Kat Sadler
English comedian, writer and actress
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Kat Sadler is a British comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for writing and starring in the BBC Three comedy drama Such Brave Girls.
Kat Sadler | |
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| Born | 1994 (age 31–32) |
| Education | |
| Occupations | Actress, writer, comedian |
| Television | Such Brave Girls (2023) |
Early life and education
Sadler was born in 1994 and is from Sutton, London.[1] Her mother is a personal trainer.[2] Sadler has a younger sister, actress Lizzie Davidson, who also plays her sister in Such Brave Girls.[1][3][4][5] Sadler's family experienced financial struggles whilst she was growing up, and she describes the family environment as "tempestuous".[6]
Sadler studied film and literature at Warwick University. Whilst there, she would write sketches for the comedy society and perform stand-up comedy.[7][8]
Sadler is her stage name with Davidson being her family name.[1]
Career
In 2019, Sadler was awarded the BBC comedy writing bursary and became the in-house comedy writer for BBC Studios.[9]
Sadler was a writer on The Mash Report and won the BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary in 2019.[3] Her writing credits also include Joe Lycett's Got Your Back for Channel 4, The Jonathan Ross Show for ITV, Newsjack for BBC Radio 4 Extra and Frankie Boyle's New World Order for BBC Two, The Now Show and The News Quiz for BBC Radio 4, and Hypothetical and Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable for Dave.[10]
Such Brave Girls (2020, 2023)
At the start of 2020, Sadler had deteriorating mental health, experiences she drew from for the BBC Three and Hulu sitcom Such Brave Girls (2023) which she wrote and starred in alongside her real life sister Lizzie Davidson.[11][12][3][1]
Discussing the 2021 pilot episode, Sadler said that:
"everything we joke about in the show is from a place of lived experience. I wish I could say this is a heart-warming show about overcoming trauma, but that would be a lie. It’s about three toxic, damaged egomaniacs manipulating the world and each other for their own personal gain, vengeance and glory…just like in Little Women."[13]
Sadler said that she wanted to create a character like herself – "I'm sort of obsessed with my own trauma, and love telling people...and I wanted to do a more tongue-in-cheek version of that really"[2] She drew on the experience of living at home with her mum and sister when she had to move home during lockdown.
At the start of filming the series in 2023, Sadler described the show as “a family sitcom about trauma, but it’s more about us being narcissistic losers who are pathetically obsessed with what people think about us.”[14] The BBC described the show as "an unflinching, often absurd, and very funny look at a mother and her two grown up children try to cope with their own emotional and financial fragility, whilst they are living under the same roof; a series not for the faint-hearted, or the easily offended."[2]
Sadler has said she would love to do a third series.[2]
Awards
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Chortle Awards | Best TV Show | Such Brave Girls | Nominated | [15] |
| BAFTA Television Craft Awards | Emerging Talent: Fiction | Kat Sadler | Won | [16] | |
| Royal Television Society Programme Awards | Best Female Comedy Performance | Kat Sadler | Nominated | [17] | |
| Best Scripted Comedy | Such Brave Girls | Nominated | [18] | ||
| Broadcasting Press Guild Awards | Best Comedy | Such Brave Girls | Nominated | [19][20] | |
| Best Writer | Kat Sadler | Nominated | |||
| BPG Breakthrough Talent Award | Shortlist | ||||
| British Academy Television Awards | Best Scripted Comedy | Such Brave Girls | Won | [21][22] | |
| 2026 | Royal Television Society Programme Awards | Best Scripted Comedy | Such Brave Girls | Nominated | [23][24] |
| Writer - Comedy | Kat Sadler | Won | [24][25] | ||
| BAFTA | Best Comedy Writer | Kat Sadler | Nominated | [26][27] |
Sadler has twice been nominated for the BBC New Comedian of the Year award.[9]
Personal life
Sadler is queer.[3]
