Roisin Conaty


Roisin Marcella Conaty is an English comedian, writer, and actor. She won the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010 for her show 'Hero, Warrior, Fireman, Liar'. In early 2014, the pilot of the sitcom GameFace, of which she is the writer, lead actress and executive producer, aired on Channel 4. The first full series aired in 2017 on both E4 and Hulu in the US. The second series aired on Channel 4 and Hulu in July 2019. Conaty won the 'Heat Unmissables' Comedian of the year award in 2019. She stars as Roxy in the Ricky Gervais Netflix show 'Afterlife'

Early life

Born in Camden, London, Conaty's parents were both from Ireland but met in London. Her father, from Virginia, County Cavan, worked for Aer Lingus and her mother, from Dromcolliher, County Limerick, was a nurse. Conaty grew up in Camden with her younger sister, Siobhan, and spent summers in Ireland in County Kerry and County Cork. She studied film at Middlesex University and had several office jobs before starting her comedy career at the age of 24.

Life and stand-up

In 2010, Conaty won the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Festival for her show Hero, Warrior, Fireman, Liar, becoming one of only five women to receive an Edinburgh Comedy award in 30 years. In April 2011, she performed her show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Television stand-up

In November 2010, she appeared on series 3, episode 4 of Russell Howard's Good News. Other stand-up performances include "The Angina Monologues", alongside Victoria Wood, Jo Brand, Andi Osho, Isy Suttie and Katy Brand for Sky Television, Russell Howard's Stand Up Central on Comedy Central and Live at the Apollo in December 2015. In 2016, she was a guest on the Jonathan Ross Show.
Conaty has appeared on a number of panel shows, including Have I Got News for You, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Insert Name Here, A League of Their Own, Would I Lie to You? and "Room 101". She starred in the BBC Three version of Impractical Jokers. She was one of the original cast of comedians in series 1 of Taskmaster on Dave.

Acting

Conaty has appeared as "Jo" in the Channel 4 sitcom Man Down, alongside Greg Davies, since 2013; and in Ricky Gervais' . In March 2019, she featured in the Netflix comedy series After Life as Daphne/Roxy.

Filmography

Film

Television

Writing

In 2014, she wrote and starred in the pilot of her sitcom GameFace, in which she plays a struggling actor named Marcella. The pilot aired on Channel 4 in April 2014, following which a full series was commissioned, which premiered on E4 in October 2017.The second series debuted in July 2019 with critical acclaim.