Biography
Sally Phillips is a British film and television actress, best known for her parts in the television series Smack the Pony, as well as the Bridget Jones feature films.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025
as Shazzer
Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, s...

Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness
2024
as General's Wife
A 72-hour whirlwind in the life of bohemian artist Amedeo Modigliani, known as Modi to his friends, follows a chaotic series of events through the str...

Love at First Sight
2023
as Tess Jones
Hadley and Oliver begin falling in love on a flight from New York to London, but when they lose each other at customs, can they defy all odds to reuni...

Coffee Wars
2023
as Lisa
Coffee aficionado Jo is doing her best to keep her plant-based, independent coffee shop afloat alongside her band of misfit employees. In a last-ditch...

My Happy Ending
2023
as Mikey
A famous actress goes incognito to seek treatment for a medical issue, and in a hospital waiting room she meets three remarkable women who help her fa...

Comedy Classics: The Vicar of Dibley
2022
as Narrator
Celebrating the legendary comedy with clips and insights from the cast and celebrity fans.

The Fence
2022
as Sharon Knight
The story kicks off on Hartcliffe council estate in Bristol during the early 1980s. It follows Steven Knight, a working-class boy who has his motorbik...

How to Please a Woman
2022
as Gina
When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself...

Off the Rails
2021
as Liz
Now in their 50’s, three friends recreate an inter-rail journey across Europe, but this time 18-year-old Maddie is taking her mother’s place, fulfilli...

Happy Birthday Mr Bean
2021
as Herself
A celebratory documentary looking back at the 30 years since comedy legend Mr Bean landed on our screens. This documentary explores the magic behind t...

Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
2020
as Self
Miranda Hart and the cast of her sitcom come together to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary with a music-filled, star-studded spectacular from the...

The Survivors Will Envy The Dead
2019
The ever-magnificent Sally Phillips stars as Julia, a woman dealing with the stresses of the modern world and paranoia in the face of an unknown techn...

Blinded by the Light
2019
as Mrs. Anderson
In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the musi...

The Rizen: Possession
2019
as The Suited Woman
A group of young urban explorers and a private military unit could become the final pieces in a 60-year plan to reopen a door that should have stayed ...

The Fight
2019
as Beth Hunter
Tina lives in a quiet seaside town but her life is anything but quiet - her mother is threatening to leave her father, her daughter is being bullied a...

Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
2018
as Miriam
Two sisters come together to spend Christmas with their families in their recently deceased parents’ falling down country house, with hilariously chao...

Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women
2018
as Narrator (voice)
A dark and delicious foray into Angela Carter's extraordinary life with animation by Peepshow Collective, rare archive and family photos, and contribu...

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018
as Narrator (Voice)
This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show...

The More You Ignore Me
2018
as Dr Marie Henty
Based on Jo Brand's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, The More You Ignore Me is a warm, comedy drama focusing on the life of an unconventio...

You, Me and Him
2018
as Amy
Despite their age difference, Lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbou...

Tim Vine Travels Through Time Christmas Special
2017
as Catherine of Aragon
To recover a silver lion ornament for singer Emma Bunton Tim travels back to the court of Henry Vlll where Anne Boleyn (Emma again) asks jester Tim to...

Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?
2017
as Herself
Documentary looking back at Alan Partridge's journey from broadcaster caricature to the award-winning study of complexity and pathos that he has becom...

Ferdinand
2017
as Greta (voice)
Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with ...

Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
2017
Only shown at live events, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes is made from unseen sketches and outtakes from seminal British TV series Brass Eye.

Blood Shed
2017
as Helen
Jack loves a bargain. And he loves sheds. When he buys suspiciously cheap second-hand parts to build his very own dream shed, he and long-suffering wi...

The Rizen
2017
as The Suited Woman
The year is 1955. NATO and the Allied Forces have been conducting secret, occult experiments in a bid to win the Arms Race. Now, they have finally suc...

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2017
as Self - Presenter
A fund-raising event organised by Comic Relief.

Burn Burn Burn
2016
as Ingrid
Following the death of their friend, two girls in their late twenties embark on a road trip to spread his ashes. Seph and Alex take turns driving. Dan...

Pregnant Pause
2016
as Nurse
Steph is in a happy, long-term relationship, but now she might be pregnant she has no idea what she wants.

A World Without Down's Syndrome?
2016
as Herself - Presenter
Documentary about Down's syndrome and the ethics of pregnancy screening, fronted by Sally Phillips. This film explores the science and thinking around...

Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
as Shazzer
After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single...
Egg
2016
as Ivy
‘Egg’ is an absurd comedy about friendship and expecting the unexpected. Ivy and Margaret meet for tea, same time, same place, everyday. But today I...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016
as Mrs. Bennet
A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from differen...

