Catherine Shepherd

British actress
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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.

Date of Birth1st January 1975
Age49 Years
Zodiac SignCapricorn
CountryUnited Kingdom
Current CityEngland
Birth PlaceEngland
NationalityUnited Kingdom
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Occupationactor, film director