Harriet Kemsley

Harriet Kemsley

Born: January 21, 1987
in Canterbury, Kent, UK
Kemsley began stand-up in 2011 and within months won the Funny's Funny contest. In 2012, she won Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year and Brighton Comedy Festival New Act of the Year and was named by Rhod Gilbert as one of the Ten Must See Comics of 2012. Her autobiographical solo show, Slutty Joan, was reviewed positively in The Guardian.

She hosts a podcast, Why Is Harriet Crying?, with fellow comedian Sunil Patel.

Kemsley has appeared on Sam Delaney's News Thing, Roast Battle, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats. She and then-fiancé Bobby Mair appeared on a Viceland reality show in 2017, entitled Bobby & Harriet Get Married, featuring their wedding, officiated by comedian Romesh Ranganathan.

As an actress, she has appeared in the film Bonobo and on TV on Damned and Doctor Foster. She also provided the voice of Nashandra, the final boss of the video game Dark Souls II.

Movies for Harriet Kemsley...

Harriet Kemsley: Woman Child
Title: Harriet Kemsley: Woman Child
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 2023
Type: Movie
In her debut stand-up special, Harriet takes bad aim at being married (for now), motherhood and the beauty industry.
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Title: Grave New World
Character: Harriet
Released: March 31, 2021
Type: TV
Stuart Laws takes an in-depth look at life after a pandemic and how the familiar we knew has changed forever. This mini series gets some of the UK's best comedians to ask the questions we've been afraid to ask like "What?", "How?" and "Why?"
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Title: This Is My House
Character: Self
Released: March 24, 2021
Type: TV
Fake yourself at home. Four people, three fibbers, one house. Stacey Dooley challenges celebrity sleuths to nose around and figure out the real owner.
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Title: Mission: Accessible
Character: Self - Guest
Released: November 11, 2020
Type: TV
Rosie Jones is on a mission to help disabled people plan fun-filled adventures. With her comedian pals in tow, Rosie visits places across the UK to compile a guide to the accessible British vacation.
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Title: Guessable
Released: October 5, 2020
Type: TV
Packed with plenty of take-away trivia, Guessable involves two celebrity teams competing to identify the famous name or object inside a mystery box. Sara Pascoe hosts the show with John Kearns on hand as her assistant. Alan Davies and Darren Harriott are the team captains, in a format that puts a twist on classic family games.
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You Build The Thing You Think You Are
Title: You Build The Thing You Think You Are
Character: Mother
Released: July 20, 2020
Type: Movie
In 2018 Joz Norris had a breakdown that made him afraid to leave his own flat. In 2019 he was evicted from that flat and had to say goodbye to the identity he had constructed for himself in the eight years he lived there. You Build The Thing You Think You Are is an absurdist storytelling show about how we construct ourselves, about the accumulation of rubbish both in our heads and in our homes, about feeling more at home in your mind than in your body, and about the struggle to ever share any of this stuff with another human being. It's about a Romanian Troll/Goblin thing who just wants to sing the hits and learn how to dance; about a Van Morrison gig that accidentally came to be the cornerstone of a personality; and about a gong bath so profound that it caused someone's spine to grow by two inches.
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Title: Pants on Fire
Character: Self - Guest
Released: October 10, 2019
Type: TV
Emma Willis hosts this comedy bluffing show in which three daredevil teams attempt some of the stupidest, bravest but often pointless challenges in locations around the globe, and then have to convince a celebrity jury they have been successful - even if they haven't.
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Title: Pants on Fire
Character: Self - Challenger
Released: October 10, 2019
Type: TV
Emma Willis hosts this comedy bluffing show in which three daredevil teams attempt some of the stupidest, bravest but often pointless challenges in locations around the globe, and then have to convince a celebrity jury they have been successful - even if they haven't.
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Title: The Ranganation
Character: Self
Released: May 19, 2019
Type: TV
Romesh Ranganathan, joined by celebrity guests and the Ranganation, his very own focus group of 25 members of the public, takes a funny, topical look at modern Britain.
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Title: Hypothetical
Character: Self
Released: February 6, 2019
Type: TV
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 doles out the points.
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Title: Roast Battle
Character: Self
Released: January 15, 2018
Type: TV
It's comedy’s closed thing to a sport – comedians battle it out with the most brutal jokes imaginable.
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Title: Richard Osman's House of Games
Character: Self - Contestant
Released: September 4, 2017
Type: TV
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.
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Title: Bobby and Harriet Get Married
Released: August 2, 2017
Type: TV
A Naturally hilarious slice of life mini series, that follows the natural comic genius that is Bobby Mair and Harriet Kemsley, they have found love in each other & they try to plan the perfect wedding. Watch them navigate their finances, wedding plans, Uber addiction, writing the perfect vows, Venue, Dj, Tinder profile, plastic surgery, sex faces, uninvited guests, sabotage, unromantic gestures, Personal Demons & Allergies. Mix it altogether with old inappropriate friends, 2goats, mood swings, a pinch of doubt and a few famous faces. This is a laugh out loud funny look at the very real ups and downs involved in relationships, with hilarious conclusions.
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Bonobo
Title: Bonobo
Character: Helen
Released: December 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Judith, an uptight divorcee, is appalled when her daughter Lily quits law school to move into a commune of hippie-misfits who live according to the behavioural principles of the bonobo monkey, a species famous for its 'make love not war' philosophy.
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Title: Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Character: Self
Released: June 16, 2014
Type: TV
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.
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Title: 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Character: Self - Contestant
Released: April 12, 2013
Type: TV
Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz.
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Title: Comedy Central at the Comedy Store
Character: Self - Host
Released: September 3, 2010
Type: TV
Join Comedy Central at The Comedy Store to see Britain's best comics perform at London's best comedy club.
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Title: 8 Out of 10 Cats
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 2005
Type: TV
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".