Liz Kingsman is an Australian comedian and actress.

Career

Comedy

In the mid-2010s she was in the improv trio ''Massive Dad'' alongside

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and Tessa Coates. She first performed her show ''One Woman Show'' in 2019, and later performed it at the Vault Festival in 2020, before a run at the

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from October 2021, and then the 2022

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, where she was nominated for the

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. She went on to perform ''One Woman Show'' in the West End and won The Times Breakthrough Award at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards, and was also nominated for the

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play The Noël Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre ...

. She took the show to the

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and in

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Acting

Kingsman after university began working as a runner on film productions, where her jobs included being a stand-in for

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on ''

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'' and

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on ''

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''. She was cast in British political comedy series '' Ballot Monkeys'' in 2015 and reprised her role in spin-off comedy series ''

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''. She appeared in two series of the British '' Channel 5'' 2016 mockumentary series '' Borderline'', as well as British comedy series '' Pls Like'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', and the French comedy series ''Icon of French Cinema''. She also appeared in

Rose Matafeo Rose Matafeo (; born 25 February 1992) is a New Zealand comedian, actress and TV presenter. She was a writer and performer on the New Zealand late-night comedy sketch show '' Funny Girls''. In 2018, she won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best S ...

comedy series '' Starstruck''. She appeared as an English parliamentary assistant in the pan-European comedy series ''

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''. The second series of which won the Comedy Drama and Sitcom Rose d'Or Award in November 2023. In 2024, she was confirmed in the cast for ''

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'' show '' I, Jack Wright''. That year, she had a guest role as Baroness Von Louth in

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comedy series '' The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin''.

Personal life

From

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, Australia, the daughter of graphic designers, she has a British mother with whom she would watch British comedies when she was growing-up. She attended

Durham University Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by r ...

in England, where she studied English and History and took-up sketch comedy. She later moved to London, and then

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kingsman, Liz Living people Australian people of English descent Alumni of Durham University Comedians from Sydney Australian comedy writers Australian stand-up comedians Australian women comedians Actresses from Sydney Writers from Sydney Date of birth missing (living people)