Sue Perkins
Birthday: Born in 1969-09-22 in East Dulwich, London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Susan Elizabeth Perkins is an English actress, broadcaster, comedian, presenter and writer. Originally coming to prominence through her comedy partnership with Mel Giedroyc in Mel and Sue, she has since become best known as a radio broadcaster and television presenter, notably of The Great British Bake Off (2010–2016), Insert Name Here (2016–2019) and Just a Minute (since 2021) on BBC Radio 4.
TV Credits
The One Show
Character: Self
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One....
The Terry and Gaby Show
Character:
The Terry and Gaby Show was a daytime television show broadcast on Five on weekday mornings between June 2003 and April 2004, produced by Chris Evans' company UMTV. It was hosted by Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin. The opening titles featured Gaby dressed up like a movie star driven to the studio in a limo and walking on red carpet to the door. Meanwhile Terry, carrying a briefcase, rode a rickety old bicycle across London and parked it outside the back door before quietly entering the building thr...
We Need Answers
Character: Self - Contestant
We Need Answers is a British television panel game presented by comedians Mark Watson, Tim Key and Alex Horne. The show features a pair of celebrities answering questions which have previously been texted in by the public, or the audience, to 63336, a text message service....
Countdown
Character:
The clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility....
8 Out of 10 Cats
Character: Self
8 Out of 10 Cats is a British television comedy panel game produced by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by company Harris Poll. The show's title is derived from a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas cat food, which originally claimed that "8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas"....
Richard & Judy
Character: Self
Richard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. The show originally aired on Channel 4, from 2001 to 2008, but later moved to digital channel, Watch, in October 2008. The programme featured a number of celebrities and a book club. Its final episode aired in July 2009 due to low ratings....
Hypothetical
Character: Self
Hosted by Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster, top comedians are posed absurd hypothetical situations and scored on how well they would deal with them. Over three rounds, two teams of comedians must think fast as they are faced with a series of completely made-up scenarios and interrogated on their approach to each one. Host Josh Widdicombe poses the questions and interrogates the guests' methods, whilst James Acaster, as arbiter of the Hypotheticals, deals with the guests quibbles and queries and...
The Supersizers...
Character: Presenter
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture of years gone by....
What the Dickens?
Character: Team Captain
What the Dickens is a television panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Team captains were Dave Gorman and Tim Brooke-Taylor for the first series and Sue Perkins and Chris Addison for the second and third. It is recorded at Sky Studios in West London....
Dinotopia
Character:
Frank Scott, a wealthy American, crashes his plane into the Caribbean. His two teenaged sons, Karl and David, survive, only to find themselves castaways on Dinotopia. Karl and David are constantly at odds, even as they struggle to adjust to life in their strange new world where talking dinosaurs live side by side in an uneasy alliance with humans....
V Graham Norton
Character: Self
V Graham Norton was an entertainment programme shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom starring Graham Norton, broadcast every weeknight as a successor to the weekly So Graham Norton. It aired from 6 May 2002 to 26 December 2003. It featured celebrities who chatted with Graham and became involved in studio games which were usually laden with sexual innuendo. The studio games were later featured on the clip show Nortonland in 2007 on digital channel Challenge. The show featured a 'webcam', a ro...
Big Brother's Little Brother
Character: Self
Each week, the housemate evicted from the Big Brother house the previous week traditionally spends another week on Big Brother's Little Brother, answering questions and taking part in Call BBLB along with other features. The show also boasts celebrity guests and experts who come in to discuss and analyse the remaining Big Brother housemates....
Fist of Fun
Character: Woman with Imaginary Friend
Fist of Fun was a British comedy television and radio programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring. A lot of the show's comic material was adapted from Lee and Herring's radio programme Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World. Each episode of Fist of Fun featured several disparate sketches and situations. Fist of Fun began as a BBC Radio 1 series in 1993, before becoming commissioned as a television series on BBC Two in early 1995. It was broadcast at 9pm on Tuesday nights, and was successful...
Sue Perkins: Along the US–Mexico Border
Character: Self - Presenter
Sue Perkins goes on a journey along one of the most contentious borders in the world....
Would I Lie to You?
Character: Self
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts....
