---
name: "Phoebe Waller-Bridge"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/phoebe-waller-bridge"
fi1m_id: "phoebe-waller-bridge"
imdb_id: "nm3564817"
tmdb_id: 1023483
wikidata_id: "Q16224046"
roles: ["Actor","Writer","Producer"]
born: "14 July 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-01T21:44:08.321091+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."
---

# Phoebe Waller-Bridge

## Identity

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/phoebe-waller-bridge
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** phoebe-waller-bridge
- **IMDb ID:** nm3564817
- **TMDB ID:** 1023483
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16224046
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Waller-Bridge, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16224046, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3564817/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1023483

Actor and writer. Born 14 July 1985 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 14 July 1985, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Also known as:** Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 8: 6 acting, 2 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Fiona Shaw](https://film.one/person/fiona-shaw.md), [Harry Bradbeer](https://film.one/person/harry-bradbeer.md), [Kathleen Kennedy](https://film.one/person/kathleen-kennedy.md), [Simon Emanuel](https://film.one/person/simon-emanuel.md)
- **Golden Globes:** 1 Golden Globe (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as actor, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 73 (5), 2020s 60 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 67 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 4 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 2, Adventure 2, Comedy 2, Crime 1, Family 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,083m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Waller-Bridge, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16224046, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3564817/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1023483

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny*](https://film.one/film/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny.md) (58), [*Solo: A Star Wars Story*](https://film.one/film/solo-a-star-wars-story.md) (58)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Fleabag*](https://film.one/tv/fleabag.md) (90)
- **Apple TV:** [*Killing Eve*](https://film.one/tv/killing-eve.md) (82)
- **Netflix:** [*IF*](https://film.one/film/if.md) (56)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Phoebe Waller-Bridge

> Phoebe Waller-Bridge writes women who lie to everyone around them and tell the camera the truth. *Fleabag* is as good as half-hour television gets; the film work since is a sideline, and she is better than her recent parts.

A woman in a conversation she would rather not be having glances at us without moving her head. That glance is the whole of *Fleabag*, and it is the one thing on television Phoebe Waller-Bridge owns outright. Plenty of characters talk to the camera. Hers does it to avoid talking to the people beside her, and the point is that we are the only ones she tells the truth to, and even then she leaves things out. Gary Dollner cuts the asides so short the other person has barely paused, and Harry Bradbeer and Tim Kirkby keep the camera close on her face, so for twelve episodes we watch her decide what to admit.

She started on stage. *Fleabag* was a one-woman play at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013, written after years of not being cast and after she and Vicky Jones had set up DryWrite in 2007 to make their own work. The series came in 2016, the same year as *Crashing*, a comedy she created and acted in, set in a disused hospital. Then *Killing Eve* (2018), which she created and ran for its first series: a bored intelligence agent chases an assassin and the chase becomes an obsession for both. There is no camera trick this time, and it shows what else she has. "My instinct is the more serious the scene, the more I need to undercut it," she said of it, and she trusts Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer to make two cold women worth following.

The habits have costs. The first series of *Fleabag* is coarser than it needs to be, rude for its own sake before it works out what the rudeness is hiding. *Killing Eve* clears obstacles for its women whenever the plot has to move, and we forgave it because we wanted to see what Oh and Comer did next, which is a compliment to them and not to the investigation. Still, nothing she has done since has got at us like the moment late in the first series of *Fleabag* when she turns to us and has nothing to say. Waller-Bridge holds the pause exactly as long as the jokes before it, and we felt caught out, as if we had been laughing at a confession without hearing what was being confessed.

Since 2018 she has mostly worked in other people's pictures: a voice in *Solo: A Star Wars Story* (2018), a share of the screenplay for *No Time to Die* (2021), Helena in *Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny* (2023) and Blossom, an imaginary friend with a butterfly's face, in *IF* (2024). Helena is the better part, a thief in Joanna Johnston's borrowed suits, quick and funny and never once sentimental about Harrison Ford's Jones. Blossom is a good design and a small job. Neither film is much and neither is her fault. Watch both series of *Fleabag*, then the first of *Killing Eve*. The films are for completists. What we want next is not another franchise but another camera she is allowed to look into.

## Biography

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born 14 July 1985) is an English actress, screenwriter and producer. She created, wrote and starred in the comedy series *Fleabag* (2016–2019). She also created and wrote the thriller series *Killing Eve* (2018–2022).

Waller-Bridge has acted in films including *The Iron Lady* (2011), *Solo: A Star Wars Story* (2018), *No Time to Die* (2021, as screenwriter) and *Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny* (2023) as Helena. She voiced Blossom in *IF* (2024). She also created the series *Crashing* (2016) and appeared in *Broadchurch* (2013).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (8)

### Performed in (6) — the average rests on these

- *IF* (2024), Fi1m 56, as Blossom (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/if.md)
- *Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny* (2023), Fi1m 58, as Helena — [page](https://film.one/film/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny.md)
- *Solo: A Star Wars Story* (2018), Fi1m 58, as L3-37 — [page](https://film.one/film/solo-a-star-wars-story.md)
- *Fleabag* (2016), Fi1m 90, as Fleabag — [page](https://film.one/tv/fleabag.md)
- *Broadchurch* (2013), Fi1m 81, as Abby Thompson — [page](https://film.one/tv/broadchurch.md)
- *The Iron Lady* (2011), Fi1m 52, as Susie — [page](https://film.one/film/the-iron-lady.md)

### Wrote (2)

- *No Time to Die* (2021), Fi1m 67, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/no-time-to-die.md)
- *Killing Eve* (2018), Fi1m 82, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/killing-eve.md)

