Catherine Shepherd

Catherine Shepherd is an English comedic actress, writer and director In the early 2000s Shepherd appeared in several BBC Radio 4 comedies, as Daisy in the sitcom Think the Unthinkable alongside Marcus Brigstocke and David Mitchell, as Xanthe in Ring Around the Bath, and in James Cary's Radio 4 sketch show Concrete Cow, with Robert Webb. On television, she played the character April in the sitcom Peep Show. She appeared in one episode of the second series in 2004, and returned eleven years later as a recurring character in series 9. She appeared as Jessica in The IT Crowd episode "The Dinner Party" (first broadcast 14 September 2007). She appeared in The Peter Serafinowicz Show which aired between 2007 and 2008, where she played multiple roles in the different sketches in the show. In 2012, Shepherd appeared as Vicky Long in the final episode, "Loose Ends", of the BBC comedy show about the 2012 Olympic Games, Twenty Twelve (first broadcast 24 July 2012). In 2013, Shepherd narrated the audiobook Blue Sky Thinking by Ben Lewis In October 2018, Shepherd played the title role in the HBO/Sky Atlantic sitcom Sally4Ever. In 2019, she appeared alongside Lolly Adefope in the television short film Sorry, broadcast on BBC Two's Comedy Shorts programme.

Works

See Me

Three 16 year old school girls and their 30-something teacher are trapped in one room on a school detention. They are bored, frustrated and waiting for something to happen... And then it does.

Release Date: 2011-05-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Like a Virgin

A party girl discovers she has been chosen to bear God's child.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

8.0

The Love Box in Your Living Room

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse tell the true story of Britain’s evolution over the last century through the life of the BBC, by turning complete fictions into a staggering array of hard facts.

Release Date: 2022-10-27

Vote Count: 1

Sally4Ever
4.9

Sally4Ever

Sally4Ever follows the life of Sally, a soon-to-be promoted marketer who, for 10 years, has lived a comfortable and dull suburban life with David. But on the night he asks her to marry him, Sally has a crisis and embarks on a wild affair with Emma, a seductive, charismatic, boho actress, singer, musician, poet and author. Before Sally knows it, Emma has moved in, rearranged the furniture and her life. Is this really what Sally wants, or has she made a mistake?

Release Date: 2018-10-25

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Character: Sally

Episode Count: [ 7 ]

Vote Count: 24

7.5

Paddington 2

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Release Date: 2017-11-09

Character: Nelson's Mother

Vote Count: 2490

5.3

Red Top

Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and gets caught up in a seventies Watergate-style scandal.

Release Date: 2016-01-20

Character: Julie

Vote Count: 3

7.1

Paddington

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

Release Date: 2014-11-24

Character: Geographer (Present Day)

Vote Count: 3890

7.0

Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s

As part of the BBC2 50th anniversary celebrations comedians Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse were commissioned to produce this spoof history of the channel. It parodies the channel, its content and the history documentary.

Release Date: 2014-05-25

Character: Joan Bakewell Tart / Sue Perkins / Various

Vote Count: 1

Gates
7.0

Gates

Gates is a British comedy television series shown on the Sky Living channel. The first series of 5 episodes ran from 14 August to 11 September 2012. The show was originally due to be broadcast on Sky One but was delayed in order to launch on Sky Living as part of the channel's push into more female skewed comedy. The Show was filmed in Enfield, North London in August 2011 therefore making the show heavily delayed from its initial broadcast.

Release Date: 2012-08-14

Character: Sarah

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 3

7.8

The Hunt for Tony Blair

The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follows Prime Minister Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan), wanted for murder and on the run. Escaping from Number 10 and leaving behind his adoring wife Cherie (Catherine Shepherd), Tony vows to clear his name no matter what the consequences.

Release Date: 2011-10-15

Character: Cherie Blair

Vote Count: 4

Twenty Twelve
7.3

Twenty Twelve

A mock-documentary following the challenges - both personal and professional - faced by the team responsible for delivering the biggest show on Earth: the 2012 Olympics. From getting a busload of non-English speaking Brazilians from A to B, who to appoint to run the Cultural Olympiad and what to do when the much-vaunted wind turbines won't turn because there's no wind, it's all in a day's work for the men and women whose job it is to stage the greatest sporting event in the world.

