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Harriet Kemsley

Harriet Kemsley

Born: 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
Hamleys: Top 100 Toys of All Time poster
Hamleys: Top 100 Toys of All Time
2025 • Self
Clash of the Comics poster
Clash of the Comics
2025 • Self
Harriet Kemsley: Everything Always Works Out For Me poster
Harriet Kemsley: Everything Always Works Out For Me
2024 • Self
Harriet Kemsley: Woman Child poster
Harriet Kemsley: Woman Child
2023 • Self
You Build The Thing You Think You Are poster
You Build The Thing You Think You Are
2020 • Mother
Bonobo poster
Bonobo
2014 • Helen