semi-autobiographical Netflix comedy Feel Good and has won two Canadian Comedy Awards as part of comedy troupe “The Young and the Useless”. She also presents Mae Martin’s Guide to 21st Century Sexuality on BBC Radio 4 and published her first non-fiction book, Can Everyone Please Calm Down?: A Guide to 21st Century Sexuality in 2019.