Taskmaster
Character: Self
Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, and with the help of his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne, they will set out to test the wiles, wit, wisdom and skills of five hyper-competitive comedians. Who will be crowned the Taskmaster champion in this brand new game show?...
Heading Out
Character: Sara
Sara is a woman approaching middle age who is popular and successful - she's a veterinarian so skilled that she can spay a tortoise using just one hand - but has a chink in her armour: she's afraid to tell her parents that she is a lesbian. So on the eve of her 40th birthday, friends Jamie and Justine give Sara an ultimatum - either tell her parents next time mum and dad visit or they will....
Insert Name Here
Character: Self - Host
Comedy panel show about people with the same first name, hosted by Sue Perkins....
QI
Character: Self
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'....
The One Show
Character: Self - Guest
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One....
Sue Perkins' Big American Road Trip
Character: Host
Sue Perkins experiences the modern phenomenon of #vanlife in the USA, as she campervans across California and Colorado to discover the highs and lows of life on the road....
The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out....
The Bubble
Character: Self
The Bubble is news based celebrity panel game show. Three different celebrities are locked away in a media-free zone for four days. When they are released and take part on the show they have to decide which stories that have been in the media are true or have been made up....
Just a Minute
Character: Self
Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003. The object of the game is for panellists to talk for sixty seconds on a given subject, "without repetition, hesitation or deviation". The comedy comes from attempts to keep within these rules and the banter among the participants. In...
Blankety Blank
Character: Self - Panellist
Bradley Walsh presents the triumphant return of Britain's blank-iest game show. Can he control his celebrity panel and help contestants win the coveted cheque book and pen?...
Game of Thrones
Character: Narrator
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond....
Casualty
Character: Dr. Lloyd
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
The Ganges with Sue Perkins
Character:
Sue Perkins undertakes an epic, personal journey to the source of India's Ganges river in the Himalayas, meeting hermits and holy men to understand the sacred nature of this river....
The Great British Bake Off
Character: Self - Presenter
This British television baking competition selects from amongst its competitors the best amateur baker. The series is credited with reinvigorating interest in baking throughout the UK, and many of its participants, including winners, have gone on to start a career based on baking....
The Last Leg
Character: Self
Adam Hills and co-hosts Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker provide some offbeat commentary on the significant moments of the past seven days....
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
Character:
Lee Mack wrangles a team of scientists and celebrity guests to find the truth behind the trivia on this bizarrely educational panel show....
Room 101
Character: Self
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101....
World's Most Dangerous Roads
Character:
Celebrities drive on some of the most dangerous roads around the world, tackling impossible conditions to reach their goals....
Celebrity Masterchef
Character:
Chef and restaurateur John Torode and food writer and ingredients expert Gregg Wallace search for the country's top celebrity chef....
The Horne Section Television Programme
Character:
One half of Dave's own Taskmaster - Alex Horne - has a side career: he's the leader of a band called The Horne Section. They've already performed with some of the biggest names in music and comedy and now they've scored their very own two-hour special featuring Alex and the band's spontaneous and free-wheeling combination of live music and comedy. Recorded at the London Palladium, the jazz/comedy hybrid features guest performances from Nadine Coyle, Sue Perkins, Sara Pascoe and Joe Wilkinson....
Celebrity Big Brother
Character: Self - Contestant
Celebrity Big Brother is a British reality television game show in which a number of celebrity contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize being donated to the winner's nominated charity at the end of the run....
All Roads Lead Home
Character: Herself
Sue Perkins, Alison Steadman and Stephen Mangan use a new form of navigation, Natural Navigation, in order to learn more about the UK and the areas that mean something to them....
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Character: Self - Presenter
Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme....
Inside No. 9
Character: Uncredited, 'The One Show' footage
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'....
The Mekong River with Sue Perkins
Character: Self - Presenter
Sue Perkins embarks on a life-changing, 3,000-mile journey up the Mekong, South East Asia's greatest river, exploring lives and landscapes on the point of dramatic change....
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
Character: Self - Presenter
Comic Relief takes over the Great British Bake Off tent. Different celebrity faces battle it out with their baking skills to claim one of the coveted Comic Relief Star Baker titles....
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
Character: Self - Host
Well-known faces don their aprons in this charity special. Who has got what it takes to go all the way and compete for the Great Sport Relief Bake Off crown?...
