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Aisling Bea

Aisling Bea

Date of birth: 16-03-1984
Kildare-born Aisling Bea began her career in acting but found her true calling in comedy, winning the So You Think You're Funny? award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012, and being nominated for best newcomer in the following year's festival. Bea is best known for creating, writing, and starring in the his Way Up on Channel 4. She has also appeared on QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats - where she was the first female team captain - and Taskmaster, as well as many other panel shows.
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Aisling Bea joins Starman film

Starring opposite Brendan Fraser

Aisling Bea is to appear opposite Brendan Fraser and Jeff Daniels in the new sci-fi thriller movie Starman.

In it, The Whale star Fraser plays Tom Adams, who launches a historic expedition to Mars that goes wrong, stranding  him millions of miles from Earth.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the news, Bea will play Julia Hanley, ‘a defiant and magnetic Irish photographer who sees past Tom’s world-changing ambition to the man beneath it, ultimately redefining his life through love’.

Starman is currently being filmed in Australia, directed by Josh Wakely from his own original screenplay.  He previously created the Netflix animated series Beat Bugs, based on the songs of the Beatles, and its follow-up Motown Magic.

As well as creating her own TV comedy, This Way Up, Bea has starred alongside Nick Frost in the horror comedy Get Away and appeared in movies including Greatest Days, Love Wedding Repeat and Home Sweet Home Alone.

She will next be seen in Netflix’s adaptation of Marian Keyes’s Grown Ups.

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Published: 6 Aug 2026

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Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2013

Aisling Bea: C’est La Bea


Edinburgh Fringe 2015

Aisling Bea: Plan Bea

Aisling Bea: Plan Bea


Tour

2026 - Aisling Bea: Older Than Jesus


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