Sally Phillips is a multi-award-winning British actress, comedian, and producer. She is known for her work in the comedy television series I’m Alan Partridge, Jam and Jerusalem, Miranda, Taskmaster and Veep. She started her comedy career in the Oxford Revue and completed 9 Edinburgh Fringe runs in shows like Ra-Ra-Rasputin, a comedy biography of Rasputin the monk set to the words and lyrics of Boney M, Simon Munnery’s Cluub Zarathustra, with Stewart Lee, Richard Thomas and Julian Barratt and as Ophelia in Arthur Smith’s Hamlet alongside writing and performing comedy for BBC Radio.
In 1997 she was cast in ‘Smack the Pony’ which aired on Channel 4 from 1998-2001. Smack the Pony was a ground-breaking female-led sketch show that she developed and co-wrote which also starred Doon Mackichan, Fiona Allen, Sarah Alexander and Darren Boyd. It won many awards, among them two international Emmys.
In 2016 she fronted the documentary 'A World Without Down's Syndrome?' (BBC2), exploring our national screening policy's ethical implications. It won the Radio Times Readers Awards and Sanford St Martin awards for the Best single documentary and was shown worldwide. This success has led to contributions to The Nuffield Council Report, invitations to speak to midwives, gynaecologists, politicians, and philosophers globally, and she continues to be a vocal disability advocate.
You can watch a debate she participated in at HowTheLightGetsIn Online festival, entitled Sexuality, Power and Pornography, here.