Aisling Bea

Aisling Bea is one of the most renowned and rich Comedian she was born on March 16 1984, in Kildare Ireland. She appeared on QI alongside Stephen Fry. Aisling Cliodhnadh (born 16 March, 1984) is a comedian and actress from Ireland. Bea's professional career started in 2011, as a stand-up comedian, after appearing in small parts on Irish and British TV shows that began in 2009. She was already regularly performing on sketch comedy shows and sitcoms. In 2012, after she won an award at Edinburgh Comedy Awards (ECA), she started to appear often in various panel programs. From 2016 to 2017 she served as the team captain for 8 Out of 10 Cats and a regular contestant in the show's spinoff 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Born to Brian O'Sullivan, she has one sister called Sinead. In 2012 she was the only woman to win the So You Think You Are Funny Award. Bea was given to her to honor her father. Aisling Cliodhnadh O'Sullivan, born Kildare town County Kildare on 16 March 1984. Bea's father Brian passed away at the age of three. He was a horse veterinary. Bea wasn't told the details of how he passed to death until she was 13 years old. In honor of her father, she took the stage name Bea and in 2017 wrote an article about suicides in the family she was raised by for The Guardian. Bea's mother Helen, who is also a trainer for jockeys as well as a former professional jockey, was the one responsible for taking care of her as well as Sinead. Their parents were both obsessed with racing and horses. Bea had a job as a tour guide at the Irish National Stud. From an early age, Bea knew that she did not want to pursue racing as a career. Instead she loved the performing arts.