Mock the Week
Character: Self
Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment....
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief
Character: Self - Presenter
Celebrity acts sing and dance to iconic pop tracks, all in aid of Comic Relief....
Apple & Onion
Character: Bakewell Tart (voice)
In a world of talking food, best mates Apple and Onion fumble through city life, tackling ordinary problems by extraordinary means....
Sue Perkins: Lost In Alaska
Character: Self - Host
Sue discovers the great state of Alaska, America's last frontier: a place of extreme weather, wildlife, wilderness and ways of life....
Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal
Character: Self - Host
There are bizarre, very unusual and extremely shocking activities that, despite the risk and associated dangers, are just legal in South American countries. Sue Perkins is eager to take advantage of this, and enjoys experiencing these adventurous yet dangerous challenges. In this way she hopes to defy and hopefully cover up her middle age....
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
Character: Self - Expert
Michael McIntyre hosts a gameshow packed with huge stars, big laughs and a giant spinning wheel. Can the contestants, guided by celebrity experts, answer their way to a fortune?...
Japan with Sue Perkins
Character: Herself - Presenter
From sumo wrestling to robots, Japan's traditions and high-tech innovations fuel host Sue Perkin's cultural exploration in this docuseries....
The Greatest Snowman
Character: Self - Host
Sue Perkins hosts the epic snowman building competition, where celebrities aim to show the most powdery prowess and sculpt the most impressive snow creations...
Giles And Sue Live The Good Life
Character: Herself - Presenter
In celebration of The Good Life's 35th birthday, Giles Coren and Sue Perkins step back in time to 1975 to find out what it takes to make the self-sufficient dream a reality....
The John Bishop Show
Character:
Every week John Bishop will be doing his trademark everyman stand-up and shooting the breeze with some very special celebrity guests. Star interviewees will include the hottest names in film, TV, sport, music and more in front of a live studio audience. John will also be checking the global comedy pulse with a team of stand-ups from all over the world....
All Round to Mrs. Brown's
Character: Self
Mrs Brown opens the doors to her house for a Saturday night entertainment show in which she and the family are joined by celebrity guests....
The Big Narstie Show
Character: Self
Grime legend and social media sensation Big Narstie hosts an anarchic studio show along with his co-host, and the hottest comedian in town, Mo Gilligan....
Sue Perkins: Lost in Thailand
Character: Self - Host
Sue Perkins explores three regions of Thailand, meeting extraordinary people and animals....
The Big Spell
Character: Herself - Host
Sue Perkins hosts as the country's brightest spellers aged between nine and 13 compete in a series of word-related games and challenges, displaying a combination of speed, skill and brains to deconstruct words many have never even heard of, let alone spelled, before. Comedian Joe Lycett reports from backstage, where the youngster and their parents are making last-minute preparations, while newsreader Moira Stuart officiates as the show's pronouncer...
Patriot Brains
Character: Host
The fast-paced comedy panel show will see each country’s greatest comedian’s pitted against each other to find out who knows their country best, with our host the only thing keeping them apart....
Hitmen
Character: Fran
Having stumbled into a career in contract killing, misfits Fran and Jamie are not your typical killers for hire. Working out of their scruffy van, each episode follows the hapless duo as they try to carry out their latest hit, inevitably derailed by incompetence, bickering, and inane antics. As each hit goes south, our (anti)heroes are thrown into one bizarre misadventure after another, each full of oddball characters and unexpected dilemmas....
Celebrity Catchphrase
Character:
In this entertaining series packed with laughs, celebrity contestants attempt to work out catchphrases based on fun animations. Animations include well known phrases, sayings and even film, song and book titles. The celebrities need to buzz in as quickly as they can when they know the answer and can say what they see in a chance to win money for their chosen charities....
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Character: Self
One of Britain’s favourite comedians doing what he does best – being funny. But Alan Davies isn’t on a stage, or behind his QI desk sparring with Stephen Fry, or even wearing his Jonathan Creek duffle coat… instead, Alan is at his most relaxed and most natural – sitting around chatting with some of his best comedian friends....
Comedy Game Night
Character: Team Captain
Two teams of celebs battle it out in a series of hilarious party games....
