Lucy Montgomery (actor)
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Lucy Montgomery is an English
comedian
, actress and writer
, best known for her radio and television work.
Montgomery is married to fellow comedian Rhys Thomas
; they have two daughters – Polly (born 2008) and Rosie Rae (born 2010) – and live in London.
, an amateur theatrical club. Subsequently, she studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama
. Montgomery built her career as one third of Comedy Theatre Company Population 3, along with James Bachman
and Barunka O'Shaughnessy
, and she appeared as a roving reporter for the comic television programme The Friday Night Project. Other television work has included Bo Selecta, The Mighty Boosh
, and The IT Crowd
.
Montgomery has been heard in several Radio 4
programmes, including the radio phone-in spoof Down the Line, Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends
, The Way We Live Right Now
, The Museum of Everything
, The Department
, Another Case of Milton Jones
, The Party Line
, Harry Hill's Ghost of a Christmas Present, The Pits, the Torchwood
story "Lost Souls
" and Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (2010).
In 2005, Montgomery began writing for and performing in the comedy sketch show Tittybangbang
on BBC Three
. The sketch comedy
series also stars Debbie Chazen
and has had three series, from 2005 to late 2007. She was in The Armstrong and Miller Show
on BBC One
, and Bellamy's People
on BBC Two
. She has also been on The Law of the Playground
and The Wall
on BBC Three, and is currently filming her own sketch show pilot for the BBC called The Full Montgomery. She also provides the voice of Destiny in Mongrels
.
She voiced for the series Badly Dubbed Porn on Comedy Central
.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
, actress and writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, best known for her radio and television work.
Montgomery is married to fellow comedian Rhys Thomas
Rhys Thomas (comedian)
Rhys Thomas is an English comedian and actor.-Career:His breakthrough came while working as a runner on Shooting Stars, when he showed Charlie Higson and Bob Mortimer some sketches he had performed in college...
; they have two daughters – Polly (born 2008) and Rosie Rae (born 2010) – and live in London.
Career
While at Cambridge University, Montgomery was a member of FootlightsFootlights
Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, founded in 1883 and run by the students of Cambridge University....
, an amateur theatrical club. Subsequently, she studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama
Central School of Speech and Drama
The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in London in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students...
. Montgomery built her career as one third of Comedy Theatre Company Population 3, along with James Bachman
James Bachman
James Bachman is an English comedian, actor and writer.He has written for many U.K. radio and television programmes, including That Mitchell and Webb Look , That Mitchell and Webb Sound , Popetown , and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway...
and Barunka O'Shaughnessy
Barunka O'Shaughnessy
Barunka O'Shaughnessy is a British actress, writer and producer.O'Shaughnessy began performing comedy while a student at Cambridge University. After her graduation, she collaborated with university friends Lucy Montgomery and James Bachman to write and perform shows at the Edinburgh Festival,...
, and she appeared as a roving reporter for the comic television programme The Friday Night Project. Other television work has included Bo Selecta, The Mighty Boosh
The Mighty Boosh (TV series)
The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy television show created by Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and others . The Mighty Boosh is a comic fantasy containing humour and pop-culture references. Episodes often featured elaborate musical numbers in different genres, such as electro, heavy metal, funk, and...
, and The IT Crowd
The IT Crowd
The IT Crowd is a British sitcom by Channel 4, written by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson and Matt Berry...
.
Montgomery has been heard in several Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
programmes, including the radio phone-in spoof Down the Line, Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends
Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends
Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series written by and starring Kay Stonham and Simon Greenall. It revolves around the mundane lives of Robin and Wendy Mayfield who live on an anonymous estate in Stevenage. Robin tends to be self-centred, demanding and controlling in his...
, The Way We Live Right Now
The Way We Live Right Now
The Way We Live Right Now was an adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel The Way We Live Now, re-setting it in the present day. It was written by Jonathan Myerson for the Woman's Hour serial.-Cast:*Henry Goodman - Ghassan Mehmoud...
, The Museum of Everything
The Museum of Everything
The Museum of Everything is a BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch show, written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell with Lucy Montgomery. The show generally occupies the 18:30 comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, with repeats several times a year on BBC Radio 4 Extra...
, The Department
The Department
The Department is a satirical comedy on BBC Radio 4 about a secret organisation with the power to influence every aspect of your life.Chris Addison, John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman star as Research Team 32, an eccentric three-man think-tank with the brief to brainstorm new ideas on solving society's...
, Another Case of Milton Jones
Another Case of Milton Jones
Another Case of Milton Jones is the third distinct comedy programme starring Milton Jones to be broadcast by BBC Radio 4 . The programme is in its fifth series, which started on Radio 4 on Thursday 21 July 2011. The four previous series were broadcast in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010...
, The Party Line
The Party Line (radio)
The Party Line is a British radio sitcom, co-written by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, and produced by Adam Bromley. It was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2005 and 2008. The show stars James Fleet as Duncan Stonebridge, a Member of Parliament for the imaginary constituency of...
, Harry Hill's Ghost of a Christmas Present, The Pits, the Torchwood
Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
story "Lost Souls
Lost Souls (Torchwood)
"Lost Souls" is an original BBC Radio 4 audio play written by Joseph Lidster and is a spin-off from the British science fiction television series Torchwood, itself a spin-off from Doctor Who. It aired on 10 September 2008 in the Afternoon Play slot as part of Radio 4's Big Bang Day which celebrated...
" and Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (2010).
