Wendy Wason

Wendy's first job at The Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh was her introduction to stand-up comedy. She found it both thrilling and terrifying. And so began her path to stand-up.

Her first acting job was in Taggart and she quickly racked up appearances in short films, High Road, crap adverts and Taggart again.
She did more and more comedy and had parts in Fun at the Funeral Parlour, Coupling and was again steered towards stand-up playing the part of an obsessive Bill Hicks fan who becomes a stand-up in the film, Resurrecting Bill.

Wendy debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in 2001 in Trevor Lock's play - What You Really Want. She appeared alongside Phil Nichol, Sarah Kendall and had to strip off while four months pregnant. By the time she was pregnant with her second child she was filming The Libertine with the Johnnys - Depp, Malkovich and Vegas. Most of the time on set was spent with them feeling the baby kick. It wasn't kicking, she was just getting cheap thrills.

When her son was 8 weeks old, she started stand-up. With her experience, stage confidence and easy manner, she's a natural stand-up.

Gigs: The Laughing Horse, Pear-shaped, The Amused Moose, Blackfriars, The Bedford, Comedy Café, The Stand, The Kings Head, Mirth Control, The Komedia.

Film credits include:
The Libertine Mr Mud Productions Laurence Dunmore
Club Le Monde Outlaw Films Simon Rumley
Magic Moments Ideal World Saul Metzstein
Resurrecting Bill St Moritz Productions Faye Jackson

Television credits include:
Coupling Hartswood Films Sue Virtue
Under Surveillance BBC One Guy Freeman
Fun at the Funeral Parlour BBC Choice Simon Lupton
No Cooking ,No Vets, No DIY Pearson Television Tristram Shapeero
Velvet Soup BBC Two Gary Chippington
Taggart Scottish Television Michael Brayshaw
Life According to Fred BBC Scotland Tom Poole/ Ian Burgoyne

Theatre credits include:
Soho Theatre Probe Steve Furst/ Mike Leigh
Cottesloe, Royal National Theatre Men Should Weep Jeremy Herrin
The Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival What You Really Want Sem Debillart

Radio
Art Class BBC Radio 4 Alex Walsh-Taylor
Poetry Please BBC Radio 4 John Tuckey

Voiceovers for;
Ebay, Sainsburys, Threshers, News of the World, The Sun, Irn-Bru, Easy-jet, Acuvue, Magnet, Matalan and others.