Alice Lowe

An English actress and writer mainly in comedy She is known for her roles in the Garth Marenghi series and as the lead and cowriter of the 2012 film Sightseers She wrote directed and starred in the 2016 black comedy Prevenge whilst pregnant herself Lowe was born in Coventry West Midlands England She attended Kenilworth School and graduated from Kings College Cambridge where she studied classics At university she became involved in theatre and comedy Lowe began her career in surreal experimental theatre shows including City Haunts Snowbound and Progress in Flying Machine codevising and performed along with colleagues such as Robert Webb and David Mitchell Lowe worked under the directorship of Paul King who has since directed her in The Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghis Darkplace She was cast in Garth Marenghis Fright Knight alongside fellow Cambridge graduates Richard Ayoade and Matt Holness and they were nominated for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000 In 2001 she won an award for performing in the sequel to Fright Knight Garth Marenghis Netherhead at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Her television credits include Channel 4s spoof horror comedy Garth Marenghis Darkplace Beth in the BBC comedy series My Life in Film David Bowie in the BBC series Snuff Box and a recurring role in Rob Brydons Annually Retentive She was part of the allfemale comedy show Beehive along with Sarah Kendall Barunka OShaughnessy and Clare Thomson which was aired on E4 and was a regular cast member of the CBBC show Horrible Histories during the second third and fifth seasons Her BBC Three pilot LifeSpam My Child Is French was broadcast in 2009 and she cowrote and starred in Channel 4s Orcadia In February 2010 she appeared in and scriptedited the pilot for a sortofsketchshow called Missing Scene She has also guest starred as Monkey in The Priest and the Beast episode of The Mighty Boosh as Patricia in the FiftyFifty episode of The IT Crowd a solicitor in the Travel Writer episode of Black Books Madonna in an episode of Channel 4s Star Stories and episodes of Little Britain Come Fly with Me Ruddy Hell Its Harry and Paul Beautiful People and This is Jinsy She appeared in the music video for Bastardo by Charlotte Hatherley directed by Edgar Wright