Catherine Shepherd is an English comedic actress, writer and director.

Career

In the early 2000s Shepherd appeared in several

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comedies, as Daisy in the sitcom '' Think the Unthinkable'' alongside

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and David Mitchell, as Xanthe in ''

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'', and in James Cary's Radio 4 sketch show ''

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'', with

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. On television, she played the character April in the

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''. 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 ''

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'' episode "The Dinner Party" (first broadcast 14 September 2007). She appeared in '' The Peter Serafinowicz Show'' 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 BBC comedy show about the

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, ''

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'' (first broadcast 24 July 2012). In 2013, Shepherd narrated the audiobook ''Blue Sky Thinking'' by Ben Lewis. In October 2018, Shepherd played the title role in the HBO/

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sitcom '' Sally4Ever''. In 2019, she appeared in the BBC Comedy Short, ''Sorry'', alongside Lolly Adefope.

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