Comedian, actress and writer
Daisy May Cooper
- Born: 1 August 1986
- Age: 40
Daisy May Cooper is an English comedian, actress and writer, aged 40, best known for co-creating and starring in the BBC sitcom This Country as Kerry Mucklowe, a role that won her a BAFTA TV Award in 2018. She grew up in a council house in Cirencester…
Daisy May Cooper: films and works
Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight
2025 · TV series
Impedimenta (voice)
Netflix animated series that began on 30 April 2025; she voices Impedimenta, wife of the chief Vitalstatistix, in the English-language cast.[1][11]
Where to watch it
Jack in Time for Christmas
2024 · TV special
Taxi driver
Jack Whitehall's festive special, in which she appears as a taxi driver.[28]
Where to watch it
Rain Dogs
2023 · TV series
Costello Jones
Eight-episode black comedy created by Cash Carraway for BBC One and HBO about a working-class single mother, her daughter and a friend; Cooper leads the cast.[5][28]
Where to watch it
Am I Being Unreasonable?
2022 · TV series
Nic; co-creator, co-writer, executive producer
BBC One comedy-thriller she created and wrote with Selin Hizli, about a mother whose new school-gate friendship exposes secrets; two series and 12 episodes so far, with a third and final series due in late 2026.[4][28]
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2021 · TV series
Team captain
Team captain on the Sky revival hosted by Greg Davies, alongside Noel Fielding, from 2021 until she stepped down in August 2025.[20][21][28]
Where to watch it
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2020 · TV special
Cheryl, an evil stepsister
Comic Relief Christmas pantomime with Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter and Tom Hollander in the cast.[28]
Taskmaster, series 10
2020 · TV series
Herself (contestant)
Ten-episode series; she won two episodes and totalled 158 points.[1][14][15]
Where to watch it
Avenue 5
2020 · TV series
Sarah and Zara
Armando Iannucci's HBO space comedy; she played Sarah in the first series and Zara in the second, and has a writing credit on one episode.[1][28]
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The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019 · Movie
Peggotty
Armando Iannucci's comic adaptation of the Dickens novel, starring Dev Patel, in which she plays the Copperfield family's housekeeper.[1][28]
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Celebrity Gogglebox
2019 · TV series
Herself
Appeared as a celebrity viewer with her father, Paul Cooper.[1][12][28]
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This Country
2017 · TV series
Kerry Mucklowe; co-creator and co-writer
The BBC Three mockumentary she created with Charlie Cooper: three series and 19 episodes between 2017 and 2020, plus an aftermath special in 2018.[3][28]
Where to watch it
Doc Martin
2011 · TV series
Young mum
One-episode role in series 5 (Remember Me), her first screen credit.[1][9][12]
Where to watch it
About Daisy May Cooper
Daisy May Cooper is an English comedian, actress and writer, aged 40, best known for co-creating and starring in the BBC sitcom This Country as Kerry Mucklowe, a role that won her a BAFTA TV Award in 2018. She grew up in a council house in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Early screen work was small (a young mother in Doc Martin in 2011, then PC Garvey in The Wrong Mans in 2014) and she spent years cleaning for a living, alongside her brother Charlie. Those years fed This Country, the mockumentary the two wrote and starred in about cousins in a Cotswolds village. It began on BBC Three on 8 February 2017, ran for three series and 19 episodes to March 2020, and won a clutch of BAFTA, BAFTA Craft and Royal Television Society awards, including a shared BAFTA for comedy writing in 2019. From there she moved between sitcom, drama and panel shows. She played Peggotty in Armando Iannucci's The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), joined the space comedy Avenue 5 (2020), took part in Taskmaster series 10 and became a team captain on the Sky revival of Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In 2022 she co-created and co-wrote the BBC One comedy-thriller Am I Being Unreasonable? with Selin Hizli, in which she plays Nic, and in 2023 she starred as Costello Jones in the black comedy Rain Dogs, a BBC One and HBO series. Her recent work leans into her love of the paranormal and of live comedy: the ghost-hunting series NightWatch with Charlie (BBC Two, 2025), LOL: Last One Laughing UK and its Halloween special, and a voice role in Netflix's Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight. She has also written a memoir, Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her (2021), the paranormal book Hexy B*tch (2024), hosted the Audible podcast Educating Daisy, and a third and final series of Am I Being Unreasonable? is due in late 2026.
