Julia Charlotte L. Davis (born 25 August 1966) is an English comedian,
actress, writer, and director. She is known for writing and starring
in the BBC Three comedy Nighty Night (2004â€"2005) and the comedies
Hunderby (2012â€"2015) and Camping (2016), which she also directed. An
eight-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won Best Comedy Writing for
Hunderby in 2013. She played Dawn Sutcliffe in Gavin & Stacey
(2007â€"2009, 2019). Her film roles include Love Actually (2003),
Cemetery Junction (2010) and Four Lions (2010) and the critically
acclaimed Phantom Thread (2017) starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Davis
created Sally4Ever in 2018, which won a British Academy Television
Award for Best Scripted Comedy in May 2019.Davis was born in Lambeth,
to a secretary mother and a civil servant father, and grew up in
Guildford before moving at the age of 14 to Bath, Somerset. After
studying for a degree in English and Drama at the College of Ripon and
York St John, she returned to Bath, working at Tesco, and "dead-end
jobs", starting a comedy double-act The Sisters of Percy with her
friend Jane Roth at a local theatre group. It grew to an improvisation
troupe with Welsh radio DJ Rob Brydon and Ruth Jones.Davis' sketches
sent to BBC Radio 4 led to her first commission, in 1998 Five Squeezy
Pieces, a Radio 4 all-female sketch comedy show, with Meera Syal and
Arabella Weir. Weir introduced her to Arthur Mathews and Graham
Linehan who cast her as a regular cast member in the television sketch
show Big Train (1998). Her career gained a further boost in 1998 after
she sent a tape of various characters to Steve Coogan, who invited her
to write for and participate in his shows during his 1998 national
tour. Chris Morris, director of the Big Train pilot, cast her for his
1997â€"1999 radio series Blue Jam, its successor Marchâ€"April 2000 TV
show Jam, and Brass Eye.
actress, writer, and director. She is known for writing and starring
in the BBC Three comedy Nighty Night (2004â€"2005) and the comedies
Hunderby (2012â€"2015) and Camping (2016), which she also directed. An
eight-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won Best Comedy Writing for
Hunderby in 2013. She played Dawn Sutcliffe in Gavin & Stacey
(2007â€"2009, 2019). Her film roles include Love Actually (2003),
Cemetery Junction (2010) and Four Lions (2010) and the critically
acclaimed Phantom Thread (2017) starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Davis
created Sally4Ever in 2018, which won a British Academy Television
Award for Best Scripted Comedy in May 2019.Davis was born in Lambeth,
to a secretary mother and a civil servant father, and grew up in
Guildford before moving at the age of 14 to Bath, Somerset. After
studying for a degree in English and Drama at the College of Ripon and
York St John, she returned to Bath, working at Tesco, and "dead-end
jobs", starting a comedy double-act The Sisters of Percy with her
friend Jane Roth at a local theatre group. It grew to an improvisation
troupe with Welsh radio DJ Rob Brydon and Ruth Jones.Davis' sketches
sent to BBC Radio 4 led to her first commission, in 1998 Five Squeezy
Pieces, a Radio 4 all-female sketch comedy show, with Meera Syal and
Arabella Weir. Weir introduced her to Arthur Mathews and Graham
Linehan who cast her as a regular cast member in the television sketch
show Big Train (1998). Her career gained a further boost in 1998 after
she sent a tape of various characters to Steve Coogan, who invited her
to write for and participate in his shows during his 1998 national
tour. Chris Morris, director of the Big Train pilot, cast her for his
1997â€"1999 radio series Blue Jam, its successor Marchâ€"April 2000 TV
show Jam, and Brass Eye.
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