Jessica Knappett

Jessica is an actress, writer and comedian born on the 28th of November 1984, in Bingley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. She attended Woodhouse Grove school in Apperley Bridge, Bradford, West Yorkshire, then read English and drama at the University of Manchester in Manchester, Greater Manchester. She then had several casual promotional jobs, dressing as mobile phones or giant fruit to hand out fliers, an experience that she would put into her sitcom [Drifters (2013)]. In 2005 Jessica co-formed Lady Garden, a female comedy group, who performed to some acclaim at the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. In 2011 she played the holiday romance of Neil in [The Inbetweeners (2011)], the big screen comedy about a bunch of sixth form misfits, as a result of which she was approached to pen her own comedy show, which became 'Drifters', first airing in 2013, and ending in 2016 after its fourth series.