--- name: "Diane Morgan" canonical: "https://film.one/person/diane-morgan" roles: ["Actor"] born: "5 October 1975" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 78 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-17T19:52:52.397687+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Diane Morgan Actor. Born 5 October 1975 in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 5 October 1975, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK - **Active:** 2013–present - **Also known as:** Philomena Cunk - **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as actor, over 2 titles - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Morgan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5271532, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1854269/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1543364 ## Coming up - *VisionQuest* (2026-10-14) — [page](https://film.one/tv/visionquest.md) - *Not Alone* (2027-03-18), as Welly (voice) ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Motherland*](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Diane Morgan > Diane Morgan's instrument is a flat Northern voice that cannot sound keen even when it tries, and she has built a career on pointing it at things. As Philomena Cunk it is a weapon; as Liz in *Motherland* it is a relief. Watch Liz at the school gate in *Motherland* (2017). Everyone else is performing: Amanda with the blow-dry and the kitchen, Anne agreeing, Julia sweating through the run to the bell. Liz stands slightly apart, smokes, lets her children go feral and says the thing the rest of the playground is thinking, in a voice with nothing in it. Morgan does not push a single line. She waits, says something short and awful, and the scene has to start again around her. It took a long while for anyone to notice what that voice could do. Morgan trained at East 15, took a first television part in Peter Kay's *Phoenix Nights* (2001), started stand-up in 2004 and worked a sketch double act with Joe Wilkinson, and for a decade the accent and the background counted against her rather than for her. Then in 2013 Charlie Brooker put her in front of a camera on *Weekly Wipe* as Philomena Cunk, a presenter who knows nothing and asks about it with complete confidence, and the flatness found its use. The Cunk mockumentaries followed. So did Kath in Ricky Gervais's *After Life* (2019), and from 2019 *Mandy*, which she created, wrote, directed and stars in. The Cunk act is easy to describe and hard to do. The joke is not the stupid question; it is that Morgan's face does not move while the expert opposite her decides whether to answer it. She has said herself that even when she tries to sound enthusiastic it comes out sarcastic, because it is just flat, and she is right, and she has been clever enough to write towards that rather than away from it. In *Motherland* the same stillness works as ballast. Punch's Amanda arrives with the knife half a second behind the smile; Morgan simply declines to be interested, which is funnier and takes less effort. We laughed at Liz more than at anyone else in that show, and it was the relieved kind of laugh, the one you give when somebody finally says it out loud and does not care who heard. The limit is plain. Flatness is one note, and Morgan has so far chosen parts that need exactly that note: the dim, the checked-out, the hapless. Whether she can be flat and frightened, or flat and in love, we have not yet seen her asked to be, and *Mandy* is her own writing, so nobody has asked. *Ann Droid* is next, in 2026, and the title suggests she knows precisely what people think she does. Start with *Motherland*, and count how few words she is given per episode against how many of the best laughs are hers. ## Biography Diane Morgan (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress, comedian and writer from Bolton, Greater Manchester. She is best known for portraying Philomena Cunk in *Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe* (2013–2020), *Cunk on Britain* (2018), *Cunk on Earth* (2022) and *Cunk on Life* (2024). Morgan played Liz in the BBC sitcom *Motherland* (2016–2022) and Kath in the Netflix series *After Life* (2019–2022). She created, writes and stars in the BBC comedy *Mandy* (2019–present) and appears in the 2026 series *VisionQuest*. *Sources: themoviedb.org, en.wikipedia.org, unitedagents.co.uk, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Motherland* (2017), Fi1m 74, as Liz — [page](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md) - *Utopia* (2013), Fi1m 83, as Tess — [page](https://film.one/tv/utopia.md) ## Complete filmography (55) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Not Alone* (2027), as Welly (voice) - *VisionQuest* (2026), series, Acting — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/visionquest.md) - *Ricky Gervais Alley Cats* (2026), series, as Olive (voice) - *Ann Droid* (2026), series, Linda, Executive Producer, Writer - *Rogue Trooper* (2026), as (voice) - *Open All Hours: Inside Out* (2026), as Voice over - *Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl* (2024), as Onya Doorstep (voice) - *Cunk on Life* (2024), Philomena Cunk, Writer - *The Underdog: Josh Must Win* (2024), series, as Narrator - *The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin* (2024), series, as Maureen - *Kiff* (2023), series, as Secretary Mom (voice) - *Motherland: Last Christmas* (2022), as Liz - *The Sandman* (2022), series, as Gryphon (voice) - *Death to 2021* (2021), as Gemma Nerrick - *We Wish You a Mandy Christmas* (2021), Mandy Carter, Writer, Director - *Elliott from Earth* (2021), series, Acting - *Death to 2020* (2020), as Gemma Nerrick - *Mandy* (2020), series, Mandy, Nan, Writer, Director, Creator - *Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe* (2020), as Philomena Cunk - *Cunk & Other Humans on 2019* (2019), series, as Philomena Cunk - *The Cockfields* (2019), series, as Donna - *Frayed* (2019), series, as Fiona - *After Life* (2019), series, as Kath - *Thawed* (2018), Diane, Writer - *Funny Cow* (2018), as Margaret - *Cunk on...* (2018), series, as Philomena Cunk - *CHRIS P.Duck* (2018), series, as racey - *The Archiveologists* (2018), series, (voice), Writer - *Motherland* (2017), series, as Liz — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md) - *Cunk on Christmas* (2016), as Philomena Cunk - *Damned* (2016), series, as Phoebe Ravenscroft - *We the Jury* (2016), series, Acting - *David Brent: Life on the Road* (2016), as Briony Jones - *Me Before You* (2016), as Sharon the Waitress - *Rovers* (2016), series, as Mandy - *Cunk on Shakespeare* (2016), as Philomena Cunk - *Baguettes* (2015), as Woman on Bench - *Paradise Males* (2014), as Pam - *What's Wrong?* (2014), as woman - *Inside No. 9* (2014), series, as Donna — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/inside-no-9.md) - *Moments of Wonder with Philomena Cunk* (2014), series, as Philomena Cunk, Creator - *Pat & Cabbage* (2013), series, as Nicola - *Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa* (2013), as Girl in Crowd - *The Mimic* (2013), series, as Psychoanalyst - *Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe* (2013), series, as Philomena Cunk - *Utopia* (2013), series, as Tess — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/utopia.md) - *The Work Experience* (2012), series, as Susan Butler - *Get Lucky* (2012), as Claire Trott - *Games On: Tent* (2012), Acting - *The Royal Bodyguard* (2011), series, as Sharon - *Comedy Blaps* (2011), series, Acting - *The Boot Sale* (2010), as Diane - *Mr. Right* (2009), as Blue Team Woman - *Phineas and Ferb* (2007), series, as Chowdina (voice) - *The Mandy Who Knew Too Much*, Mandy, Director, Writer ## Gallery - ![Diane Morgan](https://film.one/media/person/95916/gallery-32ced50a6d9c.jpg) Diane Morgan — P. 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