Award-winning actor, writer, and comedian-presenter Sally Phillips is currently starring in the comedy How to Please a Woman, which opens in theaters on July 29. She is known for her roles in I’m Alan Partridge, Smack the Pony, Green Wing and Miranda. She is also Clare in Radio 4’s Sony Award-winning Clare in the Community, Shazzer in the Bridget Jones trilogy and Minna Hakkinen, former Finnish PM in Veep. In 2016, she fronted the BBC2 documentary A World Without Down’s Syndrome?, exploring the UK screening policy’s ethical implications. It won the Radio Times Readers Awards and Sandord St Martin Awards for Best Single Documentary and was shown worldwide. In 2019 Sally and Ronni Ancona founded the production company Captain Dolly, a subsidiary of Film Soho, and they have scripts in development for both film and TV. Sally is currently writing The Wedding with Nisti Sterk and Nick Hornby for the Swedish Production company, Jarowski. Most recently Sally became the host of Sunday Morning Live, co-presenting with Sean Fletcher. (Photo by David Dare Parker.)