Release Date: 2011-03-14

Character: Vicky Long

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 29

D.O.A

Tom,a junior doctor under suspension for fatally removing the wrong lung from a patient and nick-named Dr. Death,is working in Leeds as a paramedic with the knowing Julie,who sells sex aids from the back of the ambulance. After dealing with a man whose pet alligator bit his fingers off and a Goth who threw up so much an exorcist was brought in,Tom redeems himself by reviving an unconscious man. But he still has to deal with Rob Krizzo,the scruffy - and useless - lawyer engaged to fight his case and who accidentally injects him,not to mention Terence,from whose anus he once removed a mobile phone and who is now lustfully stalking him.And then girl-friend Lucy,another doctor,seems to be about to throw him over.

Release Date: 2010-10-24

Character: Lucy Carrington

The Peter Serafinowicz Show
7.3

The Peter Serafinowicz Show

The Peter Serafinowicz Show is a BBC Two comedy sketch show written and starring Peter Serafinowicz. The show is a mixture of sketches based on parodies of British television, using Peter's and other actor's impression notable television personalities.

Release Date: 2007-10-04

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 13

5.9

Magicians

A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.

Release Date: 2007-05-18

Character: Female Passenger

Vote Count: 71

The IT Crowd
8.2

The IT Crowd

Two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.

Release Date: 2006-02-03

Character: Jessica

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1431

My Life in Film
7.5

My Life in Film

Art is an independent film-maker with big ideas... sadly nobody will listen to these ideas, with the exception of his best friend Jones. The series follows Art as his overactive imagination turns every day into a cinematic classic, with homages to 'Top Gun' and 'The Shining' to name but a few.

Release Date: 2004-10-19

Character: Sally

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 12

Peep Show
8.0

Peep Show

Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.

Release Date: 2003-09-19

Character: April Danecroft

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 389

Backstage... at the Cambridge Footlights

Documentary of the 1997 Footlights, the theatrical club of Cambridge University.

Release Date: 1997-01-01

Character: Self

Two Weeks in August

Two Weeks in August

Set in Greece, a woman goes on holiday with her family and friends to rediscover joy in her life. But here in paradise, what starts with an illicit kiss, quickly turns the dream holiday into a nightmare. Zoe begins to act on her deepest desires and the holiday she hoped for becomes a reckoning for a group of adults who refuse to grow up. When they discover they are trapped on the island, and become faced with real life-or-death situations, the group soon turn on each other to find out who is to blame. Is Zoe responsible for the drama and destruction around her or, as heaven turns to hell, are bigger forces at play? We are in Greece after all, the land of the ancient Gods…

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 8

Hyperdrive
6.5

Hyperdrive

Set in 2151 and 2152, it follows the crew of HMS Camden Lock as they stumble through their heroic mission to protect British interests in a changing galaxy.

Release Date: 2006-01-11

Character: Arabella

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 28

Harry & Paul
6.6

Harry & Paul

Harry & Paul is a BAFTA Award-winning British sketch comedy show starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 13 April 2007. Prior to broadcast it was trailed as The Harry Enfield Show. The show reunites the pair, who had success with Harry Enfield's Television Programme in the 1990s. The second series of the programme began on BBC One on 5 September 2008. This was the last series from the comedy producer Geoffrey Perkins who died shortly before the programme's second series began. A third series was commissioned and began 28 September 2010 this time on BBC Two to where the show has been moved, because of falling ratings. The fourth series began broadcasting in October 2012.

Release Date: 2005-09-20

Episode Count: 24

Vote Count: 9

Black Books
8.1

Black Books

Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. Bearded, sweet and good, Manny is everything that Bernard isn’t and is punished by Bernard relentlessly just for the crime of existing. They depend on each other for meaning as Fran, their oldest friend, depends on them for distraction. Black Books is a haven of books, wine and conversation, the only threat to the group’s peace and prosperity is their own limitless stupidity.

Release Date: 2000-09-29

Character: Bridget

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 532

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