James Acaster
Acaster has also been nominated a record four times for the Edinburgh Comedy Award from 2012 to 2015, but never won. He did scoop the breakthrough award and the best show award at the Chortle Awards 2015 for Recognise.
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James Acaster joins the Bad Fairies
Animated film penned by Deborah Frances-White.
James Acaster has joined the cast of an animated musical movie created by the Guilty Feminist’s Deborah Frances-White.
Bad Fairies revolves around a subversive gang of fairies in contemporary London as they shake up their magical world.
Acaster joins the previously announced leads, Cynthia Erivo and Ncuti Gatwa, and plays a character called Stickers.
Director Megan Nicole Dong and co-director Olivier Staphylas announced Acaster's involvement at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France today.
Also joining the cast are Serrana Su-Ling Bliss, whose credits include Enola Holmes 2 and Belfast as well as West End roles, and Dee Bradley Baker, an established voice actor whose credits include playing Klaus the fish on American Dad!
Frances-White, above, is writing the script with Zoe Tomalin, a regular in the writers’ room of shows such as Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The News Quiz. She is also a former recipient of the prestigious David Nobbs Memorial Comedy Writing Award.
It was previously announced that Six: The Musical creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss are writing the original songs, with Isabella Summers – the ‘Machine’ in Florence + The Machine – writing the music.
Animated by London-based Locksmith Animation, Bad Fairies is due for release by Warner Bros on May 21, 2027.
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Published: 22 Jun 2026
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