Age: 40
female
Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born 14 July 1985) is an English actress, screenwriter and producer. As the creator, head writer, and lead star of the comedy series Fleabag (2016–2019), she won various accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes and a British Academy Television Award. She received further Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for writing and producing the spy thriller series Killing Eve (2018–2022). Waller-Bridge has also created, written, and starred in the comedy series Crashing (2016). She has also acted in the comedy series The Café (2011–2013), in the second season of Broadchurch (2015), and in the films Albert Nobbs (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). She contributed to the screenplay of the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021). She starred in the adventure film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Phoebe Waller-Bridge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Writer
for Writer in The Wasp: The Rise and Fall of Susan Cabot
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Susan Cabot’s life was a cocktail of glamour, pain, and untold secrets. Known for her B-movie roles in Roger Corman’s films, Cabot earned cult status as the title character in The Wasp Woman—a reflection of her desperate search for beauty, success, and validation in a town notorious for its dark allure. But behind the starlet’s captivating smile lay a tumultuous past shaped by her Jewish heritage, abandonment, and a diagnosis of psychotic paranoia that haunted her personal life. Through a beautifully dark and meticulously researched narrative, The Wasp unravels Susan’s complex relationships—her ill-fated romance with King Hussein of Jordan, her struggles with mental illness, and her unconventional life as a single mother raising a son with dwarfism. The series builds tension as it explores her descent into paranoia, fueled by mysterious treatments with an unregulated hormone that may have heightened her psychological fragility. It leads viewers into the tragic night when her son Timothy, the person she loved most, took her life in what he claimed was an act of self-defense against a mother he no longer recognized.
