Ellie White
- 34 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and comedian
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Semi-Detached review
There may be questions over whether the furious pace can be sustained for the extra 50 per cent running time required for the traditional BBC sitcom half-hour. Or indeed whether such maelstroms of mayhem can be conjured up week after week. But this is a promising germ for that holy grail of comedy commissioners everywhere: a mainstream suburban sitcom that doesn't suck.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th January 2019The Windsors Royal Wedding Special review
Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie's ruthless comedy is a reminder that you can get away with a lot as long as you are funny.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 16th May 2018A wickedly witty send up but are the Windsors watching?
This Royal Wedding special was bursting with ideas like a box of exploding confetti.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 16th May 2018The Other One bigamy comedy returns
Bigamy sitcom The Other One - about two very different mother-and-daughter pairs brought together when their one, single husband/father dies - has been commissioned for a full series on BBC Two.
British Comedy Guide, 30th April 2018Ellie White: 'Can you be jealous of a book? I am'
The Windsors star and character comic on the things that make her laugh the most, from Cold Comfort Farm to Basil the Great Mouse Detective.
Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 13th October 2017The Other One, assuredly a pilot looking for a commission, written by the fab comedian Holly Walsh, was an unlooked-for delight, a fresh and wildly enjoyable half-hour about a just-dead charmer of a bigamist who turns out to have fathered two very-alive daughters, Cathy and Cat. Middle-middle-class Cathy has already downloaded all the TED talks on coping with grief; decidedly non-posh Cat, who's "this summer, finally completed Tinder", decidedly hasn't. They bond nevertheless, in new-found daughterdom and in wry grief.
Siobhan Finneran as one of the mums displays an unexpected and gleeful surefootedness for comedy, but the breakout find is Ellie White (Beatrice in The Windsors) who, as Cathy, dominates every scene with her subtly tremendous mix of unspoken class-horror, and kindness, and just-naughty-enoughness. I'm already a little in love. Expect - hope for, fervently - that commission, and an (equally deserved) run on the back-catalogue of Supertramp.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 17th September 2017Preview - The Other One
While BBC One has been busy with its Comedy Playhouse season of pilots, BBC Two has now beginning showing pilots too.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 13th September 2017Written by sometime Sharon Horgan collaborator Holly Walsh, this sitcom pilot acts as a showcase for four brilliant, but often underserved, comic talents: Ellie White, Lauren Socha, Siobhan Finneran and Rebecca Front. The former two play sisters - one posh, one not - who only discover each other's existence after their father dies suddenly. Tension is inevitable, but it's nothing a Supertramp singalong won't soothe. Here's hoping for a full series.
Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 13th September 2017Preview: The Other One
The first of BBC Two's new comedy pilots, The Other One, centres around two half-sisters who don't know about each other until their dad dies. Sophie Davies has had a sneak peek...
Sophie Davies, The Velvet Onion, 11th September 2017Top cast announced for BBC Two sitcom pilot The Other One
BBC Two has announced a new sitcom pilot about two sisters who had no idea about each other until their father drops dead. The cast includes Siobhan Finneran and Rebecca Front.
British Comedy Guide, 26th July 2017