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Arabella Weir
Arabella Weir

Arabella Weir

  • 66 years old
  • British
  • Actor and writer
Arabella Weir

Arabella Weir is a British comedian, actor, and writer, best known for her television roles in The Fast Show and Posh Nosh. An accomplished author and journalist, her book Does My Bum Look Big In This? was an international bestseller, and she has also written numerous articles for The Guardian and The Independent.

Year Production Role
2024 An Evening With The Fast Show Self
2024 Barry Humphries: Gloriously Uncut Self
2023 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - Gone Hogmanay Fishing
  1. Gone Hogmanay Fishing (Scotland)
Self
2023 Two Doors Down - Series 7
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Beth
2023 Comedy Classics: Fawlty Towers Self
2023 One Foot In The Grave: 30 Years Of Laughs Self
2022 Two Doors Down - Series 6
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Beth
2022 Believe It! - Series 6
  1. E2 - Stuff
  2. E3 - Party
  3. E4 - Holiday
Self
2021 Two Doors Down - Series 5
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Beth
2020 Two Doors Down - Christmas Special Beth
2020 The Moments That Made...
  1. E1 - Elaine C. Smith
  2. E2 - Richard Wilson
  3. E3 - Jack Docherty
Self
2020 Believe It! - Series 5
  1. E1 - Brand
Self
2020 The Fast Show: Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases
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Writer
2020 The Fast Show: Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases
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Self
2020 Glasgow International Comedy Festival Self
2020 Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big In This? Self
2019 Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This? Self
2019 Cornbury Festival Self
2019 Pure
  1. E1 - Episode One
Ingrid
2019 Two Doors Down - Series 4
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Beth
2018 Believe It! - Series 4
  1. E4 - Meal
Online Vegan
2018 Believe It! - Series 4
  1. E3 - Boyfriend
Mrs. Gold
2018 Believe It! - Series 4
  1. E1 - Scotland
Self
2018 Believe It! - Series 4
  1. E1 - Scotland
Nicola Sturgeon
2018 Two Doors Down - Series 3
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Beth
2017 Two Doors Down - Christmas Special Beth
2017 Believe It! - Series 3
  1. E2 - Truth
Sheila Kaufmann
2017 The Allotment Sally
2016 Two Doors Down - Series 2
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Beth
2016 Drifters - Series 4
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  1. E4 - Homeless
  2. E5 - Sober
  3. E6 - Funeral
Jenny
2016 Two Doors Down - Series 1
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Beth
2015 Drifters - Series 3
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  1. E1 - Roomies
  2. E2 - Skint
  3. E5 - Plus One
  4. E6 - Wedding
Jenny
2015 Nurse
  1. E2 - Episode Two
Mrs Hamilton
2015 Boswell's Lives - Series 1
  1. E2 - Boswell's Life Of Callas
Maria Callas
2014 Drifters - Series 2
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  1. E1 - Rock N Roll
  2. E3 - Goole
Jenny
2014 The Fast Show Special
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Various
2014 House Of Fools - Series 1
  1. E5 - The Birthday Affair
Advert Wife
2013 Two Doors Down - Pilot Beth
2013 Believe It! - Series 2
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Ensemble Actor
2013 Citizen Khan - Series 2
  1. E5 - Shazia's Gym Visit
Jackie
2013 Drifters - Series 1
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Jenny
2013 Down The Line - Series 5
  1. E2 - Episode Two
Ensemble Actor
2012 Believe It! - Series 1
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  1. E1 - Drink
  2. E2 - Rivals
  3. E3 - Boots
  4. E4 - Power
Ensemble Actor
2011 Sitcom Does...
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Self
2011 My Teenage Diary - Series 3
  1. E4 - Arabella Weir
Guest
2011 Jennifer Saunders: Laughing At The 90s Self
2011 The Simon Day Show - Series 1
  1. E1 - Geoffrey Allerton
Sarah
2011 Down The Line - Series 4
  1. E6 - Episode Six
  2. E7 - Episode Seven
Ensemble Actor
2010 Laughed Off The Page - Series 3
  1. E6 - Arabella Weir
Self
2009 Hotel Trubble - Series 1
  1. E11 - A Sistery Mystery
Sister Matic
2008 Chain Reaction - Series 4
  1. E4 - Arabella Weir interviews Paul Whitehouse
Host / Presenter
2008 Chain Reaction - Series 4
  1. E3 - Richard Wilson interviews Arabella Weir
Guest
2007 The Grumpy Guide To... - Series 2
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  1. E1 - Class
  2. E2 - Work
  3. E3 - Teenagers
  4. E4 - Money
  5. E5 - Romance
Self
2007 Tough Gig Self
2007 The 100 Greatest Stand-Ups
