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Diane Morgan (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress, comedian and writer. She is best known for playing Philomena Cunk on Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe and in other mockumentaries, as Liz in the BBC Two sitcom Motherland and Kath in the Netflix dark comedy series After Life. She also wrote and starred in the BBC Two comedy series Mandy.

Diane Morgan
Born	(1975-10-05) 5 October 1975 (age 47) Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
Occupation	Actress comedian writer
Years active	2001–present
Partner	Ben Caudell

Early life

Morgan was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester, one of two children of a physiotherapist,[1] on 5 October 1975.[2][3] She grew up in nearby Farnworth and Kearsley,[4][5] and studied at the East 15 Acting School in Loughton.[6] She said in a 2020 interview, "There were a few actors on [my father]'s side of the family: Julie Goodyear, Frank Finlay and Jack Wild. What a dynasty. We're like the Redgraves. Julie's got a touch of the Mandys, actually. Maybe I could cast her as Mandy's mum."[7]

Career

Morgan had a small part as Dawn in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights before a spell working various jobs, including as a dental assistant, a telemarketer, a potato peeler at a chip shop, selling Avon, and boxing up worming tablets in a factory.[6] She subsequently made her first attempt at stand-up comedy.[6] She was placed second in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year Award 2006 and as runner-up in the 2006 Funny Women Awards.[8]

Morgan and Joe Wilkinson later formed a sketch comedy duo called Two Episodes of Mash.[9] From 2008, they performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for three consecutive years,[10][11][12] and in 2010 they appeared on Robert Webb's satirical news show Robert's Web.[13] In 2012 the act completed its second BBC radio series[14] (co-starring David O'Doherty), and appeared in BBC Three's Live at the Electric.[15]

In 2012 she appeared in Him & Her, which features Wilkinson, and in 2013 she played Nicola in the TV series Pat & Cabbage.[16] In 2014 she made an appearance in the TV series Utopia, as Tess,[17] and in 2015 she appeared in two episodes of Drunk History.[18]

Morgan is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Philomena Cunk, an extremely dim-witted and ill-informed interviewer and commentator on current affairs. The character first appeared in a regular segment on Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe (2013–2015).[17] Cunk has since reappeared in other mockumentary contexts. In December 2016, she presented BBC Two's Cunk on Christmas.[19] In April 2018, the five-part historical mockumentary Cunk on Britain began broadcasting on BBC Two.[20][21] Also in 2018, Morgan wrote Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena, published by Two Roads on 1 November.[22][23] In December 2019, Morgan appeared as Cunk for short episodes of Cunk and Other Humans, once again on BBC Two. She returned in a one-off episode of Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe titled Antiviral Wipe, about the COVID-19 pandemic, in May 2020.[24]

Morgan played David Brent's public relations guru in the film David Brent: Life on the Road (2016). She has appeared in several short films, including The Boot Sale, which was shortlisted in the Virgin Media Shorts film competition 2010.[25][26]

In 2016 Morgan played Mandy in Sky One's comedy Rovers, appearing in all six episodes of the first series. She also appeared in the pilot for the BBC2 comedy We the Jury as Olivia.^{[citation needed]} She also plays receptionist Talia in Sky's comedy drama Mount Pleasant and Liz in the BBC2 sitcom Motherland.

Morgan plays Kath in the Netflix black-comedy series After Life, written by Ricky Gervais.[27] She starred in the Gold sitcom The Cockfields, again alongside Wilkinson,[28] and in comedy-drama Frayed in 2019. In 2019 she wrote, directed and starred in the BBC2 comedy short Mandy, described as "a comedy by Diane Morgan about Mandy, a woman who really really wants a sofa, and will stop at absolutely nothing to get it". Carol Decker appeared as herself in the short. It returned in August 2020 for the full series Mandy, with Shaun Ryder, Maxine Peake and Natalie Cassidy in guest roles. A Christmas special, "We Wish You a Mandy Christmas", loosely based on A Christmas Carol, was broadcast in December 2021.[29]

Also in 2020, Morgan played Gemma Nerrick in the British mockumentary Death to 2020, created by Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones.[30] She reprised the role in Death to 2021. She voiced the character 105E in the 2021 animated Cartoon Network series Elliott from Earth.

In April 2022, Morgan starred as Donna in the first episode of the seventh series of Inside No. 9.[31]

Personal life

Morgan lives in the Bloomsbury district of London with her boyfriend, BBC comedy producer Ben Caudell.[32]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Phoenix Nights	Dawn	Episode: "Stars in their Eyes"; uncredited
2003	La jalousie	Sally	Short film
2010	The Boot Sale	Diane
	Robert's Web	Various	4 episodes
2011–2012	Mount Pleasant	Talia	12 episodes
2012	The Royal Bodyguard	Sharon	Episode: "Bullets over Broad Street"
	Games On	Elaine Price	Episode: "XXXL"
	Get Lucky	Claire Trott	Short film
	The Work Experience	Susan Butler	6 episodes
	Him & Her	Gina	3 episodes
	Complaints		Video short
2013	Cheese by Mouth	Val	Short film
	Pat & Cabbage	Nicola	6 episodes
	Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa	Girl in crowd
2013–2020	Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe	Philomena Cunk	17 episodes
2014	Utopia	Tess	2 episodes
	The Mimic	Psychoanalyst	Series 2: Episode 3
	Paradise Males	Pam	Short film
	What's Wrong?	Woman
2015	Baguettes	Woman on bench
	Uncle	Suzan	Series 2: Episode 5
	Three Kinds of Stupid	Mittens
2016	Me Before You	Sharon
	Rovers	Mandy	6 episodes
	David Brent: Life on the Road	Briony Jones
	We the Jury	Olivia	Pilot episode
	Damned	Phoebe Ravenscroft	Series 1: Episode 4
2016–2018	Cunk on Britain	Philomena Cunk	5 episodes
2016–2021	Motherland	Liz	All 19 episodes
2017	Funny Cow	Margaret
2018	Chris P. Duck	Tracey	6 episodes
	Thawed	Diane	Short film; also writer
2018–2019	The Archiveologists		Voice only; 6 episodes; also writer
2019	The Cockfields	Donna	3 episodes
	Cunk & Other Humans on 2019	Philomena Cunk	6 episodes
2019–2021	Frayed	Fiona	12 episodes
2019–2022	After Life	Kath	All 18 episodes
2019–present	Mandy	Mandy Carter	14 episodes; also writer, director and creator
2020	Death to 2020	Gemma Nerrick
2021	Elliott from Earth	105E	Voice only; 2 episodes
	Intelligence	Charlotte	3 episodes
	Death to 2021	Gemma Nerrick
2022	Inside No. 9	Donna	Series 7 episode 1 [33]
	The Sandman	Gryphon	Voice only; Episode: "Dream of a Thousand Cats"
	Cunk on Earth	Philomena Cunk	[34]
	Our Boarding School	Narrator

References

External links

• Profile on agent's website
• Diane Morgan at IMDb
• Diane Morgan at British Comedy Guide

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Diane Morgan (Bolton, 1975) es una actriz, guionista y comediante británica,[1][2] reconocida por su participación en los falsos documentales Cunk on Christmas, Cunk on Shakespeare, Cunk on Britain y Cunk and Other Humans, y en las series de televisión Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, Motherland y After Life.[3] A finales de 2020 interpretó el papel de Gemma Nerrick en el falso documental Death to 2020.[4][5]

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