Fun facts about Daisy May Cooper
- She voices Sue Mucklowe, Kerry's never-seen mother in This Country, and is credited for that part under the name Ivy Woodcock.
- Her real father, Paul Cooper, plays Kerry's father Martin Mucklowe in This Country, his first acting role, and her uncle Trevor Cooper plays the hoarder Len Clifton.
- Am I Being Unreasonable? borrows its title from the shorthand used on the Mumsnet message board, where posters ask whether they are being unreasonable.
- This Country is set in the Cotswolds and based on life in Cirencester, but it was filmed in and around the smaller town of Northleach because the channel thought Cirencester was too big.
- On Taskmaster series 10 she won two of the ten episodes and finished with 158 points, and collected seven disqualifications along the way.
- Fox remade This Country as the American sitcom Welcome to Flatch, which ran from March 2022 to February 2023; Daisy May and Charlie Cooper are credited as its original creators.
- She was revealed as the Otter on the fourth series of The Masked Singer UK in a double unmasking on 4 February 2023.
- Across its three series and the special, This Country drew more than 52 million BBC iPlayer requests.
Daisy May Cooper's career, year by year
Around 2010
Graduates from RADA
After attending Cirencester Deer Park School she trains at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, graduating around 2010.[1][12]
2011
Doc Martin
Her first screen credit is a one-episode part as a young mother in series 5 of the ITV drama Doc Martin.[1][12]
2011 to 2014
Cleaning work with Charlie
Finding little acting work, she returns to the West Country and cleans for a living alongside her brother; the siblings' experiences later feed into This Country.[1][12]
2014
The Wrong Mans and a binned pilot
Plays PC Garvey in two episodes of The Wrong Mans. A pilot based on the Coopers' sitcom pitch, called Kerry, is shot for ITV the same year but never released.[1][9]
2016
The Mucklowes appear on TV
Daisy May and Charlie first appear as Kerry and Kurtan Mucklowe on the BBC Three show Live from the BBC, before This Country is filmed that autumn.[3]
2017
This Country begins
This Country starts on BBC Three on 8 February 2017, with Daisy May as Kerry and Charlie as her cousin Kurtan, directed by Tom George.[3]
2018
Awards sweep for This Country
The sitcom wins three Royal Television Society awards on 20 March 2018, and Daisy May wins the BAFTA TV Award for female comedy performance in May while the show takes best scripted comedy. She also wins the BAFTA Craft breakthrough talent award. Series 2 begins on 26 February and a special follows in October.[3][9][16][17]
2019
Copperfield and a BAFTA for writing
Plays Peggotty in The Personal History of David Copperfield. In April she and Charlie win the BAFTA Craft award for comedy writing, and she marries Will Weston on 21 September.[1][9][17]
2020
Taskmaster and Avenue 5
This Country ends with a third series (February to March 2020), she joins Armando Iannucci's Avenue 5 on HBO and competes on Taskmaster series 10.[1][3][15]
2021
Buzzcocks and a memoir
Becomes a team captain on Sky's revival of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and publishes her memoir Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her with Michael Joseph on 28 October, a book about her poor rural upbringing and the jobs she held before fame.[18][20]
2022
Am I Being Unreasonable? and The Witchfinder
Co-creates and stars in Am I Being Unreasonable? for BBC One from 23 September, and plays Thomasine Gooch in the BBC Two sitcom The Witchfinder, which gets a mixed critical reception. Fox's remake Welcome to Flatch begins in March.[4][6][8][10]
2023
Rain Dogs, Masked Singer and awards
