Alison Ward

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Alison is an actor and comedian, originally from Middlesbrough, where she also filmed her role as Moira in the sitcom Smoggie Queens for BBC Three. Prior to this, she played the roles of Marigold and Cyril in Nikolai Gogol’s satirical play The Government Inspector at Marylebone Theatre, and has since filmed a role for an upcoming ITV drama series.

Alison trained at East 15 Acting School and in clown with Philippe Gaulier. She started performing comedy on the stand up circuit in 2009, including writing and performing in NewsRevue. As a comedy actor she has performed in Mandy (BBC2), The Emily Atack Show (ITV2) and as a series regular in surreal sketch show Big Field (BBC3). She has performed in numerous television commercials such as Specsavers, Vimto and McDonalds.

Alison is one half of The Secret Garden, a comedy collaboration with Jonny Roberts (co-creator of Big Field) where they have produced several online sketches including a re-imagining of Fanny Cradock’s cookery show.