WHO IS? Kerry Godliman

With Kerry, 47, having joined the judging panel on Great British Christmas Menu (8pm, BBC2), we look at the life and career of the London-born actor and comedian…

● Kerry was born on November 17, 1973 in ● Kerry is also known for her appearances on Perivale, west London. She trained at the Rose comedy showcases, panel games and quizzes, Bruford College of Theatre & Performance, a including Mock The Week, Live At The Apollo,

drama school in the London suburb of Sidcup. Michael Mcintyre’s Big Show, Taskmaster,

● She made her TV debut as an unnamed Hypothetical, Ultimate Worrier and 8 Out WPC in a 1998 episode of Casualty and, Of 10 Cats. She is also a regular on Radio 4, after a series of bit parts, joined the cast and has been a guest on The News Quiz, of the Channel 4 sketch show Spoons The Now Show and Just A Minute.

(2005). It was her role as nursing home

● Memory Lane is her new, 12-part manager Hannah in Ricky Gervais’s podcast in which, each week, she Derek (2012) that brought her to invites a celebrity friend to talk wider attention; since then, she has

about five particularly important gone on to star in Carters Get Rich

photographs from their life.

(2017), Bad Move (2017) and Save

Me (2018), as well as reuniting ● Kerry is married to fellow actor with Gervais on his Netflix black Ben Abell, and the couple have two comedy drama After Life (2019). children: Elsie, 13, and Frank, ten.