Unmasked as Otter on The Masked Singer UK in February, stars in Rain Dogs (HBO from 6 March) and wins the RTS award for female comedy performance on 29 March for Am I Being Unreasonable? She also launches the Audible podcast Educating Daisy and begins voicing TSB's elephant mascot Tiny.[1][4][5][13][24]
2024
Hexy B*tch and the Buzzcocks break
Her paranormal book Hexy B*tch, published by Radar, comes out on 24 October. She has her third child in June 2024, and Sophie Willan covers her Buzzcocks captaincy while she is on maternity leave. Educating Daisy is nominated at the British Podcast Awards.[19][21][25][26]
2025
Series 2, LOL and NightWatch
Series 2 of Am I Being Unreasonable? starts on 5 February, she appears in the first LOL: Last One Laughing UK in March, voices Impedimenta in Netflix's Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight from 30 April, leaves Never Mind the Buzzcocks in August, and fronts NightWatch on BBC Two from 26 October.[4][7][11][21][22]
2026
Halloween special and a final series
Returns for LOL: Last One Laughing Halloween (from 23 October 2026). A third and final series of Am I Being Unreasonable? is filming in June 2026 for broadcast later in the year, and she has announced a debut comic novel, What Took You So Long?[4][9][23]
Awards and festival selections
9 awards won and 8 other nominations and festival selections.
| Year | Festival or award | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Royal Television Society Programme AwardsThis Country | WonScripted Comedy[3][16] |
| 2018 | Royal Television Society Programme AwardsThis Country | WonComedy Performance, shared with Charlie Cooper[3][16] |
| 2018 | Royal Television Society Programme AwardsThis Country | WonWriter: Comedy, shared with Charlie Cooper[3][16] |
| 2018 | British Academy Television AwardsThis Country | WonFemale Comedy Performance[3][9][17] |
| 2018 | British Academy Television AwardsThis Country | WonScripted Comedy (as co-creator and star)[3][9][17] |
| 2018 | British Academy Television Craft AwardsThis Country | WonBreakthrough Talent, shared with Charlie Cooper[3][9] |
| 2018 | British Academy Television Craft AwardsThis Country | NominatedWriter: Comedy, shared with Charlie Cooper[3][9] |
| 2019 | British Academy Television Craft AwardsThis Country | WonWriter: Comedy, shared with Charlie Cooper[9][17] |
| 2019 | British Academy Television AwardsThis Country | NominatedFemale Comedy Performance[3][9] |
| 2021 | British Academy Television AwardsThis Country | NominatedFemale Comedy Performance[3][9] |
| 2021 | British Academy Television Craft AwardsThis Country | NominatedWriter: Comedy, shared with Charlie Cooper[3][9] |
| 2023 | Royal Television Society Programme AwardsAm I Being Unreasonable? | WonComedy Performance (Female)[4][9] |
| 2023 | British Academy Television AwardsAm I Being Unreasonable? | NominatedFemale Performance in a Comedy Programme[4][9] |
| 2023 | National Comedy AwardsAm I Being Unreasonable? | NominatedOutstanding Comedy Actress[4][9] |
| 2024 | Broadcasting Press Guild AwardsRain Dogs | NominatedBest Actress[5][9] |
| 2024 | RTS West of England AwardsRain Dogs | WonOn Screen Talent, Performance[9] |
| 2024 | British Podcast AwardsEducating Daisy | NominatedComedy category[9][25] |
Frequent collaborators
Charlie Cooper
Her younger brother and co-creator of This Country, where he plays her cousin Kurtan; they also front NightWatch and run the production company So Humble.[3][22][28]
Selin Hizli
Her drama-school friend and co-writer of Am I Being Unreasonable?, who plays Jen opposite her Nic.[4][28]
Paul Chahidi
Plays the kind-hearted vicar Francis Seaton, a mentor to Kerry and Kurtan, in This Country.[3][28]
Lenny Rush
Plays her son Ollie in Am I Being Unreasonable? and won the RTS breakthrough and male performance awards for it in 2023.[4][28]
Tim Key
Greg Davies
Hosts the Sky revival of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, where she was a team captain, and is the Taskmaster in the series she took part in.[14][20][28]