  1. E1 - The 100 Greatest Stand-Ups 2007
  2. E2 - 100 Greatest Stand-Ups 2010
Self
2007 Down The Line - Series 2
  1. E6 - Episode Six
Maria Novella
2007 Down The Line - Series 2
  1. E3 - Episode Three
Shareeta
2006 Down The Line - Series 1
  1. E2 - Episode Two
Ensemble Actor
2005 29 Minutes Of Fame
  1. E5 - Episode Five
Guest
2003 Posh Nosh Creator
2003 Posh Nosh
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  1. E1 - Fish and Chips
  2. E2 - Birthday Parties
  3. E3 - Paella
  4. E4 - Beautiful Food
  5. E5 - Bread and Butter
  6. E6 - Leftovers
  7. E7 - Sauces
  8. E8 - Comfort Food
Writer
2003 Posh Nosh
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  1. E1 - Fish and Chips
  2. E2 - Birthday Parties
  3. E3 - Paella
  4. E4 - Beautiful Food
  5. E5 - Bread and Butter
  6. E6 - Leftovers
  7. E7 - Sauces
  8. E8 - Comfort Food
Minty
2001 Smelling Of Roses - Series 2
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Kate
2000 The Fast Show - The Last Fast Show Ever
  1. E1 - Part One
  2. E2 - Part Two
  3. E3 - Part Three
Writer
2000 The Fast Show - The Last Fast Show Ever
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  1. E1 - Part One
  2. E2 - Part Two
  3. E3 - Part Three
Various
2000 Smelling Of Roses - Series 1
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Kate
2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) - Series 1
  1. E4 - Paranoia
Judith Milton
2000 Five Squeezy Pieces - Series 2 Writer
2000 Five Squeezy Pieces - Series 2 Ensemble Actor
2000 The Creatives - Series 2 Tanya Gray
1999 The Fast Show - The Fast Show Night
  1. Special - You Ain't Seen These, Right?
Writer
1999 The Fast Show - The Fast Show Night
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  1. Special - You Ain't Seen These, Right?
Various
1999 The Fast Show - The Fast Show Night
  1. Special - Suit You, Sir! The Inside Leg Of The Fast Show
Self
1998 Ted & Ralph Henrietta Gladstone
1998 Ted & Ralph Mrs Jenkins
1998 Ted & Ralph Ralph's Mother
1998 Five Squeezy Pieces - Series 1 Writer
1998 Five Squeezy Pieces - Series 1 Ensemble Actor
1998 The Creatives - Series 1
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  1. E1 - Soup Family Robinson
  2. E2 - Jumpcut
  3. E3 - Pocy Pola
  4. E4 - Backwards Scottish Nutcase
  5. E5 - Come to Cummerton
  6. E6 - Black
Tanya Gray
1998 Goodness Gracious Me - Series 1
  1. E4 - Episode Four
Ensemble Actor
1997 Have I Got News For You - Series 14
  1. E5 - Episode Five
Guest
1997 The Fast Show - Series 3
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E6 - Episode Six
  6. E7 - Episode Seven
  7. E8 - Episode Eight
Writer
1997 The Fast Show - Series 3
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
  7. E7 - Episode Seven
  8. E8 - Episode Eight
Various
1997 Harry Enfield & Chums - Series 2
  1. E1 - Episode One
Ensemble Actor
1997 Shooting Fish Mrs. Stratton-Luce
1996 The Fast Show - Series 2
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E3 - Episode Three
  3. E4 - Episode Four
  4. E5 - Episode Five
  5. E6 - Episode Six
  6. E7 - Episode Seven
  7. Special - Christmas Special
Writer
1996 The Fast Show - Series 2
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
  7. E7 - Episode Seven
  8. Special - Christmas Special
Various
1995 The Lenny Henry Christmas Show
  1. Episode One
Ensemble Actor
1995 The All-New Alexei Sayle Show - Series 2
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E6 - Episode Six
Writer (Additional Material)
1995 The All-New Alexei Sayle Show - Series 2
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E6 - Episode Six
Ensemble Actor
1994 Takin' Over The Asylum
  1. E4 - Fool On The Hill
  2. E5 - Rainy Night In Georgia
  3. E6 - Let It Be
Paula
1994 The Fast Show - Series 1
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  1. E3 - Episode Three
  2. E4 - Episode Four
  3. E5 - Episode Five
Writer
1994 The Fast Show - Series 1
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  1. E1 - Episode One
  2. E2 - Episode Two
  3. E3 - Episode Three
  4. E4 - Episode Four
  5. E5 - Episode Five
  6. E6 - Episode Six
Various
1994 The All-New Alexei Sayle Show - Series 1
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  1. E2 - Episode Two
  2. E3 - Episode Three
Ensemble Actor
1993 Bonjour La Classe
  1. E3 - Vive La Revolution
Granddaughter
1993 One Foot In The Grave - Series 4
  1. E3 - Hearts Of Darkness
Sonia
1992 KYTV - Series 2
  1. E6 - Episode Six
Ensemble Actor
1990 Harry Enfield's Television Programme - Series 1
  1. E3 - Episode Three
2nd Wife
1989 Alexei Sayle's Stuff - Series 2
  1. E1 - Tinkering With Teeth
  2. E2 - Westward H2O
  3. E5 - Whistling Calculus For Tax Purposes
Ensemble Actor
1988 Les Girls Actor

