Personal Info
Birth date
1968-06-05 (57 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
Also known as
Melanie Clare Sophie Giedroyc
Mel Geidroyc
Mel Giedroyc
Biography
Melanie Giedroyc is an English presenter, actress and comedian, best known for her comedy work with Sue Perkins, co-hosting series including Light Lunch for Channel 4, The Great British Bake Off for the BBC and chat show Mel and Sue for ITV.
Filmography
The Graham Norton Show
7.2
Overview:
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.Strictly Come Dancing
5.9
Overview:
A dance competition where celebrities compete to be crowned the winner. Who is kicked out of the competition each week is decided by the judges scores and viewer votes. Are today's celebrities fleet of foot or do they have two left feet?Would I Lie to You?
7.713
Overview:
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.Never Mind the Buzzcocks
6.981
Overview:
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.Have I Got News for You
7.1
Overview:
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.Have I Got a Bit More News for You
7
Overview:
Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme.The Jonathan Ross Show
5.1
Overview:
The Jonathan Ross Show is a British chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2011 and currently airs on Saturday evenings following the conclusion of Ross' BBC One chat show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, in July 2010.Big Brother's Little Brother
5.8
Overview:
Each week, the housemate evicted from the Big Brother house the previous week traditionally spends another week on Big Brother's Little Brother, answering questions and taking part in Call BBLB along with other features. The show also boasts celebrity guests and experts who come in to discuss and analyse the remaining Big Brother housemates.The One Show
4.538
Overview:
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.RI:SE
2
Overview:
RI:SE is a breakfast television show made by Princess Productions in collaboration with BSkyB for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. It was scheduled to replace The Big Breakfast after declining ratings. It launched on 29 April 2002. The programme was broadcast between 06:55 and 09:00 in the morning - nationally in the UK.8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
7.2
Overview:
Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz.8 Out of 10 Cats
7.125
Overview:
8 Out of 10 Cats is a British television comedy panel game produced by Zeppotron for Channel 4. It was first broadcast on 3 June 2005. The show is based on statistics and opinion polls, and draws on polls produced by a variety of organizations and new polls commissioned for the programme, carried out by company Harris Poll. The show's title is derived from a well-known advertising tagline for Whiskas cat food, which originally claimed that "8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas".Taskmaster
8.255
Overview:
Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, and with the help of his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne, they will set out to test the wiles, wit, wisdom and skills of five hyper-competitive comedians. Who will be crowned the Taskmaster champion in this brand new game show?Duck Quacks Don't Echo
5.7
Overview:
Lee Mack wrangles a team of scientists and celebrity guests to find the truth behind the trivia on this bizarrely educational panel show.Room 101
6.3
Overview:
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.The Great British Bake Off
7.511
Overview:
This British television baking competition selects from amongst its competitors the best amateur baker. The series is credited with reinvigorating interest in baking throughout the UK, and many of its participants, including winners, have gone on to start a career based on baking.V Graham Norton
5
Overview:
V Graham Norton was an entertainment programme shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom starring Graham Norton, broadcast every weeknight as a successor to the weekly So Graham Norton. It aired from 6 May 2002 to 26 December 2003. It featured celebrities who chatted with Graham and became involved in studio games which were usually laden with sexual innuendo. The studio games were later featured on the clip show Nortonland in 2007 on digital channel Challenge. The show featured a 'webcam', a roving television camera which was randomly situated in a different place in the UK each week and which followed Graham's instructions and allowed him to interact with the public live. The feature was made technically possible using digital microwave link technology provided by Rear Window Television with the 'spontaneous' webcam feature always produced as a full quality Outside Broadcast, before being made to look like a traditional webcam at the studios.Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
6.559
Overview:
British comedian Richard Ayoade (later taken over by Joe Lycett), accompanied by a celebrity guest, takes a ruthlessly efficient approach to travel, covering everything top tourist destinations have to offer in just 48 hours.GMTV
5.6
Overview:
GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end. The final edition of GMTV was broadcast on 3 September 2010.Light Lunch
NYR
Overview:
Light Lunch was a Channel 4 lunch-time comedy chatshow broadcast between March 1997 and February 1998. It starred Mel and Sue. The show was a huge success initially but audience figures declined slowly eventually resulting in viewing figures merely deemed "satisfactory" by Channel 4.Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable
7
Overview:
The comedy show in which the nation's favourite comics and celebrities compete to convince Mel Giedroyc that they are the most Unforgivable person in the room. To do this they will have to dredge up their most outrageous sins, lies, legal transgressions and morally bankrupt behaviour.Blankety Blank
7
Overview:
Bradley Walsh presents the triumphant return of Britain's blank-iest game show. Can he control his celebrity panel and help contestants win the coveted cheque book and pen?Let's Dance for Comic Relief