Armando Iannucci
Directed her in The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) and created Avenue 5, in which she appeared.[1][28]
Cash Carraway
Creator and writer of Rain Dogs, in which Cooper plays the lead.[5][28]
Jack Farthing
Her co-star in Rain Dogs, nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for the role.[5][28]
Style, technique and reception
Cooper's signature is the character comedy of small-town boredom. In This Country she and Charlie wrote about cousins in a Cotswolds village whose big events are scarecrow contests and pyramid-selling schemes, shot as a mockumentary. Her father and uncle appear in the cast, and she supplies the unseen voice of Kerry's mother, so much of the series is a family production built from places and people she knows. She has said the show grew from the years she and her brother spent cleaning for a living.[1][3][12]
Her range since has widened beyond sitcom. Am I Being Unreasonable? is a comedy-thriller, partly improvised, about secrets between two mothers, and Rain Dogs is a black comedy about a single mother; the second holds 93% on Rotten Tomatoes from 30 reviews and a Metacritic score of 87 from 14. She also writes: a memoir about her rural childhood and a book about her fascination with ghosts, spirits and astrology.[4][5][18][19]
On panel shows she plays the straight-talking, self-mocking guest. Talking about Taskmaster, she said she often went blank under time pressure and just committed to an answer, that her acting training did not help with the creative tasks, and that she did better at physical ones. She finished the series with two episode wins and 158 points.[14][15]
Critics praised This Country as one of the funniest and best observed British comedies of its time, with The Telegraph calling it the funniest thing on television at the moment and The Guardian praising its observation. Reception to her later work has been more mixed: reviews of The Witchfinder in 2022 ranged from enthusiastic (Beyond the Joke) to disappointed (The Guardian, The Independent), while Rain Dogs earned strong reviews.[3][5][10]
Where to watch Daisy May Cooper's films in Australia
LOL: Last One Laughing Halloween UK (2026)
- Subscription: Amazon Prime Video
Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's NightWatch (2025)
Not streaming, and not for rent or sale, in Australia.
LOL: Last One Laughing UK (2025)
- Subscription: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight (2025)
- Subscription: Netflix
Jack in Time for Christmas (2024)
- Subscription: Prime Video
Password (2024)
Not streaming, and not for rent or sale, in Australia.
Rain Dogs (2023)
- Subscription: Binge, Foxtel Now, HBO Max
- Buy: Apple TV ($22.99)
The Masked Singer UK, series 4 (2023)
Not streaming, and not for rent or sale, in Australia.
Am I Being Unreasonable? (2022)
- Subscription: Stan
- Free with ads: SBS On Demand
- Buy: Apple TV Store
The Witchfinder (2022)
Not streaming, and not for rent or sale, in Australia.
Welcome to Flatch (2022)
Not streaming, and not for rent or sale, in Australia.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World (2022)
- Subscription: Stan, WOW Presents Plus
- Free: WOW Presents Plus
Never Mind the Buzzcocks (2021)
- Free with ads: SBS On Demand
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas (2020)
Not streaming, and not for rent or sale, in Australia.
Taskmaster, series 10 (2020)
- Subscription: Binge, Foxtel Now
Avenue 5 (2020)
- Subscription: Foxtel Now, HBO Max
- Buy: Fetch TV ($43.98), Apple TV ($43.98)
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
- Subscription: Prime Video
- Rent: Fetch TV ($4.99), Apple TV ($4.99)
- Buy: Fetch TV ($14.99), Apple TV ($14.99)
Love the Sinner (2019)
Not streaming, and not for rent or sale, in Australia.
