Kate Copstick

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Kate Copstick
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Glasgow, Scotland
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Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
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  • Actress
  • television presenter
  • writer
  • critic
  • director
  • producer
Years active1982–present
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Kate Copstick is a Scottish actress, television presenter, writer, critic, director and producer.

Early life

She was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and studied for a law degree at the University of Glasgow.[1]

Career

As a comedy actor, Copstick appeared on children's TV shows No. 73 in the 1980s, and ChuckleVision in the 1990s. She played the titular role in children's series Marlene Marlowe Investigates, and performed as part of the ensemble cast of former Saturday morning BBC children's show On the Waterfront. Copstick executive produced the Natural Born Racers TV series[2] that followed the Virgin Mobile Yamaha R6 Cup.[3]

Copstick is a commentator on human sexuality. After years writing for the Erotic Review,[4] she became its owner in 2009.[5][6][7][8]

At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Copstick was a Perrier Comedy Award judge in 2003[9] and 2004,[10] and a Malcolm Hardee Award judge in 2008–2015.[11] She lends her voice to the announcements at Fort William railway station.[12]

She is The Scotsman newspaper's comedy critic,[13][14] having begun reviewing for the paper in 1999.[15]

Work with charitable organisations

Copstick has worked in Kenya with HIV+ women and their families. Through the Children With AIDS Charity, of which she is vice-chair, she started Mama Biashara ("Business Mother") in 2008,[16] working to set these women up in small businesses, thus making them financially independent.[17][18][19][20] The slogan of the charity is "A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out", and its survival is dependent on donations and on raising money from the Mama Biashara shop in Shepherd's Bush Green, London.[21][22]

Copstick made Positive Thinking for BBC One, a documentary on HIV/AIDS aimed at children.[23] She is a patron of the Waverley Care Trust.[24]

Personal life

Copstick was attacked and robbed close to her home in west London in September 2022. The robbers took £8,500 that she had raised for her charity Mama Biashara.[1][25]

Theatre

Year Title Role Company Director Notes
1982 The Shepherd Beguiled Jean Theatre Alba Charles Nowosielski play by Netta B. Reid

Filmography

Actress

Writer

Self

Bibliography

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sugden, Maureen (4 September 2022). "Scots star of 1980s children's TV mugged for charity money in London street". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Broadcast magazine". 7 November 2007.
  3. ^ "'natural Born Racers' Come To Life", MCP, 24 April 2003.
  4. ^ "Erotic Review Magazine: The Editorial Team". Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tait, Simon (14 June 2009). "'Erotic Review' back to titillate – and educate". The Independent. London. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cornwell, Tim (14 May 2009). "Tim Cornwell's arts diary: Erotic credentials open the door to Number 11". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lauener, Paul (15 June 2009). "Erotic Review owner: 'Women can't write about sex'". Reuters. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Women can't write about sex". abc.net.au. 28 July 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BBC News". 20 August 2003. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jones, Rebecca (11 August 2004). "BBC News". Retrieved 5 January 2010.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Malcolm Hardee Award site, 2008". Archived from the original on 8 February 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2008.
  12. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kate Copstick Biography". UK game shows.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jackson, Debbie (8 August 2022). "'One person turned up to watch my Fringe show'". BBC Scotland. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Copstick, Kate (15 August 2025). "Kate Copstick's Festival Diary: 'None of this really matters'". The Scotsman. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cox, Roger (3 June 2025). "The Scotsman's 2025 Edinburgh Festival coverage: everything you need to know | Reviewer biographies". The Sotsman. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About Our Organization". Mama Biashara. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fleming, John (23 September 2015). "Critic Kate Copstick shows how to make a difference in Africa – or anywhere". The John Fleming Blog. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fleming, John (8 November 2012). "Feared UK Comedy Critic Kate Copstick Has Links With African Criminals and Deals Drugs in Kenya". Huffington Post. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
  19. ^ Fleming, John (20 February 2018), "Mama Biashara’s expanding charity work in Kenya – with Kate Copstick", So It Goes.
  20. ^ Fleming John (15 February 2019), "Kate Copstick and the sexually-abused girl being held in a Nairobi hospital", So It Goes.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Shop". mamabiashara.co.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2026.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fleming, John (26 March 2018). "Critic Kate Copstick needs money and is offering to provide feel-good pampering". Retrieved 4 February 2026.
  23. ^ CWAC's Board of Trustees
  24. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Key People". Waverley Care. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Actress Kate Copstick attacked and robbed of charity money". BBC News. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.

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