Sadler has experience of mental health issues.[28] The idea for Such Brave Girls came out of her experience of calling her sister from hospital and told her she'd been sectioned after twice trying to take her own life, and her sister responded by revealing she was £20,000 in debt, then they both laughed.[6] When the first series came out, Sadler lost her best friend to suicide, which "gave me real fire to talk about it [the mental health system]"[6]
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Channel | Role | Other Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-2019 | The Mash Report | BBC Two | Writer | Series 1, Episode 8;
Series 2, Episode 6; Series 3, Episodes 3, 5. |
[29] | |
| 2019-2020 | Frankie Boyle's New World Order | Writer | Series 3, Episode 1, Special;
Series 4, Episode 1, Special. | |||
| 2020-2021 | Hypothetical | U&Dave | Writer (additional material) | Series 2, Episodes 3, 4;
Series 3, Episode 2 | ||
| 2020-2021 | The Jonathan Ross Show | ITV1 | Writer | Series 16, Episode 7;
Series 17, Episodes 2, 3, 4, 8 | ||
| 2021 | Attack Of The Hollywood Clichés! | Netflix | Writer | |||
| Joe Lycett's Got Your Back | Channel 4 | Writer (additional material) | Series 3, Episodes 7, 8 | |||
| 2022 | Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable | U&Dave | Writer (additional material) | Series 2, Episodes 1–8 | ||
| Tell Me Everything | ITV2 | Co-Writer | Series 1, Episode 5 | [9] | ||
| 2023 | Such Brave Girls | BBC Three | Josie | Creator, Writer, Executive Producer |
Radio
| Year | Title | Station | Role | Other | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | BBC New Comedy Award | BBC Radio 4 | Herself | Episode 2: "Heat 2 - London" | [29] | |
| 2018-2019 | The News Quiz | Writer (additional material) | Series 98, Episodes 2, 3, 5, 7;
Series 99, Episodes 1–8; Series 100, Episodes 1, 5, 7; |
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| Writer | Series 101, Episodes 6, 7 | |||||
| 2019-2021 | Newsjack | BBC Radio 4 Extra | Writer | Series 20, Episodes 2, 3, 4, 6
Series 21, Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 Series 22, Episodes 1, 5; Series 23, Episode 2; Series 24, Episode 4 |
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| Script Editor | Series 22, Episode 6;
Series 23, Episodes 3, 4; Series 24, Episode 3 |
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| 2019 | Newsjack Unplugged | Writer | Series 3, Episodes 1–8;
Series 4, Episodes 2–8 |
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| The Now Show | BBC Radio 4 | Writer (additional material) | Series 54, Episodes 1, 5, 6, 7;
Series 55, Episodes 4, 5. |
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| V.I.P R.I.P | Writer | Episodes 1, 2 | ||||
| 2020 | Alex Edelman's Peer Group | Writer (additional material) | Series 3, Episodes 1–4 | |||
| 2020 | Obsessions | Writer (additional material) | Series 2, Episodes 1–4 | |||
| 2020 | Nature Table | Writer | Series 1, Episodes 1–6; Christmas Special;
Series 2, Episodes 1–6; Series 3, Episodes 2, 3, 4, 6 |
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| 2022, 2025 | Kat Sadler's Screen Time | Kat | Writer | Series 1 and 2 | [30] | |
| 2024 | Obsessions | Guest | Series 3, Episode |
Online
| Year | Title | Channel | Role | Other role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Shower Business | YouTube | Business Woman | Writer | [29] | |
| Sad Face | Kat | Writer | ||||
| 2018 | 10 easy steps to write the perfect tweet | Kat | Writer | |||
| From Russia With Lou & Annie | Kat | Writer | Episode 16: "Matchday 16" | |||
| Viraltown | Ensemble actor | Episodes 1, 3, 6, 8 | ||||
| Rob & Beth | Laura | |||||
| 2019 | That friend who's stopped drinking | Vimeo | Alex | |||
| 2021 | Taking Stock | YouTube | Lorraine (Voice) | Episode 9: "Productivity" | ||
| Michaela (Voice) | Episodes 2, 5, 8 |
Live performance
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Succubus Fringe Edition | Host/Presenter | Edinburgh Fringe Festival | [29] | |
| Tracy's Leaving Party: Hot Young Things | Self | Work in progress show with Christy Coysh |
Media appearances
Radio:
- 9 July 2025 – Front Row, BBC Radio 4 – discussing Such Brave Girls.[2]