Celebrity Gogglebox (2019)
- Subscription: Binge, Foxtel Now
This Country (2017)
- Subscription: Stan
- Buy: Apple TV ($36.97)
The Wrong Mans (2014)
- Buy: Apple TV Store
Doc Martin (2011)
- Subscription: Binge, BritBox, Foxtel Now, Netflix, Prime Video
- Free: ABC iView
- Free with ads: 7plus
- Buy: Apple TV ($95.93)
Where to watch: JustWatch, checked 9 November 2026. Services change their catalogues often.
Latest releases
- Jack in Time for Christmas2024 / TMDB 4.9
- Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas2020 / TMDB 6.3
- The Personal History of David Copperfield2019 / TMDB 6.4
- Love the Sinner2019
Daisy May Cooper in the news
Questions about Daisy May Cooper
Who is Daisy May Cooper's husband?
Daisy May Cooper married Will Weston on 21 September 2019, and the couple were reported to have separated in 2021, so published reports do not currently show her as married. Hello! reports that he is the father of her two older children. She has said little publicly about the relationship since.
What movies has Daisy May Cooper been in?
Her main film role is Peggotty in Armando Iannucci's The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019). She also appears in the short Love the Sinner (2019), the Comic Relief pantomime Cinderella (2020) and Jack Whitehall's special Jack in Time for Christmas (2024). Most of her career is on television, and she voices Impedimenta in Netflix's Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight (2025).
Does Daisy May Cooper have a partner?
Daisy May Cooper has not made a current relationship part of her public work, and we only publish family details that she or major outlets have made public. What is on record is her marriage to Will Weston (2019 to a reported separation in 2021) and that she is the mother of three children. She has often talked about family life in interviews and in her memoir.
How old is Daisy May Cooper?
Daisy May Cooper is 40 years old. She was born on 1 August 1986, according to TMDB and the British Comedy Guide, and Wikidata agrees on the year. Wikipedia does not carry a birth date, so the day rests on those two sources.
What is Daisy May Cooper's net worth?
There is no reliable published figure for Daisy May Cooper's net worth, so we do not give one. What is on record points to steady, well-credited earning power: three series of This Country, which she co-created, and two series of the BBC One drama Am I Being Unreasonable?, which she created, wrote and executive produced, with a third to come. She was a Never Mind the Buzzcocks captain for years, wrote a memoir and the book Hexy B*tch, hosted an Audible podcast, voiced the TSB mascot Tiny, and runs a production company with Charlie. Fox's US remake Welcome to Flatch also credits her as an original creator. None of that comes with a published amount.
What TV shows has Daisy May Cooper been in?
Daisy May Cooper is best known for This Country (2017 to 2020), Am I Being Unreasonable? (2022 to 2026), Rain Dogs (2023) and The Witchfinder (2022). She also appeared in Avenue 5, The Wrong Mans and Doc Martin, was a contestant on Taskmaster series 10 and The Masked Singer UK (as Otter), and was a team captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Recent shows are NightWatch (2025) and LOL: Last One Laughing UK.
What is Daisy May Cooper's new show?
The third and final series of Am I Being Unreasonable? was filming in June 2026 and is due on the BBC later in 2026. She also took part in LOL: Last One Laughing Halloween on Prime Video in October 2026, fronted the ghost-hunting series NightWatch with her brother Charlie on BBC Two in 2025, and has announced a debut comic novel, What Took You So Long?
How tall is Daisy May Cooper?
There is no reliable published height for Daisy May Cooper. Neither Wikipedia nor Wikidata gives one, and she has not stated it in an interview we could find, so we do not publish a number. Some listing sites quote figures, but none shows where they come from. If she shares it, we will add it here.
When is Daisy May Cooper's birthday and where was she born?