## Complete filmography (37)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Big Bold Beautiful Journey* (2025), as Female Cashier
- *Octopus!* (2025), series, as Narrator (voice) · Executive Producer
- *Rule Breakers* (2025), as Dr. Jessica Curie
- *IF* (2024), as Blossom (voice) — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/if.md)
- *Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny* (2023), as Helena — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny.md)
- *No Time to Die* (2021), Screenplay — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/no-time-to-die.md)
- *Staged* (2020), series, as Phoebe
- *RUN* (2020), series, as Laurel Halliday · Executive Producer
- *His Dark Materials* (2019), series, as Sayan Kotor (voice)
- *National Theatre Live: Fleabag* (2019), as Fleabag · Writer
- *Mouche* (2019), series, Original Series Creator
- *Solo: A Star Wars Story* (2018), as L3-37 — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/solo-a-star-wars-story.md)
- *Killing Eve* (2018), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/killing-eve.md)
- *Careful How You Go* (2018), Actor
- *Goodbye Christopher Robin* (2017), as Mary Brown
- *The 12 Days of Christmas: A Tale of Avian Misery* (2016), as Narrator (voice)
- *Fleabag* (2016), series, as Fleabag · Writer, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/fleabag.md)
- *Crashing* (2016), series, as Lulu · Writer, Associate Producer, Creator
- *Incident on the Northern Line* (2015), Actor
- *Man Up* (2015), as Katie
- *Love at First Swipe* (2015), as Narrator (voice)
- *Glue* (2014), series, as Bee Warwick
- *London Irish* (2013), series, as Steph
- *Henry* (2013), as Karen
- *Broadchurch* (2013), series, as Abby Thompson — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/broadchurch.md)
- *Blandings* (2013), series, as Felicity
- *Bad Education* (2012), series, as India
- *The Iron Lady* (2011), as Susie — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/the-iron-lady.md)
- *Albert Nobbs* (2011), as Viscountess Yarrell
- *The Café* (2011), series, as Chloe Astill
- *Meconium* (2011), as Lorna
- *The Night Watch* (2011), as Lauren
- *Beautiful Enough* (2011), as (voice)
- *The Reward* (2010), as Charlotte
- *How Not to Live Your Life* (2008), series, as Felicity
- *Intangible* (2008), as Anna
- *Tomb Raider*, series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator

## Gallery

- ![Phoebe Waller-Bridge](https://film.one/media/person/11527/gallery-d3d5d5206e72.jpg) Phoebe Waller-Bridge — Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Nicola_Benedetti_Humza_Yousaf_Phoebe_Waller-Bridge_-_All_Festivals_Reception_%28Waller-Bridge_cropped%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![The First Minister hosted a reception to celebrate EXPO funded Edinburgh and Glasgow festivals at The Hub in Edinburgh The First Minister Humza Yousaf is pictur (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/11527/gallery-1d7fc87529d5.jpg) The First Minister hosted a reception to celebrate EXPO funded Edinburgh and Glasgow festivals at The Hub in Edinburgh The First Minister Humza Yousaf is pictur (2023) — Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/First_Minister_-_All_Festivals_Reception_-_53092017933.jpg/1280px-First_Minister_-_All_Festivals_Reception_-_53092017933.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![The First Minister hosted a reception to celebrate EXPO funded Edinburgh and Glasgow festivals at The Hub in Edinburgh. The First Minister Humza Yousaf is pictu (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/11527/gallery-050d6c502cfc.jpg) The First Minister hosted a reception to celebrate EXPO funded Edinburgh and Glasgow festivals at The Hub in Edinburgh. The First Minister Humza Yousaf is pictu (2023) — Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/First_Minister_-_All_Festivals_Reception_-_53092022808.jpg/1280px-First_Minister_-_All_Festivals_Reception_-_53092022808.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Fleabag - Wyndham's Theatre - Thursday 29th August 2019](https://film.one/media/person/11527/gallery-f29afa770040.jpg) Fleabag - Wyndham's Theatre - Thursday 29th August 2019 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/FleabagWyndham290819-2.jpg/1280px-FleabagWyndham290819-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Phoebe Waller-Bridge](https://film.one/media/person/11527/gallery-dcf8a8915a3a.jpg) Phoebe Waller-Bridge — Image via TMDB
- ![Phoebe Waller-Bridge](https://film.one/media/person/11527/gallery-99640afa75c0.jpg) Phoebe Waller-Bridge — Image via TMDB
- ![Phoebe Waller-Bridge](https://film.one/media/person/11527/gallery-d85b1a5fb701.jpg) Phoebe Waller-Bridge — Image via TMDB
- ![Fleabag - Wyndham's Theatre - Thursday 29th August 2019](https://film.one/media/person/11527/gallery-2145a0ec75bb.jpg) Fleabag - Wyndham's Theatre - Thursday 29th August 2019 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/FleabagWyndham290819-3.jpg/1280px-FleabagWyndham290819-3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Fleabag - Wyndham's Theatre - Thursday 29th August 2019](https://film.one/media/person/11527/gallery-8be6fcd8db30.jpg) Fleabag - Wyndham's Theatre - Thursday 29th August 2019 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/FleabagWyndham290819-3_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Phoebe Waller-Bridge](https://film.one/media/person/11527/gallery-c90ca2853dc4.jpg) Phoebe Waller-Bridge — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Golden Globes — 1 won

- 2019: Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy (won), for *Fleabag*

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 2 won

- 2019: Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (won), for *Fleabag*
- 2019: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (won), for *Fleabag*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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