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LOS ANGELES – OCT 25: Bea arrives for the 2019 British Academy Britannia Awards on October 25, 2019 in Beverly Hills, CA, DFree/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Aisling Clíodhnadh O’Sullivan
Place of Birth: Kildare, Ireland
Date of Birth: 16 March, 1984
Ethnicity: Irish
Aisling Bea is an Irish stand-up comedian, actress, and screenwriter. She created, starred in, and wrote for the series This Way Up , and appears on comedy panel shows QI and 8 Out of 10 Cats .
She is the daughter of Helen (Moloney), a school teacher, who had trained jockeys, and Brian O’Sullivan, a horse veterinarian. Her professional name is a tribute to her late father. Aisling worked as a tour guide at the Irish National Stud. Her great-aunt was playwright Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin. Aisling has a daughter with her partner Jack Freeman.
Aisling’s paternal great-grandfather, Padraig, was a member of the rebel Irish Volunteers.
Aisling’s maternal grandmother was named Rita Maloney. Rita led The Farmers’ March from the South of Ireland to Dublin, in 1966, protesting agricultural policy.
Aisling’s great-great-grandmother, Áine O’Donoghue, was the first teacher on the Blasket islands.
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