Non-comedy TV and film credits may be found here:
Arabella Weir on IMDb

Born
Friday 6th December 1957 (66 years-old)
Nationality
British

Arabella Weir was born in San Francisco, California, and attended nursery in Washington D.C., where her father, former British ambassador Sir Michael Weir, was posted as a member of the British diplomatic corps. Later she would be educated at the Sacre Coeur Convent in Cairo, Egypt, and the French Lycée in London, England. During her childhood Weir spent many a summer with family friends and relatives in Scotland, and describes herself as 'culturally Scottish'.

Aged 9 she moved to Bahrain with her father, returning to London after passing the eleven-plus when her father was posted to New York. A pupil at Camden School for Girls, she went on to study drama at Middlesex Polytechnic. Weir's rather fractious relationship with her mother, and this rollercoaster-ride of a childhood that spanned the globe, became the subject of her debut one-woman show, Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big In This? The show's title is a pun on Weir's bestselling novel (see below), and she took the show to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival.

Weir was a writer for BBC Two sketch show The Fast Show[/c] from 1994 to 2001, and in 2013 became a main cast member on the BBC Two and BBC One sitcom Two Doors Down[/c], about Latimer Crescent residents Eric and Beth Baird, plus their neighbours and immediate family.

In 1998 Weir published the international bestselling book Does My Bum Look Big In This?, a catchphrase of her character "Insecure Woman" in The Fast Show.

In 2001, Weir took part in the Weakest Link Comedians Special.

She joined the cast of Calendar Girls at London's Noël Coward Theatre in November 2009, playing the role of "Chris Harper" until the play's run in the West End finished in January 2010.

From 2013 to 2016 Weir starred as Jenny in Drifters, an E4 sitcom about three female friends in their 20s. She also featured in the first two series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Believe It!, in which Richard Wilson, of BBC One sitcom One Foot In The Grave fame, narrates his semi-fictional autobiography. The title is a pun on Wilson's catchphrase in that earlier BBC sitcom: "I Don't Believe It!"

Weir is a close friend of actor David Tennant (indeed, Tennant lodged with her for five years in London), and they share an interest in Doctor Who. Weir voiced the female incarnation of the Doctor in the Doctor Who Unbound Big Finish episode Exile, and she also featured in the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas special entitled The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe.

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