Acting
Dec 31, 1980
Olivia Lee
Acting
Biography
Olivia Lee is an award-winning performer and writer with an extensive track record of creating and writing her own television shows. She currently has multiple scripted projects in development with production companies and broadcasters in both the UK and the US. Her feature screenplay Pardon The Interruption recently won Best Comedy Screenplay at the prestigious Prague Screenplay Awards 2024. The script has also received official selections from the New York Script Awards, International World Film Awards, and Budapest Movie Awards, and earned an Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Film and Script Awards. In addition, it was a finalist for both the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards and the WeScreenplay Awards. Her half-hour comedy pilot Scapegoat is currently a finalist for the Outstanding Screenplay TV Pilot Awards. Olivia began her career as a comedy performer and rose to prominence on Channel 4s hit series Balls of Steel, where she starred in her own segment, Prank TV with Miss Lee. Following its success, she created her own comedy show for Channel 4, Olivia Lees Naughty Bits. This led to the creation of her Comedy Central series Olivia Lee: Dirty, Sexy, Funny, which ran for two successful seasons. Her work gained attention in the US, leading to regular appearances on NBCs The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, where she both wrote and starred in her own recurring comedy segment. This exposure resulted in truTV commissioning her comedy pilot The Olivia Lee Show, produced by Ben Stiller through his company Red Hour. More recently, she created and starred in the Channel 4 pilot Make Me A Misogynist, in which she played a male character. As an actress, she has appeared in numerous well-known television sitcoms. Olivia also released her debut album with Universal Records, Mindful Mum: How Not To Lose Your Total Fucing Sht, offering a unique and irreverent take on mindfulness. The album was a hit and has since been adapted into a live show titled Olivia Lee: Losing Her Total Fucing Sht, which celebrates female anger and explores toxic femininity. A tour of the show is currently in development.
Feature Films (5)
A Russian ex-hit man is called back to Russia for one last job. This time against his former employees, the Russian mob.
The Russian Specialist
The main narrative follows youngsters Al and Olive and their respective journeys towards saying those three words for the first time. However, the story is interspersed with inputs from different couples in evidently very different relationships.
96 Ways to Say I Love You
Upon learning the end of the world may be taking place, a lonely man locks himself in a motel room when a female escort arrives at his door…
Red Velvet
Once inseparable and totally in love, Lola and Freddie are now in their 40s and, having grown in different directions, are getting a divorce. Lola is thriving in her career while Freddie continues to chase his dream of becoming a screenwriter. When Freddie is hired by a big studio and rekindles a relationship with an old flame, he matures and aligns more with what Lola desired in their marriage.
Lola and Freddie
Television & Series (7)
A team of judges combs the Internet in search of talented amateurs capable of opening for acts: Lady Gaga, Gym Class Heroes, Rod Stewart, Nicki Minaj, LMFAO, Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean & Jason Mraz.
Opening Act
What happens when the biggest stars in the world get too high on the Hollywood hog? When their bank accounts start swelling bigger than their heads? Master prankster Ashton Kutcher is there to punk 'em down to earth.
Punk'd
One of Britain’s favourite comedians doing what he does best – being funny. But Alan Davies isn’t on a stage, or behind his QI desk sparring with Stephen Fry, or even wearing his Jonathan Creek duffle coat… instead, Alan is at his most relaxed and most natural – sitting around chatting with some of his best comedian friends.
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
A weekly, topical panel show based around a huge series of opinion poll surveys carried out around Britain.
8 Out of 10 Cats
Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.
