Emma Sidi

Emma Sidi is an actress, comedian and writer for radio, stage and screen.[1]

Early and personal life

Sidi's father Paul, who had previously played top level Rugby union for Harlequins in London, was working in banking in the US when Sidi was born. The family left when Sidi was three years old and her father would retrain as a physiotherapist in Chertsey, Surrey. Sidi was brought up and schooled near Woking, before studying French and Spanish at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which included a spell living in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in Mexico.[2] Sidi was a member of the Cambridge Footlights.[3]

Career

Stand-up

Sidi was a finalist for the NATYS: New Act of the Year Show in 2016.[4] Her solo shows have often included Sidi playing many different characters. Sidi's Edinburgh Festival Fringe show ‘Character Breakdown’, in 2015, saw her play six different roles, including a feminist professor who delivers a lecture entirely in Spanish. Sidi's 2016 show, ‘Telenovela’, a Mexican soap opera and a European woman who dreams of a life as a TV presenter. In 2018 her show '‘Faces of Grace'’ included an American fresh from a bizarre blind date and a tearful wannabe Love Island contestant. There was also an aspiring nurse described as having “a clench-jawed Katharine Hepburn style drawl”.[5][6][7]

Television and radio

Sidi appeared in W1A and as Vlogger Millipede in BAFTA-nominated Pls Like.[8] Sidi's other television appearances include in Stath Lets Flats, Drunk History, King Gary, Ghosts and in Starstruck with real life housemate Rose Matafeo.[9] Sidi has also written and performed on The Now Show[10] In June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic Sidi released La Princesa de Woking, a web pilot based on a character from her 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show in which a Spanish-language soap opera is set in a British cul-de-sac.[11] In July 2021 she appeared as Natalie, Secretary to ex-Prime Minister Henry Tobin, on the BBC radio comedy Party's Over.

References
  1. "Emma Sidi". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  2. Dessau, Bruce (7 February 2019). "Emma Sidi on how suburban adolescence inspired her character comedy". Evening Standard. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  3. Bennett, Steve (18 August 2015). "Emma Sidi: Character Breakdown". Chortle. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  4. Bennett, Steve (2 February 2016). "Naty New Act Of The Year final 2016". Chortle. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  5. Gilbey, Ryan (6 August 2018). "Emma Sidi: 'You can only fully write a character if you can love them'". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  6. Fleckney, Paul (18 August 2016). "Emma Sidi: Telenovela". Chortle. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  7. Bennett, Steve (17 August 2018). "Emma Sidi: Faces Of Grace". Chortle. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  8. Kalia, Ammar; Davies, Hannah J.; Virtue, Graeme; Harrison, Phil; Howlett, Paul (31 March 2021). "TV tonight: influencers attract ire in series three of Pls Like". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  9. Barr, Sabrina (20 April 2021). "BBC star recalls 'crazy' meeting with cut-throat LA exec who said to 'f*** your friends' on road to stardom". Metro. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  10. "The Now Show - Series 52 Episode 5". BBC Radio 4. 30 March 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  11. Gilbey, Ryan (10 January 2020). "La Princesa de Woking: Sex, Brexit and big hair in Emma Sidi's glorious spoof". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
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