Sarah Solemani

Sarah Solemani is an award winning English Actress Writer and Activist best known for starring in the BAFTA winning sitcom Him & Her and playing Renee Zellwegers best friend 'Miranda' in Working Title's Bridget Jones' Baby for which she was nominated for an Evening Standard Best Actress Award. Born in the London Borough of Camden and grew up in Crouch End. Her father is a Persian Jewish mathematics lecturer (now retired). Her mother a sociology teacher of Irish descent died of cancer when she was 16. After passing her A levels at the Henrietta Barnett School she took a gap year before reading Social and Political Sciences at New Hall Cambridge and graduated with an MA. At Cambridge she joined the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and became social secretary during her first year replacing Dan Stevens and eventually became vice president. She went down in Footlights history for writing the biggest all-female comedy sketch ever performed on a Footlights stage writing twenty five female students into her sketch 'Brawl'.Solemani was awarded third place in the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust/New Statesman Prize for New Political Writing on the subject: "Do women's rights remain the privilege of the developed world?" in 2005. In 2011 she won the Royal Television Society award for best Comedy Performance for her role in Him & Her along with her co-star Russell Tovey.In 2012,she was named one of the year's Broadcast Hot Shots.Sarah is against the criminalisation of sex workers and has been a champion for sex worker rights since 2002. She was nominated by the English Collective of Prostitutes to represent them in Parliament in order to halt further efforts to criminalise clients. She was a vocal supporter of former shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in the 2015 Labour Leadership race. She has introduced Cooper at various Labour Party events and has contributed to her speeches.She married Daniel Ingram, a sustainable investment expert specialising in climate change in Petah Tikva, Israel on 3 June 2012. Their daughter was born in December 2013.The couple revealed their daughter's Godparents at a ceremony in the New London Synagogue. Their child's Godfather is comedian Simon Amstell and Godmother is Dr Orlanda Ward, a gender and politics expert and teaching fellow at University College London.Here are some of her credits

2003	Red Cap	Gillian Jennings	TV series

2005	Mrs Henderson Presents	Vera	Film

2006	Undone	Edna	Radio series

2006	Hyperdrive	Alie	TV series

2007	Living with Two People You Like Individually... But Not as a Couple	Antonia	TV series – Pilot

2007	Roman's Empire	Jenny	TV series

2007	Suburban Shootout	Donna	TV series

2010–2013	Him & Her	Becky	TV series

2011	Silent Witness	Mary Olivant	TV series – episode 109 ("The Prodigal")

2011	Psychoville	Emily	TV series

2011	Coma Girl	Siobhan	TV series – Pilot

2011	Uptown Downstairs Abbey	Lady Mary	TV series – special for Comic Relief

2012	The Borgias	Magdelena	TV series

2012	Skins	Celia Champion	TV Series

2012–2014	Bad Education	Miss Gulliver[10]	TV series

2013	Love Matters	Aphrodite Fry[20]	TV series – episode 109 ("Aphrodite Fry")

2013–14	The Wrong Mans	Lizzie Green	TV series

2013	Crackanory	Narrator	TV series

2014	The Secrets	Charlotte	TV series

2015	The Bad Education Movie	Miss Gulliver[10]	Film

2015	Hector	Sara	Film

2016	The Five	Pru Carew	TV series

2016	Bridget Jones's Baby	Miranda	Film

2017	No Offence	DCI Christine Lickberg	TV series

Stage

2000	The Graduate	Elaine	Gielgud Theatre[21]

2007	Burning Cars		Hampstead Theatre[22]

2009	Pornography		Tricycle Theatre[23]

2012	The House of Bernarda Alba	Maryam	Almeida Theatre[24]