Award-winning comedian, writer, presenter and actress
In 2022, Katherine hosted her own hilarious flagship series for Amazon Prime - Backstage with Katherine Ryan. She also hosts the hit prime time BBC Two series All That Glitters and recently filmed a comedy travel show with Joe Wilkinson for Channel 4.
Katherine’s latest special, Missus, aired on Sky Comedy last year to high acclaim and she can be seen playing a lead role alongside Romesh Ranganathan in Sky Comedy’s Romantic Getaway.
Her debut Netflix sitcom The Duchess in 2020 leapt to the top of the UK Netflix chart, spending over a week in the number one spot. Katherine stars in the lead role, and wrote and executive-produced all episodes. Camilla Long of The Sunday Times wrote: “It’s a savagely rude and whip-smart sitcom based on Ryan’s experiences as a single mother, and I devoured it in one sitting”.
The Duchess followed two critically-acclaimed stand-up specials for Netflix – Glitter Room, and In Trouble making Katherine only the second UK-based comedian to get a Netflix Global comedy special (after Jimmy Carr) and the first woman.
Her debut book The Audacity went straight into the Sunday Times Bestseller list. Her hit podcast Telling Everybody Everything frequently tops the podcast charts.
Outside of television, Katherine has sold-out venues across the UK, US and Canada with her unique shows. She took Glitter Room, to The Garrick Theatre in London’s West End for a four-week run after a sell-out nationwide tour and her latest show, Missus, played at the London Palladium multiple times after a sell-out international tour.