Our Lives
Character: Self - Narrator
Celebrating life in the UK in all its diversity – as seen through the eyes of remarkable people doing extraordinary things....
Big Fat Quiz
Character: Self - Contestant
Presenter Jimmy Carr oversees a panel of top-name celebrities in this year end quiz show where they compete to see who can answer the most questions correctly....
Sue Perkins' Big Adventure: Paris to Istanbul
Character: Self - Host
Comedian Sue Perkins embarks on an adventure along the route of the Orient Express, tracing the path through the heart of Europe, exploring vibrant cultures and stunning landscapes, and meeting the people who give each city its unique identity....
Have I Got News for You
Character: Self
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs....
Mary's Foolproof Dinners
Character: Self
Mary shares her wit and wealth of cookery know-how with her celebrity pals, all keen to keep up in the kitchen. Success every time, in a joyful celebration of food with friends....
The Horne Section TV Show
Character: Self
Alex Horne steps out of Greg Davies' shadow as he gets the chance to host his own late-night chat show with his loyal band. But will all go to plan in this mash-up of comedy, celebs, music and mayhem?...
Movie Credits
International Men's Day
Character: Narrator (Voice)
In a parallel world where women rule the roost and 'Masculists' are written off as angry men burning boxers, a group of downtrodden men are convinced that the only way to rid themselves of their insecurities is to plot a sex strike against their wives....
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Character: Judy Graymer (The Producer)
Jennifer Saunders and a host of famous faces star in this hilarious Comic Relief reimagining of the hit movie featuring some of ABBA's biggest hits as well as a peek behind the scenes....
Queer Planet
Character: Narrator (voice)
When it comes to 'what Mother Nature intended', it turns out she was pretty open-minded. In this vivid, funny and eye-opening one-off doc we take the audience on a journey to explore the rich diversity of animal sexuality....
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Character: Self
imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on satire, silliness and, above all, friendship....
Making Qi
Character: Self
Behind the scenes documentary on British panel show Qi....
How to Build a Girl
Character: Emily Bronte
The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel....
Revealing Anne Lister
Character: Self - Presenter
Early 19th-century England is usually seen through the eyes of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters. Sue Perkins explores a dramatically different version, as lived and recorded by Anne Lister. A Yorkshire landowner, she kept a detailed, partly coded diary, revealing graphic details of her love affairs with women. Regency England was surprisingly tolerant of Anne's chosen lifestyle, and it was only when Anne sought to sink a coal mine on her land that criticism of her private life became public....
Last Christmas
Character: Ice Show Director
Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn....
Mrs Dickens' Family Christmas
Character: Herself - Presenter
Looking at the marriage of Charles Dickens through the eyes of his wife Catherine, Sue Perkins exposes the lesser-known reality of the Dickens family Christmas....
Climbed Every Mountain: The Story Behind the Sound of Music
Character: Herself - Presenter
The Sound of Music is one of the most enduringly popular films ever made, yet behind it lays an even more astonishing family story. Sue Perkins travels to Salzburg, Ellis Island and Vermont to discover how the family made a living in America as the Trapp Family Singers and they eventually bought an estate in Vermont which looks uncannily like Austria. She also discovers that the ultimate feel good story has dark undertones, is disliked by Austrians, and witnesses the first ever performance of th...
Kolkata with Sue Perkins
Character: Herself - Presenter
Sue Perkins immerses herself in the complex life of Kolkata and sees how it is reinventing itself as a megacity with a reputation for eccentricity, culture and tolerance....
Game of Thrones: The Story So Far
Character: Presenter
The story of Game Of thrones before the TV series....
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Character: Self
Since 2017, Letters Live has produced 11 shows at the Union Chapel, with no two shows being the same....
The Horne Section
Character:
Taskmaster's Alex Horne has a side career: he's the leader of a band called The Horne Section. They've already performed with some of the biggest names in music and comedy and now they've scored their very own two-hour special featuring Alex and the band's spontaneous and free-wheeling combination of live music and comedy....
Take That's Greatest Days: 30 Years in the Making
Character: Herself
Peek behind the scenes of Take That's new film Greatest Days about the band's army of fans. Hear from filmmakers, celebs and the band about why this vital story had to be told....