Seahorse
2015
as Martha
The story of a first love, an unrequited love and a pregnant boy.

We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
2015
as Ann Croft
Comedy drama about the beginnings of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's writing partnership and their struggles to get Dad's Army on the screen in 1968.

Set the Thames on Fire
2015
Two young men plot to escape a dystopian future London ruled by corporate tyrant The Impresario

20 Moments That Rocked Talent Shows
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The film features clips looking at the successes, upsets and moments that caused drama in different talent shows.

Nina Conti: Clowning Around
2015
as Self
This film follows Nina as she trains as a giggle doctor with Theodora Children's Charity, beginning with her trying to find her clown persona, who mig...
The Case of the High Foot
2014
as Hilda Stolf
Comedy short set in the 1930s in which Hilda Stolf (Sally Phillips) visits her doctor (Reece Shearsmith) complaining of a rare case of 'high foot'. Bu...

Rain
2014
as Kvinnan
A woman wakes up from rain on her pillow. When she gets out of bed the rain follows her. She carries the rain with her through the day.

The Many Faces of Ronnie Barker
2012
as Narrator
Programme telling the story of Ronnie Barker, a quiet dedicated actor who might have been a bank manager but went on to become one of the country's fa...
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
2011
as Narrator
This retrospective follows Sir Michael Caine's impressive career, featuring archive clips woven together with interviews from colleagues and critics. ...

The Decoy Bride
2011
as Emma
A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.

The Decoy Bride
2011
Writer, Story
A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.

Huge
2010
as Herself
A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.

Abroad
2010
as Jemima Green
A young Canadian girl struggles to decipher the ways of the English especially the men when she comes to London to take up a junior position at the ...

Svengali
2009
as Michelle
Satirical sitcom on the music industry.

The Best Of Smack The Pony
2007
Comediennes Sally Phillips, Doon MacKichan and Fiona Allen star in this compilation of the best moments from the first two series of their hit comedy ...

BoyTown
2006
as Holly
They were the hottest thing in the eighties, the pin-up boys on every teenage girl’s wall. And with hits like “Tough Titties” and “BoyTown”, they ceme...
Out at Work
2006
This film tells the stories of six workers in a variety of jobs. They come from very different backgrounds, and each has their own way of dealing with...

Churchill: The Hollywood Years
2004
as Waitress
A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I...

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
as Shazzer
Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time...

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
2004
as Kelly
Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos

Gladiatress
2004
as Worthaboutapig
Three unlikely heroines set out to thwart a Roman invasion and save Celtic Britain in their own unique and outrageous style.

Tooth
2004
as Mom
Tooth is a young, feisty Tooth Fairy, who lives in a world called Fairytopia that has lost its ability to use magic. Fed up with the way most fairies ...
Show Ponies
2004
Tomboy Heidi and her beloved, grumpy, old pony Gripper take on a snooty little madam and her haughty thoroughbreds.

Mean Machine
2001
as Tracey
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and h...

Birthday Girl
2001
as Karen
John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russia...

The Junkies
2001
as Sal
Sal, Big Al and Jackie all deal with heroin use in a fun-filled romp.

Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
as Shazza
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's r...

Born Romantic
2000
as Suzy
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCorm...

You Are Here
1998
as Laura
One-off late '90s comedy special from a cast full of up and coming comic actors and comedians.

You Are Here
1998
Writer
One-off late '90s comedy special from a cast full of up and coming comic actors and comedians.

Rock Wives
1996
About the wives, fans, escorts, groupies and other females that surround the male rock stars.
Cluub Zarathustra
1996
as Various
'Using the stinking carcass of so-called comedy as a lens, we shall focus harsh philosophee, religion, poetrie and base animal passion onto your ear, ...
Cluub Zarathustra
1996
Writer
'Using the stinking carcass of so-called comedy as a lens, we shall focus harsh philosophee, religion, poetrie and base animal passion onto your ear, ...

The Monk, the Mermaid & Molise
N/A
The film follows Guy, down on his luck, as he accepts an invitation to spend five days playing a series of bass clinics in a remote Italian region, Mo...

The Liar
N/A
as Beryl
Adrian Healey is clever, charming and witty, but above all he is an expert liar. His unparalleled ability to consummately cheat and deceive is a skill...
Night and Day
N/A
as Cousin Joan
Based on Virginia Woolf’s novel, an unromantic comedy about a passionate astronomer who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. T...

The Monk, the Mermaid & Molise
N/A
Producer
The film follows Guy, down on his luck, as he accepts an invitation to spend five days playing a series of bass clinics in a remote Italian region, Mo...