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Edinburgh TV Festival 2023
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Lolly Adefope

Character Comedian and Actor

Professional Bio

Lolly Adefope is an award-winning character comedian and one of the most exciting comedy actors to emerge from the UK in recent years. Lolly’s extensive broadcast credits include Shrill, Miracle Workers, Ghosts, This Time With Alan Partridge, Loaded, Damned and Taskmaster. Lolly starred in her own self written short, Sorry, and wrote and starred in Lolly Adefope’s Christmas - which was nominated for a Broadcast Digital Award. Lolly co-stars in the feature films: The Spy Who Dumped Me and Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Lolly's has written for The Guardian, WePresent and Feminists Don't Wear Pink. She was included in The ELLE List’s 2019 50 Game-Changers of Now; and The Evening Standard’s 2019 and 2018 Progress 1000.