Aisling Bea
- 40 years old
- Irish
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Irish actor Aisling Bea on writing This Way Up in lockdown while filming the new Home Alone movie reboot, women's inner lives and her abiding love of potato waffles.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 30th October 2021Aisling Bea's perfect response to her English accent
The comedian, actor and writer took to Twitter after people questioned why the Irish star was speaking with an English accent in the just-released trailer for Home Sweet Home Alone.
The Poke, 13th October 2021This Way Up: chaotic coming-of-age black comedy
There's nothing two dimensional about this beautifully layered, hilarious and romantic post-breakdown comedy.
Natasha Sholl, The Guardian, 6th September 2021Jo Hartley to star in mockumentary film Swede Caroline
Jo Hartley is to star in Swede Caroline, a new British comedy film about competitive giant vegetable growers.
British Comedy Guide, 20th August 2021This Way Up - more soppy soap than sitcom
This is an antic melodrama that wanders from the woebegone to the whimsical.
Liam Fay, The Times, 24th July 2021Aisling Bea interview
Aisling Bea's comedy-drama This Way Up is seriously funny. But there's still space between the laughs for nods to big issues like Grenfell and Windrush.
Adrian Lobb, The Big Issue, 24th July 2021Interview: Aisling Bea and her make-up artist cousin
The Irish comedian and actress and her cousin James Mac Inerney on appearing in Glow Up and working in TV.
The Times, 21st July 2021Aisling Bea interview
"I like playing someone who makes the other characters laugh and sells the jokes when the character makes jokes."
Rachel Leishman, The Mary Sue, 19th July 2021This Way Up review
Aisling Bea leavens a comedy about mental illness with the filthiest of jokes.
Victoria Segal, The Sunday Times, 18th July 2021The week in TV: This Way Up
Aisling Bea's pitch-perfect, bittersweet comedy is back.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 18th July 2021