6.7
Overview:
Celebrities perform famous dance routines in front of a panel of judges to raise money for the Comic Relief appeal, with viewers voting for their favourites.Pointless
6.6
Overview:
Quiz in which contestants try to score as few points as possible by plumbing the depths of their general knowledge to come up with the answers no-one else can think of.The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
NYR
Overview:
Comic Relief takes over the Great British Bake Off tent. Different celebrity faces battle it out with their baking skills to claim one of the coveted Comic Relief Star Baker titles.Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
8
Overview:
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule is a panel show that sees Harry Hill presiding over two teams tasked with saving planet earth from alien invasion! Each team must find clips, people, basically anything that is fun or funny enough for Harry to place in a capsule which, in the event that we're invaded by aliens, we can present to them to demonstrate earthlings are good fun and therefore worthy of saving. Over a series of rounds, the two teams of two present Harry with fun stuff which Harry must adjudicate on and ultimately decide what's in and what's out of the Fun Capsule with the triumphant team winning bragging rights. Along the way there will be sketches, studio items and special guests. And the occasional appearance of an alien.Big Fat Quiz
7.6
Overview:
Presenter Jimmy Carr oversees a panel of top-name celebrities in this year end quiz show where they compete to see who can answer the most questions correctly.Sorry, I've Got No Head
6.5
Overview:
A sketch show jam packed with big, silly characters and fun repeatable catchphrases to make you laugh. From vikings who scream when scared to a chef who farts too much, this is must watch comedy for all the family. The programme's cast originally consisted of William Andrews, David Armand, James Bachman, Marcus Brigstocke, Anna Crilly, Justin Edwards, Mark Evans, Mel Giedroyc, Marek Larwood and Nick Mohammed, most of whom have also written parts of the show.Acting
TBAHave I Got a Bit More News for You (6 Episodes) as Self - Presenter
2024Pictionary (23 Episodes) as Self - Host
2023imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter as Self
2023Mary Makes It Easy (1 Episode) as Self
2023Mel Giedroyc & Martin Clunes Explore Britain by the Book as Herself
2023Puppy School for Guide Dogs (4 Episodes) as Narrator
2023Take That's Greatest Days: 30 Years in the Making as Herself
2021One Night in… (5 Episodes) as Narrator
2021Along for the Ride with David O'Doherty (1 Episode) as Self
2021Handmade: Britain's Best Woodworker (22 Episodes) as Self - Presenter
2021Blankety Blank (1 Episode) as Self - Panellist
2021The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out as Self
2021Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable (32 Episodes) as Self - Host
2020Between the Covers (2 Episodes) as Self
2020How to Build a Girl as Charlotte Bronte
2020Hitmen (12 Episodes) as Jamie Koslowski
2017Pitch Battle (6 Episodes) as Self - Host
2017Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief (4 Episodes) as Self - Presenter
2017Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule (1 Episode) as Self
2017Let It Shine (10 Episodes) as Presenter
2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves as Beverly-Jane (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016Insert Name Here (1 Episode) as Self - Panelist
2015The Sound of Music Live! as Frau Schmidt
2015Rocky Horror Show Live as Presenter
2015Taskmaster (8 Episodes) as Self
2015Travel Man: 48 Hours in... (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2015Now You See It (16 Episodes) as Narrator
2014The Home That 2 Built (4 Episodes) as Self - Narrator (voice)
2014Gareth's All Star Choir (2 Episodes) as Herself - Choir Member
2014Collectaholics (1 Episode) as Unknown
2014Duck Quacks Don't Echo (1 Episode) as Unknown
20138 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (1 Episode) as Self - Contestant
2013The Great Comic Relief Bake Off (5 Episodes) as Herself - Presenter
2012The Great Sport Relief Bake Off (5 Episodes) as Self - Host
2011The Jonathan Ross Show (1 Episode) as Self
2010The Great British Bake Off (89 Episodes) as Self - Presenter
2010Zoo Factor (5 Episodes) as Unknown
2010What Do Kids Know? (1 Episode) as Unknown
2009Pointless (11 Episodes) as Self - Presenter
2009Genius with Dave Gorman (1 Episode) as Unknown
2009Let's Dance for Comic Relief (1 Episode) as Self - Judge
2008Sorry, I've Got No Head (39 Episodes) as Various
2007Would I Lie to You? (4 Episodes) as Self
2007The Graham Norton Show (1 Episode) as Self
2007Comedy Map of Britain (1 Episode) as Unknown
2006The One Show (2 Episodes) as Self
2006Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy as Mist
2006School's Out (1 Episode) as Self
2005Blessed (8 Episodes) as Unknown
20058 Out of 10 Cats (4 Episodes) as Self
2005Darts Players' Wives as Self - Narrator
2004Big Fat Quiz (1, 1 Episode) as Self - Contestant, Self - Panellist
2004Strictly Come Dancing (1 Episode) as Self
2003The Games (27 Episodes) as Self
2003Comic Relief Does Fame Academy (40 Episodes) as Unknown
2002V Graham Norton (1 Episode) as Self
2002RI:SE (410 Episodes) as Unknown
2002Last Rumba in Rochdale as Unknown
2001Big Brother's Little Brother (2 Episodes) as Self
2000Rhona (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1999Casting Couch (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1998Late Lunch (37 Episodes) as Unknown
1997Light Lunch (150 Episodes) as Unknown
1996Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1 Episode) as Self
1996Never Mind the Horrocks as Unknown
1996Fisted as Herself
1994Room 101 (2 Episodes) as Self
1993GMTV (1 Episode) as Self
1990Have I Got News for You (1, 1, 2 Episode) as Guest Presenter, Self – Guest Host, Self - Guest Host
1988This Morning (1 Episode) as Self
1980Children In Need (2 Episodes) as Host