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Katie Cariad Lloyd (born 21 August 1982) is a British comedian, actress, writer, and podcaster who has been performing since 2007.[2] She is a member of the improvisational comedy group Austentatious, the host and creator of Griefcast, and an improv teacher.[3]

Cariad Lloyd
Lloyd in 2018
Born	Katie Cariad Lloyd (1982-08-21) 21 August 1982 (age 40) Barnet, London, England[1]
Alma mater	University of Sussex
Occupation	Comedian actor
Years active	2006–present
Children	2
Website	cariadlloyd.com

Lloyd was nominated in 2011 for Best Newcomer at the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut solo show, Lady Cariad's Characters. She also won the Edtwinge award for most positively tweeted-about show during the Fringe.[4] Griefcast has won several awards, including best Entertainment Podcast and Podcast of the Year at the British Podcast Awards and an ARIA Award for Best Podcast. [5]

Early life

Lloyd was born in London. She is of Welsh descent on her father’s side.[6] Her father died of pancreatic cancer when she was 15.[7]

She studied English literature at the University of Sussex, where she first met her friend and fellow comedian Sara Pascoe.[8] Lloyd worked with Pascoe as a tour guide on open-top buses in London.[9]

Career

Television and radio work

Lloyd has performed in numerous sketches on BBC Comedy Online including Funtime (a Dawson Bros. pilot), The Proposal[10] and Dirty Dancing.[11] She has performed for the BBC Radio 4 shows Newsjack, My First Planet, The Now Show, Small Scenes and The Guns of Adam Riches.

Lloyd has appeared on television shows such as Channel 4's Cardinal Burns and CBBC's Fit and DNN and in films such as Baby Cow Productions' Caravan and Film4's Hallo Panda.

She wrote and performed in her own comedy pilot for BBC3, The Cariad Show. In May 2014, BBC Radio 4 aired a pilot for The Cariad Radio Show, which was featured on the BBC Comedy of the Week podcast. Since 2014 she has been co-writing and performing in the BBC Radio Wales sketch comedy show Here Be Dragons.

In 2014 Lloyd starred as Holly in the BBC Three comedy pilot Vodka Diaries and as Poppy in the comedy series Give Out Girls on Comedy Central. In 2015 she played Dawn, a warden in a young offenders' institution in the BBC Three comedy series Crims. In 2016 she appeared in the initial two episodes of Walliams & Friend on BBC One. She was also a series regular, playing several semi-improvised characters on Murder in Successville with Tom Davis.

Lloyd is a regular panellist on QI, having appeared in 12 episodes as of January 2022. She has also appeared on Have I Got News for You, Would I Lie to You?, The News Quiz and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

She appeared in the final series of Peep Show as Megan.

In 2020 she appeared in Sara Pascoe's comedy series Out of Her Mind for BBC television.[12]

In March 2021, she presented the BBC Radio 4 programme What Have We Learnt About Grief? This programme mentioned the work of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

Live performance

Lloyd has performed in a variety of live shows since 2006, including The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd[13] at Edinburgh Festival Fringe[14] in 2012. In 2013, she performed in The 50 Hour Improvathon at Hoxton Hall,[15] and The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd at Soho Theatre[16] among others.[17] In 2014 she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with Louise Ford in Cariad and Louise's Character Hour.[18]

Lloyd is a member of the improvisational comedy group Austentatious. In 2014 the show won the Chortle Award for Best Character, Improv or Sketch Act,[19] and two DVDs of one of their live shows have been released by Go Faster Stripe in 2015 and 2018.[20] Other members of the group include Rachel Parris, Amy Cooke-Hodgson and Joseph Morpurgo.

Writing

In August 2019 it was announced that Lloyd is writing a book on grief called You Are Not Alone to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing.[21] It is set to be published in 2023.[22]

Podcasts

Lloyd created and hosts the podcast Griefcast, a series of conversations about death, bereavement, and coping with the loss of a loved one. It has won several awards, including: "Best Entertainment Podcast", "Best Interview Podcast" and "Podcast of the Year" at the British Podcast Awards[23] and an ARIA Award for "Podcast of the Year".[24]

Lloyd has appeared on other comedians' podcasts including Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown in 2012, Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast in 2016 and Do the Right Thing in 2017.[25][26]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012–14	Comedy Feeds	Various/Holly	Episodes: "Dawson Bros. Funtime", "The Cariad Show" and "Vodka Diaries"
2013	Badults	Fiona	Episode: "Past"
2014	Give Out Girls	Poppy	Main role
2014	Crackanory	Mary Hardacre / Sheila / Tamsin	Live action actor
2014	Siblings	Debbie	Episode: "Balcombe Funeral"
2014	Toast of London	Lindy Makehouse	Episode: "Buried Alive"
2015	Crims	Dawn	Recurring role
2015	The Delivery Man	Alice	Episode: "Truth"
2015	Inside No. 9	Gemma	Episode: "Séance Time"
2015–17	Murder in Successville	Various	Series regular
2015, 2017, 2019	Have I Got News for You	Guest panellist	Episodes: 49.07, 53.05 and 57.05
2015	Peep Show	Megan	Series 9
2015–19	QI	Panellist	Episodes: "Miscellany", "Making a Meal of It", "Naming Names", "Nature/Nurture", "Noodles", "Organisms", "Objects and Ornaments", "Pubs", "Phenomenal", "Quintessential", "Qanimals", "Secrets, Spies and Sleuths"
2015	I Want My Wife Back	Keeley	Series Regular
2016	Drunk History: UK	Anne Boleyn
2016, 2017	8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown	Panellist	Episodes: 8.02, 11.07 and 14.01
2017	Josh	Karen	Series 3 Episode 3: "Bicycles & Babies"
2017, 2020	Pointless Celebrities	Contestant	Episodes: Aired 10 February 2018; 18 January 2020
2018	Would I Lie to You?	Panellist	Series 11 Episode 7
2019	This Time with Alan Partridge	Alice Fluck	Series 1 Episode 1
	Hypothetical	Guest	Series 1 Episode 8
	Lee and Dean	Dani	Series 2 Episodes 1 to 5
2020	Tourist Trap	Llinos Lyn	Episode "Screen"
	Sick of It	Stallholder	Episode "Use by Date"
	Out of Her Mind	Scoopy	5 episodes
	The Witchfinder	Dorothy	1 episode

References

External links

• Official website
• Griefcast
• Cariad Lloyd at British Comedy Guide

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