Catherine Shepherd is an English comedic actress, writer and director.
Career
In the early 2000s Shepherd appeared in several
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
comedies, as Daisy in the sitcom ''
Think the Unthinkable
''Think the Unthinkable'' is an audience sitcom about hapless management consultants, written by James Cary and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. It starred Marcus Brigstocke, David Mitchell, Catherine Shepherd, Emma Kennedy and Beth Ch ...
'' alongside
Marcus Brigstocke
Marcus Alexander Brigstocke (born 8 May 1973) is a British comedian, actor and satirist. He has worked in stand-up comedy, television, radio and musical theatre. He has appeared on many BBC television and radio shows.
Early life
Brigstocke is ...
and
David Mitchell, as Xanthe in ''
Ring Around the Bath'', and in
James Cary's Radio 4 sketch show ''
Concrete Cow'', with
Robert Webb
Robert Patrick Webb (born 29 September 1972) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and television personality. He is one half of the double act Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell. Webb and Mitchell both starred in the Channel 4 sitco ...
.
On television, she played the character April in the
sitcom
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ...
''
Peep Show
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Several historical media provided voyeuristic entertainment through hidden erotic imagery. Before the development of the c ...
''. She appeared in one episode of the second series in 2004, and returned eleven years later as a recurring character in series 9.
She appeared as Jessica in ''
The IT Crowd'' episode "The Dinner Party" (first broadcast 14 September 2007). She appeared in ''
The Peter Serafinowicz Show
''The Peter Serafinowicz Show'' is a British sketch comedy show written by and starring Peter Serafinowicz. Its debut was on 4 October 2007 at 21:30 on BBC Two as part of the newly launched "Thursdays Are Funny" brand on the channel and Thursda ...
'' which aired between 2007 and 2008, where she played multiple roles in the different sketches in the show.
In 2012, Shepherd appeared as Vicky Long in the final episode, "Loose Ends", of the
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'' (first broadcast 24 July 2012). In 2013, Shepherd narrated the audiobook ''Blue Sky Thinking'' by Ben Lewis.