Jo Enright
Jo Enright is an English stand-up comedian and actress who has appeared in a number of television and radio comedy programmes. She is best known for her roles in The Job Lot, Life's Too Short and Trollied.
Career
In 1995, Enright made her Edinburgh Festival debut as part of the three-hander The West Midland's Serious Comedy Squad. In 2002, she appeared alongside Steve Coogan in episode five, series two of the BBC comedy I'm Alan Partridge as a tax inspector investigating Alan. In 2005, she appeared in the BBC Radio 4 series The Ape that Got Lucky with Chris Addison. In 2006, she appeared in the comedy series Time Trumpet on BBC Two, playing herself as a commentator in the year 2031 looking back on the world nearly thirty years before. From July 2008, she appeared in the BBC comedy series Lab Rats as Cara McIlvenny.In 2008, Enright played wheelchair-user Jackie, a member of the fictional "2 Up, 2 Down", on Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice, a spoof on the talent show genre of programmes. In 2009 she began playing "Carol" in the fifth and sixth series of the BBC Three sitcom Ideal. In 2011, Enright appeared in Ricky Gervais's and Stephen Merchant's television comedy series Life's Too Short as Sue, Warwick Davis's estranged wife. In 2012, she appeared as baker Sharon in the Sky1 sitcom Trollied. From April 2013 until November 2015, Enright appeared as officious job centre worker Angela Bromford in the ITV2 comedy series The Job Lot. In 2022, Enright appeared in a guest role as Vera, the swinger, in series 3 of Ricky Gervais' After Life.
Awards
- 2002: Chortle Award winner for best female circuit comic
- 2001: Best Female on the Jongleurs Comedy Circuit, sponsored by Bodyform
- 1996: Named comedian of the year at the Leicester Comedy Festival
Filmography
- After Life as Vera; Series 3 episode 2; uncredited
- Porters as Janice Grimm
- Nurse as Bernie
- The Job Lot as Angela Bromford
- Trollied as Sharon the Baker
- Life's Too Short as Sue
- Ideal as Carol
- Lab Rats as Cara McIlvenny
- Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice as Jackie from contestants "2 Up 2 Down"
- Time Trumpet as herself
- Brain Candy - as herself
- Round as Ann
- I'm Alan Partridge - I Know What Alan Did Last Summer as Tax Inspector Catherine
- World of Pub - Ladies
- Phoenix Nights - Episode #1.4 as Beverly Hillscoptu
- That Peter Kay Thing - The Arena
- I Love a 1970's Christmas as herself
- Barking, Channel 4 sketch show, as writer and performer