Lizzie Roper

Equally adept at stand-up, straight theatre or television comedy Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Roper was born in November 1967 and read drama at the University of Aberystwyth, where she was a member of acting group the Wardens. On graduation she trained at the Guildford School of Drama. Much of her early career was in stand-up, notably as Sadie Beige the Kosher Chicken Giblet Queen of Whitechapel and the dramatic Spanish singer Rita Poonami and she has performed several self-penned one woman shows including 'Peccadillo Circus', both nationally and at the Edinburgh Fringe where she also won plaudits for her title role in 'Julie Burchill: Absolute Cult' another solo show where Lizzie played the controversial journalist. Lizzie made her television debut in sitcom 'The Worst Week of My Life' in 2004 and has since undertaken a variety of parts in populist dramas, a recurring role in soap opera 'Hollyoaks' and in 2015-6 as the man mad sister of transgender Judy in comedy drama 'Boy Meets Girl' On stage she has acted in the West End in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' with Christian Slater and the musical 'Betwixt'.