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Sarah Solemani (born 4 September 1982)^{[citation needed]} is an English actress, writer and activist, best known for starring in the BAFTA winning sitcom Him & Her,[1] playing Renee Zellweger's best friend Miranda in Bridget Jones's Baby, for which she was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Actress Award. She is also known for her roles in the British comedy TV series Bad Education and The Wrong Mans.

Sarah Solemani
Born	(1982-09-04) 4 September 1982 (age 39) Camden, London, England
Occupation	Actress, writer, playwright
Spouse(s)	Daniel E. Ingram ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	2

Early life

Solemani was born in the London Borough of Camden and grew up in Crouch End.^{[citation needed]} Her father is a Persian Jewish mathematics lecturer (now retired).^{[citation needed]}

After passing her A levels at the Henrietta Barnett School, she took a gap year before reading Social and Political Sciences (now the Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos) at New Hall, Cambridge and graduating with an MA (Hons).[2][3]

At Cambridge, she joined the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and became social secretary during her first year and then vice president.[4]

Career

Theatre

Solemani was a member of the National Youth Theatre during her gap year, starring as Elaine in the West End theatre production of The Graduate[4] and as 'Ayesha' in the critically acclaimed National Theatre production of Sanctuary.

Solemani was a member of the Young Writer's Group attached to the Royal Court Theatre, and a writer at the Young Vic Theatre. Two plays she wrote were produced at Soho Theatre.[2] Another of her works, The Cost of Things (2010), was presented at the Public Theater New York under the aegis of the Old Vic Theatre as part of the TS Eliot Project.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011, she wrote The Baron which received the Old Vic New Voices 'Ignite' award.[5]

In 2009, she appeared in Simon Stephens Pornography at the Tricycle Theatre in London and in 2012, she appeared as Maryam in the play The House of Bernarda Alba at the Almeida Theatre.[2] She wrote Up the Royal Borough, part of an evening of plays in response to Owen Jones' Chavs at the Lyric Hammersmith. It gained good reviews.[6]

Television and film

Solemani's first film role was as a tableaux girl in Mrs Henderson Presents, which she performed during her third year of college.[2] Her first major TV role was as "Becky" in BBC Three sitcom Him & Her, which was first broadcast in September 2010, and ran for four series ending in 2013.[7]

In 2012, Solemani starred in the BBC Three comedy, Bad Education,[8] including its spin off movie The Bad Education Movie. In 2013, she featured in the BBC and Hulu's The Wrong Mans alongside James Corden. She went on to reprise the role in the second series.[9] Solemani wrote and starred in an episode titled Aphrodite Fry in the Sky TV series Love Matters that aired in 2013.[10] In 2014, she wrote the television film The Secrets on BBC One at 9pm to critical praise.

In Hollywood, Solemani was chosen by Bill Hader and Alec Berg to be part of their writing team on Hader's new HBO show Barry. While working in the United States, she has found the American television industry has a more positive attitude towards commissioning work by women and featuring female characters in their series.[11]

Author Jo Bloom researched the anti-Nazi London 62 Group and events involving it in the summer of 1962, and wrote a novel, Ridley Road, published in 2014, with the Group's activities as a backdrop, named after a street in the East End of London where fascists held meetings and around which battles took place.[12][13] A television drama based on the book was written and adapted for television by Solemani, announced in 2019[14] for broadcast by BBC One in October 2021.[15]

Print

Solemani has contributed to the New Statesman,[16] The Guardian, The Independent and Harper's Bazaar.

She writes regularly for the publications Red and Glamour.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and acclaim

Solemani was awarded third place in the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust/New Statesman Prize for New Political Writing on the subject: "Do women's rights remain the privilege of the developed world?" in 2005.[17]

In 2011, Solemani won the Royal Television Society award for best Comedy Performance for her role in Him & Her along with her co-star Russell Tovey.[18]

In 2012, Solemani was named one of the year's Broadcast Hot Shots.[19]

Activism

Solemani is against the criminalisation of sex work, and has been a champion for sex worker rights since 2002.^{[citation needed]} She was nominated by the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) to represent them in Parliament in order to halt further efforts to criminalise clients. She was an active supporter of former shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in the 2015 Labour leadership contest. She has introduced Cooper at various Labour Party events and has contributed to her speeches.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Solemani married Daniel E. Ingram, a sustainable investment expert specialising in climate change,[20] in Petah Tikva, Israel, on 3 June 2012.[21][22] Their daughter was born in December 2013 and their son was born in May 2018.[23] Raised by an Orthodox Jewish father and a Plymouth Brethren evangelical mother, Solemani has formally converted to Judaism along with her husband.[24]

Filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Red Cap	Gillian Jennings	TV series
2005	Mrs Henderson Presents	Vera	Film
2006	Undone	Edna	Radio series
2006	Hyperdrive	Alien 1	TV series
2007	Living with Two People You Like Individually... But Not as a Couple	Antonia	TV series – pilot
2007	Roman's Empire	Jenny	TV series
2007	Suburban Shootout	Donna	TV series
2010–2013	Him & Her	Becky	TV series
2011	Silent Witness	Mary Olivant	TV series – episode 109 ("The Prodigal")
2011	Psychoville	Emily	TV series
2011	Coma Girl	Siobhan	TV series – pilot
2011	Uptown Downstairs Abbey	Lady Mary	TV series – special for Comic Relief
2012	The Borgias	Magdelena	TV series
2012	Skins	Celia Champion	TV series
2012–2014	Bad Education	Miss Gulliver[8]	TV series
2013	Love Matters	Aphrodite Fry[25]	TV series – episode 109 ("Aphrodite Fry")
2013–14	The Wrong Mans	Lizzie Green	TV series
2013	Crackanory	Narrator	TV series
2014	The Secrets	Charlotte	TV series
2015	The Bad Education Movie	Miss Gulliver[8]	Film
2015	Hector	Sara	Film
2016	The Five	Pru Carew	TV series
2016	Bridget Jones's Baby	Miranda	Film
2017	No Offence	DCI Christine Lickberg	TV series
2017	The Pact	Amy	TV pilot
2018	Wild Honey Pie!	Rachel Griffiths	Film
2019	How to Build a Girl	Angie	Film
2019	Greed	Melanie	Film
2020	Inside No 9	Emily	TV series - episode "Death Be Not Proud"
2021	Ridley Road		TV series - writer
2022	Chivalry	Bobby	TV series: also co-creator and co-writer

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	The Graduate	Elaine	Gielgud Theatre[26]
2007	Burning Cars		Hampstead Theatre[27]
2009	Pornography		Tricycle Theatre[28]
2012	The House of Bernarda Alba	Maryam	Almeida Theatre[29]

References

External links

• Sarah Solemani at IMDb

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