Her birthday is 1 August 1986, according to TMDB and the British Comedy Guide. Sources disagree on her birthplace: Wikipedia says Basingstoke, Hampshire, while TMDB and Wikidata give Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Everyone agrees she grew up in Cirencester, in a two-bedroom council house, with her younger brother Charlie.
Does Daisy May Cooper have children?
Yes, she has three children. She has two older children from her marriage to Will Weston, and had a third child, a son, in June 2024, as reported by Chortle. She keeps her children's details private, so we do not list names.
Has Daisy May Cooper won a BAFTA?
Yes. She won the BAFTA TV Award for female comedy performance in 2018 for This Country, which also won best scripted comedy that night. She and Charlie then won the BAFTA Craft award for comedy writing in 2019, after taking the breakthrough talent award in 2018. She has also won two Royal Television Society prizes in 2018 and another in 2023 for Am I Being Unreasonable?
Is Daisy May Cooper related to Charlie Cooper?
Yes, Charlie Cooper is her younger brother. They created and wrote This Country together, with Charlie playing her cousin Kurtan, and they front the BBC Two ghost series NightWatch. Their father, Paul Cooper, played her on-screen dad in This Country, and their uncle Trevor Cooper also appears in the cast.
Where is Daisy May Cooper from, and what is her accent?
She is English and grew up in Cirencester in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire. This Country is set in that area and uses its rural speech, and she also voiced the unseen mum Sue Mucklowe in the show. Her voice work includes the TSB elephant mascot Tiny (2023) and Impedimenta in Netflix's Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight (2025).
Was Daisy May Cooper in The Masked Singer?
Yes. She was the Otter on the fourth series of The Masked Singer UK, unmasked in a double elimination on 4 February 2023. It is one of several light-entertainment appearances alongside Taskmaster, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and LOL: Last One Laughing UK.
Sources
- [1]Wikipedia: Daisy May Cooper
- [2]Wikidata: Daisy May Cooper (Q36490045)
- [3]Wikipedia: This Country
- [4]Wikipedia: Am I Being Unreasonable?
- [5]Wikipedia: Rain Dogs (TV series)
- [6]Wikipedia: The Witchfinder (TV series)
- [7]Wikipedia: LOL: Last One Laughing UK
- [8]Wikipedia: Welcome to Flatch
- [9]British Comedy Guide: Daisy May Cooper
- [10]British Comedy Guide: Daisy May Cooper press, March to May 2022
- [11]British Comedy Guide: Daisy May Cooper in Asterix and Obelix series
- [12]What to Watch: Daisy May Cooper, things you didn't know about the TV star
- [13]What to Watch: Who is Otter on The Masked Singer UK?
- [14]Channel 4 Press: Taskmaster, interview with Daisy May Cooper
- [15]Taskmaster Info: Daisy May Cooper
- [16]Chortle, 21 March 2018: This Country cleans up at RTS Awards
- [17]Chortle, 28 April 2019: Bafta for This Country duo
- [18]Chortle, 3 March 2021: Daisy May Cooper writes her memoirs
- [19]British Comedy Guide: Daisy May Cooper announces paranormal investigations book Hexy B*tch
- [20]Chortle, 14 July 2021: Never Mind The Buzzcocks is back
- [21]Chortle, 7 August 2025: Daisy May Cooper's not returning to Buzzcocks
- [22]Chortle, 12 September 2025: Ghost series from Daisy May and Charlie Cooper
- [23]Chortle, 23 October 2026: Last One Laughing Halloween review
- [24]Chortle, 26 April 2023: New podcasts for Daisy May Cooper, Lolly Adefope and Dara O Briain
- [25]Chortle, 27 September 2024: Alan Partridge wins best comedy podcast award
- [26]Chortle, 9 June 2024: Daisy May Cooper's son No3 arrives early
- [27]Hello!: Who is Daisy May Cooper's husband?
- [28]TMDB (person, credits, dates, birth details and posters)
Profile researched from these sources and reviewed 5 November 2026.