In 2005, Montgomery began writing for and performing in the comedy sketch show Tittybangbang
Tittybangbang
Tittybangbang is a female-led television sketch comedy, performed by Lucy Montgomery and Debbie Chazen, which ran between 2005 and 2007 on BBC Three. The show was largely written by Bob Mortimer and Jill Parker and produced by their company Pett Productions.-History:Bob Mortimer and Lisa Clark...
on BBC Three
BBC Three
BBC Three is a television network from the BBC broadcasting via digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and satellite platforms. The channel's target audience includes those in the 16-34 year old age group, and has the purpose of providing "innovative" content to younger audiences, focusing on new talent...
. The sketch comedy
Sketch comedy
A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...
series also stars Debbie Chazen
Debbie Chazen
Debbie Chazen is an English actress. She is most famous for playing the roles of Annie in the BBC comedy The Smoking Room, Big Claire in Mine All Mine and various roles in the BBC sketch show Tittybangbang....
and has had three series, from 2005 to late 2007. She was in The Armstrong and Miller Show
The Armstrong and Miller Show
The Armstrong and Miller Show is a British sketch comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. It features the double act Armstrong and Miller and a number of notable scriptwriters including Andy Hamilton and The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson.The series followed four...
on BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
, and Bellamy's People
Bellamy's People
Bellamy's People, also known as Bellamy's People of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is a British comedy show first broadcast on BBC 2 as an eight episode series. The show is a spin off from the BBC Radio 4 show Down the Line...
on BBC Two
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
. She has also been on The Law of the Playground
Law of the Playground
Law of the Playground is the name of a website, book and television series which features members of the publics memories about school life. It styles itself "The least coherent encyclopaedia of playground insults on the internet"-Website:...
and The Wall
The Wall (TV series)
The Wall is a British comedy television programme presented by Alexa Chung and Rhys Thomas. The programme is produced by Zeppotron for BBC Three and premiered on the channel on 8 April 2008...
on BBC Three, and is currently filming her own sketch show pilot for the BBC called The Full Montgomery. She also provides the voice of Destiny in Mongrels
Mongrels (TV series)
Mongrels, formerly known under the working titles of We Are Mongrels and The Un-Natural World, is a British puppet-based situation comedy series first broadcast on BBC Three between 22 June and 10 August 2010, with a making-of documentary entitled "Mongrels Uncovered" broadcast on 11 August 2010...
.
She voiced for the series Badly Dubbed Porn on Comedy Central
Comedy Central (UK)
Comedy Central in the United Kingdom and Ireland is a localised version of Comedy Central which first began in the United States in the 1990s. The television channel is available through the Sky, Virgin Media, TalkTalk TV in the United Kingdom, Sky Ireland, UPC Ireland and Magnet Networks in the...
.
Television
| Year | Series | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | AD/BC: A Rock Opera AD/BC: A Rock Opera AD/BC is a parody rock opera with music by Matt Berry and lyrics by Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade. It aired on BBC Three in 2004.-Summary:... |
Wise man | TV |
| 2005 | Badly Dubbed Porn | Various characters | Voice |
| The Robinsons The Robinsons The Robinsons is a British comedy television series that debuted on BBC Two on May 5, 2005. The show's central character is a divorced reinsurance actuary, Ed Robinson , who realises that reinsurance is not his passion and decides to rethink his life. The series is written and directed by Mark... |
Amanda | 1 episode | |
| The Mighty Boosh The Mighty Boosh The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy troupe featuring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding. Developed from three stage shows and a six episode radio series, it has since spawned a total of twenty television episodes for BBC Three and two live tours of the UK, as well as two live shows in the... |
Townswoman | Episode: The Priest and the Beast | |
| Tittybangbang Tittybangbang Tittybangbang is a female-led television sketch comedy, performed by Lucy Montgomery and Debbie Chazen, which ran between 2005 and 2007 on BBC Three. The show was largely written by Bob Mortimer and Jill Parker and produced by their company Pett Productions.-History:Bob Mortimer and Lisa Clark... |
Various characters | Also writer | |
| 2006 | Phobias | The Pogonophobe | |
| 2007 | Strutter | Elkie Zpittvar | 4 episodes |
| The Armstrong and Miller Show The Armstrong and Miller Show The Armstrong and Miller Show is a British sketch comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. It features the double act Armstrong and Miller and a number of notable scriptwriters including Andy Hamilton and The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson.The series followed four... |
Various characters | 13 episodes | |
| 2008 | 10 Days to War 10 Days to War 10 Days to War was a series of eight short television dramas commissioned by Newsnight and broadcast on BBC Two between 10 March 2008 and 19 March 2008 to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War... |
Natalie Fay | Episode: "A Simple Private Matter" |
| Headcases Headcases Headcases was an ITV satirical animation show based on current affairs. It employed the same satirical style as Spitting Image, 2DTV and Bo' Selecta! but using 3D animation created by UK Visual Effects and animation house Red Vision... |
Various | ||
| The IT Crowd The IT Crowd The IT Crowd is a British sitcom by Channel 4, written by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson and Matt Berry... |
April | Episode: "The Speech" | |
| The Wall The Wall (TV series) The Wall is a British comedy television programme presented by Alexa Chung and Rhys Thomas. The programme is produced by Zeppotron for BBC Three and premiered on the channel on 8 April 2008... |
Various/Charles Irons | ||
| 2010 | Bellamy's People of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Bellamy's People Bellamy's People, also known as Bellamy's People of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is a British comedy show first broadcast on BBC 2 as an eight episode series. The show is a spin off from the BBC Radio 4 show Down the Line... |
Various Roles | 8 episodes |
| Mongrels Mongrels (TV series) Mongrels, formerly known under the working titles of We Are Mongrels and The Un-Natural World, is a British puppet-based situation comedy series first broadcast on BBC Three between 22 June and 10 August 2010, with a making-of documentary entitled "Mongrels Uncovered" broadcast on 11 August 2010... |
Destiny | ||
| The Stephen K. Amos Show | Candi Carmel | 1 episode | |