Deborah Frances-White
Biography
Deborah Frances-White is a stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and Sunday Times best-selling author. She is best known as the creator and host of The Guilty Feminist podcast which has over 100 million downloads and has been performed live around the world at venues including The Royal Albert Hall, The Sydney Opera House, The Wellington Arena & The London Palladium. Her new book, Six Conversations We’re Scared to Have, is soon being published by Virago at Hachette. Her autographical stand-up storytelling BBC Radio show won The Writers’ Guild Award. Her award-winning independent film SAY MY NAME premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in 2019. Deborah has several scripts in development. She is an Amnesty International Ambassador. She founded the innovative improv company The Spontaneity Shop in 1997. She and her partner Tom Salinsky wrote The Improv Handbook which was published in 2008.
Known For & Full Filmography11 Titles
Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • as Self
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.
Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes • as Self
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • as Self
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.
Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Self - Panellist
This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Self - Panellist
Topical comedy-quiz show featuring five guests competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. A fast-paced, funny look at international affairs, politics, sport and entertainment news, we test just how well our contestants have been paying attention.
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Self - Panellist
Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme.
Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes • as Self
Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment.
Drama Series - 2020, 16 episodes • as Self
Sara Cox hosts this new book club bringing the nation together through sharing the pleasure of reading. Each edition features a celebrity panel discussing their favourite book and two review sections.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Miss Pilger
A council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Guest (non-speaking role)
You’re invited to the wedding of the year, as the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunite in this one-off sequel. Twenty-five years after the events of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Charles, Carrie, Fiona, Tom, David, Matthew, Bernard, Lydia and Father Gerald are back in church. But whose wedding is it - and will there be any more familiar faces?
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Kitty
Mary and Statton's one-night stand at a hotel gets interrupted by a robbery, and the complete strangers are forced to help each other navigate the seedy underbelly of a sleepy Welsh island in order to get back their stolen property.