Celeste Dring

Celeste Dring is an English comedy writer and actress, best known for her roles as Lauren Richards in the BBC TV series Wanderlust and as Princess Eugenie in Channel 4's The Windsors.

Celeste Dring
Celeste Dring as Princess Eugenie in 2017
Born	Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2015–present

Early life

Celeste Dring is from Wolverhampton, England. She studied English at the University of Cambridge and graduated in July 2010.^[1] Dring started her career as a dance director at the Central Youth Theatre, Wolverhampton.^[2]

Comedy career

Dring started working with Freya Parker and Ed Kiely in the fringe theatre trio Lebensmüde. The trio performed at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival.^[3] After Kiely left, Dring and Parker continued as a duo under the name Lazy Susan,^[4] earning a nomination for the comedy newcomer award at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.^[5] In 2016, Dring landed a main role as Princess Eugenie in Channel 4's The Windsors alongside actress Ellie White, who plays her royal sister Princess Beatrice.^[6] Dring has stated that she based her character on the stars of Made in Chelsea rather than the real-life Princess Eugenie.^[7]

Dring appeared as Kayleigh Hudson, a regular character in the BBC3 comedy series This Country in 2018.^[8] She also appeared as Laura in BBC's Wanderlust the same year.^[9]

As a voice actor Dring had a speaking role in BBC Radio 4's Sketchorama (2015)^[10] and Newsjack (2017).^[11]

In 2022 she appeared in a reboot of Lazy Susan on BBC Three with her long-term comedy partner Freya Parker for four 14-minute episodes.^[12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Smell Investigators	Pete Lazarus	short film
2021	Last Night in Soho	Shop Assistant
2022	Cyrano	Theatre lady	Uncredited

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Josh	Lily	1 episode
2015	SunTrap	Barmaid Zorro	1 episode
2016	Morgana Robinson's The Agency	Sauce Scientist	2 episodes
2016	Year Friends	Suzie the chef	1 episode
2018	Wanderlust	Laura Richards	5 episodes
2019	Down from London	Cam	1 episode
2019	Ladhood	Penelope	1 episode
2019	Lazy Susan	various characters	Pilot
2019	Absentia	Liza Tutee	1 episode
2017–2020	This Country	Kayleigh Hudson	4 episodes
2016–2020	The Windsors	Princess Eugenie	20 episodes
2021	The Green & Pleasant Guide	Presenter	4 episodes
2022	Lazy Susan	various characters	4 episodes[12]
2022	The Witchfinder	Goodwife Griffin	1 episode[13]

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Sketchorama[10]	Lazy Susan	BBC Radio 4
2017	Newsjack[11]	herself	BBC Radio 4

References

1. "After Hurtwood - Celeste Dring: writer, comic, actress, and all-round top human bean". musehurtwood.com. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
2. Andrews, Mark (8 June 2019). "Youth theatre must find new home or face closure". Express & Star. Wolverhampton. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
3. Wiegand, Chris (20 November 2018). "'I check her catsuit for wet patches!' The funny, freaky world of comedy duos". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
4. "Introducing two rising comedy stars of Lazy Susan". Made in Atlantis. 4 January 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
5. Peacock, Robert (28 July 2015). "Interview: Lazy Susan". The Wee Review. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
6. Broadbent, Steven (27 August 2017). "CELESTE DRING INTERVIEW". Telly Binge. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020.
7. "Onion Talking: Ellie White & Celeste Dring on The Windsors". The Velvet Onion. 10 July 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
8. Doran, Sarah (10 October 2018). "How are the cast of This Country related?". Radio Times. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
9. Franklin, Euan (2 October 2018). "Wanderlust writer Nick Payne: 'Lots of people are quite angry about the dialogue'". Culture Whisper. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
10. "Radio 4's Sketchorama returns with a new host". Chortle. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
11. "Newsjack Series 16 episode 2". BBC Radio 4 Extra. 5 February 2017.
12. Ryan, Anya (10 February 2022). "Lazy Susan: 'We'd love young women to like it and maybe be inspired'". BBC Three. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
13. "The Witchfinder series 1 episode 1". BBC iPlayer. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2022.

External links

• IMDb Celeste Dring
• Lazy Susan
• United Talent