{{short description|British stand-up comedian and actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = Tiff Stevenson 2015.jpg | name = Tiff Stevenson | birth_name = Tiffany Stevenson | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1978|09|29}} | caption = Stevenson at the Glastonbury Festival 2015 | birth_place = | occupation = Comedian, actor | spouse = | other_names = Tiffany Stevenson-Oake | years_active = 2000–present | website = {{Official URL}} }}
'''Tiffany Stevenson''' (born 29 September 1978)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/tiffany.stevensoncomic/info/?tab=page_info|title=Tiffany Stevenson|website=Facebook}}</ref> is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actress.
==Career== Stevenson started her career as an actress. Her credits include ''The Office'', ''Days That Shook the World'', ''People Just Do Nothing'', Roisin Conaty's ''GameFace'' and ''Slotherhouse''.<ref name="about">{{cite web |title=Tiff Stevenson |url=https://tiffstevenson.co.uk |access-date=17 October 2023}}</ref>
Stevenson has been doing stand-up comedy since 2006, which was also the year she first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/fringe/2016/features/q_and_a/tiff_stevenson_10_questions/|title=Tiffany Stevenson: 10 Edinburgh Fringe questions|work=comedy.co.uk|date=23 August 2016 }}</ref> Her solo debut was in ''Along Came A Spider'' (2009). Her subsequent Edinburgh shows were ''Dictators'' (2010), ''Cavewoman'' (2011), ''Uncomfortably Numb'' (2012), ''Optimist'' (2014), ''Mad Man'' (2015), ''Seven'' (2016), and ''Bombshell'' (2017).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/t/2942/tiff_stevenson/review/|title=Tiff Stevenson|website=chortle.co.uk |accessdate=3 July 2019 }}</ref> ''Bombshell'' was listed among the "Best-Reviewed Edinburgh Shows 2017".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/fringe/2017/features/best_reviewed_edinburgh_fringe_shows_2017/|title=Best-Reviewed Edinburgh Shows 2017|website=comedy.co.uk|date=4 September 2017 |accessdate=3 July 2019}}</ref> Her 2019 Edinburgh show was titled ''Mother, ''Stevenson planned to take it on tour in the UK and in the US after that year's festival.<ref name="RHLSTP">{{cite web|url=https://player.fm/series/richard-herrings-leicester-square-theatre-podcast/rhlstp-216-tiff-stevenson|title=RHLSTP 216 – Tiff Stevenson|website=player.fm|accessdate=3 July 2019}}</ref>
She has been hosting the monthly comedy live show ''Old Rope'' in London where comedians showcase new material since 2009.<ref name="about"/>
In 2011, Stevenson finished third on the ITV reality show ''Show Me the Funny''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.list.co.uk/article/40223-5-things-you-might-not-know-about-tiffany-stevenson/|title=5 things you might not know about Tiffany Stevenson|work=The List|date=2 February 2012 }}</ref><ref name="Glasgow">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity-interviews/tiffany-stevenson-cant-wait-come-1750674|title=Tiffany Stevenson can't wait to come to Glasgow ahead of International Comedy Festival|date=8 March 2013|accessdate=3 July 2019|work=Daily Record }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/mar/05/germaine-greer-female-standups-joke|title=Tiffany Stevenson-Oake: Germaine Greer's verdict on female standups is no joke|work=The Guardian |date=5 March 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Heritage |first=Stuart |date=2023-08-30 |title=''Slotherhouse'': is a horror film about a killer sloth secretly a masterpiece? |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/30/slotherhouse-movie-review-killer-sloth |access-date=2023-09-20 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
Stevenson sings and plays the guitar. She sang with Craig Robinson at The Improv in Los Angeles in 2019 when he spontaneously asked her to join him on stage to do her ''"Stevie Nicks turns into Cartman"'' version<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0L4R3EMXJ4|title=Tiff Stevenson does Stevie Nicks doing Cartman|website=youtube.com|date=5 September 2015|accessdate=3 July 2019 }}</ref> of "Dreams". They had been introduced only minutes before because Robinson was on ''The Office'' (US) and Stevenson was on the original UK show.<ref name=RHLSTP/>
She hosts the podcast ''Catharsis'' and is a regular co-host of ''The Bugle''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/pageca |title=CATHARSIS |website=thebuglepodcast.com |date=2021 |accessdate=21 December 2023 }}</ref>
