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Lizzie Roper (born November 1967) is a British actress.

Career

Trained at the Guildford School of Acting after gaining a degree in drama from Aberystwyth University. Lizzie fell into Comedy whilst performing with Lenny Beige at The Regency Rooms as Sadie Beige -The Kosher chicken Giblet Queen of Whitechapel, Naomi Beige and Rita Poonarni-a brash Spanish singer with a penchant for Shirley Bassey numbers. In the late 1990s Roper also Performed stand Up and regularly hosted her own club, 'Loonatics at the Asylum' on Rathbone Place W1 as well as regular appearances on the Edinburgh Fringe. Her first major TV role was in The Worst Week of My Life playing Trish in 2004. In the same year, Roper appeared alongside Christian Slater in the West End production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. In 2005 Roper was performing at the Edinburgh Festival With Alan Davies and Bill Bailey in The Odd Couple. In 2006, Roper devised and appeared in her second solo show, Peccadillo Circus at the Edinburgh Festival. It garnered a nomination for The Stage's Best solo Performance and transferred to the West End at the Trafalgar Studios before going on a National Tour. For the role she researched and interviewed members of the public about their sex lives.

In 2011, Roper was in the West End musical comedy Betwixt!. taking over from Ellen Greene. From 2013 to 2014, Roper appeared as Sam Lomax in Hollyoaks. When she finally left she went straight back to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in another one woman show in which she played the journalist Julie Burchill in Julie Burchill: Absolute Cult, a play written by Tim Fountain and directed by Mike Bradwell. In 2015 and 2016, Roper appeared as Jackie in Boy Meets Girl, a romantic comedy in which the main character is a transgender woman. In 2020, she was a signatory alongside Alexander Armstrong, Simon Fanshawe and Frances Barber in the Sunday Times calling out hate speech,‘the appalling hashtag #RIPJKRowling is just the latest example of hate speech directed against her and other women. #IStandWithJKRowling' .

She has appeared as herself in Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, Celebrity Storage Hunters, The Wright Stuff, Jason Manford on Absolute Radio and Co-hosted on LBC regularly with Jenny Eclair.

Since 2009, Roper portrays Mabel in adverts for Aunt Bessie's.

From September 2022 until April 2023, Roper has been presenting the weekend mid-morning show on BBC radio across the Channel Islands, having previously presented BBC Radio Guernsey’s weekday mid-morning show from October 2021 to January 2022.

Selected filmography

References

1. Trevor Davies (7 August 2014). "Watch dead Hollyoaks star ride a wild boar in hilarious rehearsal for stunt". Mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
2. "Lizzie Roper: Christian Slater was one of the first to congratulate me on Hollyoaks role". Whatsontv.co.uk. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
3. Robin T. Barton (8 August 2006). "Lizzie Roper in Peccadillo Circus". Broadwaybaby.com. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
4. "Lizzie Roper Replaces Ellen Greene for Extension of Betwixt! in the West End". London.broadway.com. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
5. Anna Howell (23 October 2013). "Hollyoaks Spoilers: Lizzie Roper says Sam Lomax develops a soft-spot for Ste Hay!". Primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
6. "Hollyoaks' Lizzie Roper: I was devastated to be axed". Soapsquawk.co.uk. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
7. "The best of the Edinburgh Fringe". 16 August 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
8. Terri Paddock (4 August 2014). "Lizzie Roper: Why I wanted to play Queen of Spleen Julie Burchill". Festivalhighlights.com. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
9. "Boy Meets Girl review: Cramlington writer Elliott Kerrigan pens a piece of TV gold". Chroniclelive.co.uk. 3 September 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
10. "Signatories".
11. "Storage Hunters UK Celebrity Special | UKTV Play". uktvplay.uktv.co.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2016.

External links

• Lizzie Roper at IMDb

• British film actresses
• British stage actresses
• British television actresses
• British soap opera actresses
• Living people
• 1967 births
• English soap opera actresses
• 20th-century English actresses
• 21st-century English actresses
• Alumni of Aberystwyth University