Harriet Kemsley
Acting
1987-01-21 · 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.
Filmography
Unacceptable
2026 · Series
Hamleys: Top 100 Toys of All Time
2025 · Movie
Clash of the Comics
2025 · Movie
Iain Stirling's Roast The Internet
2025 · Series
LOL: Last One Laughing UK
2025 · Series
Harriet Kemsley: Everything Always Works Out For Me
2024 · Movie
Battle In The Box
2024 · Series
Out of Order
2024 · Series
Harriet Kemsley: Woman Child
2023 · Movie
Big Brother: Late & Live
2023 · Series
MAFS UK: It’s Official! With Lucinda Light
2023 · Series
The Weakest Link
2021 · Series
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2021 · Series
Grave New World
2021 · Series
This Is My House
2021 · Series
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
2020 · Series
Mission: Accessible
2020 · Series
Guessable
2020 · Series
You Build The Thing You Think You Are
2020 · Movie
Pants on Fire
2019 · Series
The Hit List
2019 · Series
The Ranganation
2019 · Series
Hypothetical
2019 · Series
Roast Battle
2018 · Series
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017 · Series
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
2017 · Series
Bobby and Harriet Get Married
2017 · Series
A Load of Croc
2016 · Series
Bonobo
2014 · Movie
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014 · Series
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
2013 · Series
The Last Leg
2013 · Series
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011 · Series
Pointless Celebrities
2011 · Series
Comedy Central at the Comedy Store
2010 · Series
Would I Lie to You?
2007 · Series
8 Out of 10 Cats
2005 · Series
Live at the Apollo
2004 · Series
Wagging Rights
Series