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(40)
tvWagging Rights
as Self · 2026 · 0.0
movieHamleys: Top 100 Toys of All Time
as Self · 2025 · 0.0
movieClash of the Comics
as Self · 2025 · 0.0
tvIain Stirling's Roast The Internet
as Self · 2025 · 5.0
movieHarriet Kemsley: Everything Always Works Out For Me
as Self · 2024 · 0.0
tvBattle In The Box
as Self · 2024 · 7.0
tvOut of Order
as Self - Guest · 2024 · 7.0
movieHarriet Kemsley: Woman Child
as Self · 2023 · 0.0
tvBig Brother: Late & Live
as Self · 2023 · 4.2
tvMAFS UK: It’s Official! With Lucinda Light
as Herself · 2023 · 0.0
tvThe Weakest Link
as Self - Contestant · 2021 · 6.0
tvNever Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self - Panellist · 2021 · 7.8
tvGrave New World
as Harriet · 2021 · 10.0
tvThis Is My House
as Self · 2021 · 5.0
tvMichael McIntyre's The Wheel
as Self - Expert · 2020 · 5.6
tvMission: Accessible
as Self - Guest · 2020 · 0.0
tvGuessable
as Self · 2020 · 5.7
movieYou Build The Thing You Think You Are
as Mother · 2020 · 0.0
tvPants on Fire
as Self - Guest · 2019 · 0.0
tvPants on Fire
as Self - Challenger · 2019 · 0.0
tvThe Ranganation
as Self · 2019 · 6.8
tvHypothetical
as Self · 2019 · 6.2
tvRoast Battle
as Self · 2018 · 7.3
tvRichard Osman's House of Games
as Self - Contestant · 2017 · 6.1