==Personal life== Stevenson grew up in Greenford, West London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fest-mag.com/edinburgh/comedy/home-truths|title=Home Truths|website=fest-mag.com|date=25 July 2015|accessdate=3 July 2019}}</ref> Her father is originally from Prestwick in Scotland but moved to England as a teenager.<ref name="Glasgow"/> Her grandmother is from St. Andrews. Her husband Paul is also Scottish and frequently features in her stand-up shows as "Scottish Boyfriend Explains A Hing".<ref>{{cite web|last=McKenzie|first=Kirsty |url=https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/whats-on/part-beyonce-part-sylvia-plath-14417589|title=Part Beyoncé, part Sylvia Plath – Tiff Stevenson ready to take Glasgow by storm|website=GlasgowLive.co.uk|date=15 March 2018|accessdate=3 July 2019 }}</ref> She has a sister.<ref name="RHLSTP"/> Stevenson describes her parents' marriage as "a mixed-class relationship" because her father is from a wealthy Scottish-Presbyterian family and her mother is from a working-class Welsh-Kale Romani family.<ref name="RHLSTP"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Andrews|first=Kernan|url=https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/80297/the-funny-side-of-the-political-the-personal-and-the-social|title=The funny side of the political, the personal, and the social|website=advertiser.ie|date=15 October 2015|accessdate=3 July 2019 }}</ref>
Her father managed Wembley Stadium in the 1980s. When she was a young child she met stars like Annie Lennox and Freddie Mercury through her father's work at Wembley.<ref name="Glasgow"/><ref name="RHLSTP"/> Stevenson describes herself as "not really impressed by anyone" which she credits partly to meeting such stars frequently when she was very young and partly to becoming "jaded and cynical" when she saw many of her father's former friends disappearing from their lives after he had lost his job at Wembley.<ref name="RHLSTP"/> Very early on in her career, a manager told her to change her last name from Stevenson-Oake to just Stevenson because the double-barrelled name made her sound "posh".<ref name="RHLSTP"/>
Stevenson lives in North London with her husband and a cat.<ref name=RHLSTP/>
==Filmography== ===Film=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- | 2000 | ''Spinning Candyfloss'' | Colleen Sykes | |- | 2004 | ''Swiss Passport'' | Heidi | rowspan="5" | Short films |- | 2005 | ''Cuts'' | Adult 1st Assistant Director |- | 2006 | ''Dead Clean'' | Laura |- | 2010 | ''Suggestive'' | Mary Chomp |- | 2015 | ''Hand It Back'' | |- | 2016 | ''Neighbours from Hell'' | Joanna | |- | 2019 | ''Make a Killing'' | Handy Person | Short film |- | 2023 | ''Slotherhouse'' | Ms. Mayflower | |- | {{TableTBA}} | ''I'm Not You'' | Jackie | rowspan="2" | Post-production |- | {{TableTBA}} | ''Bleeding Poverty'' | Substitute Teacher |}
===Television=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- | rowspan="2" | 2001 | ''Chambers'' | Dawn | Series 2; episodes 1 & 2: "Conditional Fees" and "Survival Trek" |- | ''The Office'' | Lorna | Series 1; episode 5: "New Girl" |- | rowspan="2" | 2003 | ''Goal'' | Maria | |- | ''Absolute Power'' | Girl No. 3 (Anneka) | Series 1; episode 1: "History Man" |- | 2004 | ''Gaby & the Girls'' | Tamara | Also writer |- | rowspan="2" | 2005 | ''Footballers' Wive$ TV'' | Montana Mounds | Spin-off mockumentary comedy series to ''Footballers' Wives'' |- | ''Days That Shook the World'' | Maisy Curtis | Series 3; episode 3: "Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds / Hitler Diaries" |- | 2007 | ''Comedy Cuts'' | Signer | |- | 2013 | ''Love Matters'' | London Eye Official | Episode 2: "Officially Special" |- | 2015–2018 | ''People Just Do Nothing'' | Tanya | Series 2–5; 14 episodes |- | 2017 | ''White Gold'' | Sharon Webb | Series 1; episode 4: "The Widow Maker" |- | 2017–2019 | ''GameFace'' | Tania | Series 1 & 2; 5 episodes |- | 2021 | ''The Cockfields'' | Claire | Series 2; episode 7: "Christmas Special" |- | 2024 | ''LMAOF'' | Herself | Series 2; episode 34: "LMAOF 64: Edinburgh" |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website}} * {{IMDb name}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevenson, Tiff}} Category:English women comedians Category:Living people Category:1978 births Category:English people of Scottish descent Category:English people of Welsh descent Category:Comedians from London Category:Actresses from London Category:21st-century English actresses Category:21st-century English comedians Category:Welsh Romani people