Susy Kane (born 27 August 1978, in

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, Surrey, England) is an English actress, comedy writer and musician.

Personal life

She is the daughter of opera singer Alison Warner and actor and writer John Kane, and the younger sister of comedy writer and actor

Simon Kane Simon Kane (born 9 October 1967 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former race car driver, but now works as a sound technician in television. Career Kane started in Formula Fords in the late 1980s and proceeded to the new Formula H ...

. Her father is a former associate artist of the

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and is the creator and writer of British sitcom ''

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''. She is of

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and

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ancestry. She grew up in Wandsworth, London and won a scholarship to

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in the sixth form. She studied Chinese, Art and Film at the

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. She lives in London and Los Angeles.

Career

A singer, jazz pianist and classically trained violinist she started singing in jazz clubs when she was 16. She has written event music for the

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and played gypsy fiddle for the

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album ''

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''. Her TV credits include ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Extras Christmas Special'', ''

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'', ''

The IT Crowd ''The IT Crowd'' is a British sitcom originally broadcast by Channel 4, written and directed by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry. Set in the offices of the fict ...

'', ''

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'', '' Endeavour'', ''

A Touch of Cloth ''A Touch of Cloth'' is a British television comedy series created and written by Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier, shown on Sky One. A parody of British police procedural dramas, it stars John Hannah as Jack Cloth, a police detective with per ...

'', '' Death in Paradise'', and , ''

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''. She was also a leading contributor to ''Funny Or Die UK'' as a writer, actress and director. On radio she plays Pippa in the long running and award-winning comedy series ''

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'' on

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and

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in the BBC's award-winning recreation of the missing episodes of ''

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''.Susy Kane's CV from her agent's website
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"'s "

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" for its third season as Caroline Denby. In 2018 she played Cynthia in the feature film '' Stan and Ollie'' with

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and

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. In 2018 she narrated the Channel 4 Documentary "The Million Pound Holiday Club". In 2019 she joined the cast of cult US TV show ''

'' playing Lamar's (

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) French muse Genevieve. In season 2 episode 9 she sings a French mariachi version of "The Impossible Dream". Her acapella version of

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's "Nature Boy" was also used in season 1 episode 6, and appears on the

Soundtrack album, which was released in December 2019. Also in 2019 she starred in

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comedy pilot "Chasers" as Samantha Darling, opposite

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, Matt Walsh,

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, and Cathy Shim.Susy Kane on IMDB
/ref> She has written sketches for topical BBC radio sketch show ''Recorded For Training Purposes'', ''BBC Comedy Shuffle'', ITV's ''Comedy Cuts'', BBC Three's Rose D'Or winning CGI sketch show ''

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'' and BAFTA award winning series ''

Harry and Paul ''Harry & Paul'' (originally titled ''Ruddy Hell! It's Harry & Paul'') is a British sketch comedy show starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 13 April 2007. Prior to broadcast it was trailed as ''The Ha ...

'' starring

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and

Paul Whitehouse Paul Julian Whitehouse (born 17 May 1958) is a Welsh actor, writer and comedian. He was one of the main stars of the BBC sketch comedy series ''The Fast Show'', and has also starred with Harry Enfield in the shows '' Harry & Paul'' and ''Harry ...

, also for the BBC. Her pilot script "Jurgatory" based on her time doing jury service sold to FX Channel in the US in 2014.

Television

Radio

*'' It Is Rocket Science'' *''

'' *'' Bullet at Balmains'' *'' Recorded For Training Purposes'' *'' The Missing Hancocks''

Film

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Stan & Ollie ''Stan & Ollie'' is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jon S. Baird. The script, written by Jeff Pope, was inspired by ''Laurel and Hardy: The British Tours'' by A.J. Marriot which chronicled the later years of the comedy double ...

'' (2018)

References

Current CVCurrent CV

External links

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Agent's web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kane, Susy English television actresses English television writers English women comedians 1978 births Living people People from Dorking People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of the University of Edinburgh English radio actresses British women television writers