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 |
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2024 | An Evening With The Fast Show | Self |
2024 | Barry Humphries: Gloriously Uncut | Self |
2023 | Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - Gone Hogmanay Fishing | 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 | Self |
2021 | Two Doors Down - Series 5
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Beth |
2020 | Two Doors Down - Christmas Special | Beth |
2020 | The Moments That Made...
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Self |
2020 | Believe It! - Series 5
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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
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Ingrid |
2019 | Two Doors Down - Series 4
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Beth |
2018 | Believe It! - Series 4
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Online Vegan |
2018 | Believe It! - Series 4
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Mrs. Gold |
2018 | Believe It! - Series 4
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Self |
2018 | Believe It! - Series 4
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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
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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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Jenny |
2016 | Two Doors Down - Series 1
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Beth |
2015 | Drifters - Series 3
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Jenny |
2015 | Nurse
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Mrs Hamilton |
2015 | Boswell's Lives - Series 1 | Maria Callas |
2014 | Drifters - Series 2
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Jenny |
2014 | The Fast Show Special
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Various |
2014 | House Of Fools - Series 1
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Advert Wife |
2013 | Two Doors Down - Pilot | Beth |
2013 | Believe It! - Series 2
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Ensemble Actor |
2013 | Citizen Khan - Series 2
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Jackie |
2013 | Drifters - Series 1
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Jenny |
2013 | Down The Line - Series 5
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Ensemble Actor |
2012 | Believe It! - Series 1
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Ensemble Actor |
2011 | Sitcom Does...
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Self |
2011 | My Teenage Diary - Series 3
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Guest |
2011 | Jennifer Saunders: Laughing At The 90s | Self |
2011 | The Simon Day Show - Series 1
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Sarah |
2011 | Down The Line - Series 4
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Ensemble Actor |
2010 | Laughed Off The Page - Series 3
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Self |
2009 | Hotel Trubble - Series 1
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Sister Matic |
2008 | Chain Reaction - Series 4 | Host / Presenter |
2008 | Chain Reaction - Series 4 | Guest |
2007 | The Grumpy Guide To... - Series 2
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Self |
2007 | Tough Gig | Self |
2007 | The 100 Greatest Stand-Ups | Self |
2007 | Down The Line - Series 2
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Maria Novella |
2007 | Down The Line - Series 2
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Shareeta |
2006 | Down The Line - Series 1
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Ensemble Actor |
2005 | 29 Minutes Of Fame
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Guest |
2003 | Posh Nosh | Creator |
2003 | Posh Nosh
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Writer |
2003 | Posh Nosh
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Minty |
2001 | Smelling Of Roses - Series 2
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Kate |
2000 | The Fast Show - The Last Fast Show Ever
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Writer |
2000 | The Fast Show - The Last Fast Show Ever
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Various |
2000 | Smelling Of Roses - Series 1
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Kate |
2000 | Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) - Series 1
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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
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Writer |
1999 | The Fast Show - The Fast Show Night
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Various |
1999 | The Fast Show - The Fast Show Night
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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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Tanya Gray |
1998 | Goodness Gracious Me - Series 1
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Ensemble Actor |
1997 | Have I Got News For You - Series 14
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Guest |
1997 | The Fast Show - Series 3
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Writer |
1997 | The Fast Show - Series 3
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Various |
1997 | Harry Enfield & Chums - Series 2
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Ensemble Actor |
1997 | Shooting Fish | Mrs. Stratton-Luce |
1996 | The Fast Show - Series 2
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Writer |
1996 | The Fast Show - Series 2
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Various |
1995 | The Lenny Henry Christmas Show
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Ensemble Actor |
1995 | The All-New Alexei Sayle Show - Series 2
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Writer (Additional Material) |
1995 | The All-New Alexei Sayle Show - Series 2
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Ensemble Actor |
1994 | Takin' Over The Asylum
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Paula |
1994 | The Fast Show - Series 1
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Writer |
1994 | The Fast Show - Series 1
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Various |
1994 | The All-New Alexei Sayle Show - Series 1
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Ensemble Actor |
1993 | Bonjour La Classe
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Granddaughter |
1993 | One Foot In The Grave - Series 4
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Sonia |
1992 | KYTV - Series 2
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Ensemble Actor |
1990 | Harry Enfield's Television Programme - Series 1
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2nd Wife |
1989 | Alexei Sayle's Stuff - Series 2
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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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