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5 min readOct 18, 2019

Phoebe Waller-Bridge — What kind of woman can start at a low-budget drama until win three Emmy Awards.

YU LIN 18/10/2019 12:30pm

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This year’s Emmy Award made the British woman known by the public — Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Her representative work Fleabag won the Emmy for best comedy, best director, best screenplay and best actress. This picture was put on Instagram by Josh Cole. From the Edinburgh festival to the Emmy Awards, she felt like the queen of the world at the moment when she won the three trophies. A proud look seems like saying I’m number one in the world. She used her own way to change the world’s view of women, with a confident smile to tell the world the greatness of women. After the Emmy, the 34-year-old actor, writer and producer has signed a new three-year exclusive programming deal with amazon, and she said in a statement that she is excited to continue working with Amazon as an innovative partner.

Phoebe grew up in the middle — and upper-class family. Her father and friends founded a trade point, the first fully electronic stock market. Her mother, who works in an iron shop, is happy with the environment she grew up in, saying she grew up in a lovely, safe and loving environment. In the family, Isobel and Jasper, the elder sister and the younger brother. The relationship between the three siblings is also perfect. Her sister created the arrangements for Fleabag.

Phoebe had been in the theater since high school, and she had a great sense of accomplishment by bringing joy to the public. She used her talent to blurt out a joke when someone was feeling sad. So she went to the Royal Academy of drama for in-depth study. She met Vicky Jones in 2008, they encouraged and mentored each other in writing, and eventually founded Drywirte theater. She now plays at London’s Soho theater, including the original Fleabag and jack there’s my generation, author of harry potter and the cursed child. In the beginning, she wrote low-budget scripts, performed on her own, performed at the Edinburgh festival and appeared on the BBC. After winning three times, the writer and actress told the audience at the ceremony that it was ridiculous. At work, she says, you have to assume that your audience is smarter than you to create excellent work. As the writer, producer and heroine of the show, one person got three trophies. Meanwhile, she wrote and directed TV series called Killing Eve, won the best actress, best supporting actress, best sound effect and best soundtrack at this year’s BAFTA awards.

Fleabag is undoubtedly her most successful work to date, her most successful character to date, and when asked whether will return, she said never say never. Fleabag’s future may have many more stories to tell, with the open-ended ending giving viewers plenty to think about it. She is a co-writer of the upcoming bond movie. It was reportedly Daniel Craig who personally requested that Phoebe Waller-Bridge be brought on board to help liven up the script. The Fleabag ending is not an ordinary storyline, and it is essential to meet a humane priest, fall in love with him and then marry the church is an interesting dilemma, if there are active enough love and spiritual life, maybe she will marry the godfather.

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It seems that she is very good at creating complex and contradictory female characters. No matter fleabag or killing eve, the female characters she created are very successful, showing different female characters with delicate perspective and unique narrative way, and showing the audience a bigger world. She broke everyone’s stereotype of women. She said that she was always feel satisfied when she use her own interests point to writing. She participated in tv series crashing is also the homing from black comedy, by means of exaggerated funny, a group of people the reality of sorrow. “It’s my respect for growing up, like Friends and This life,” phoebe said of the crashing. When people ask Fleabag where she came from, she says she got to know the character while performing a 10-minute segment. She wants all women to open up and vent their frustrations. Instead of being influenced by public opinion, closing your heart and hiding your desires. Because in traditional drama and television, sexism objectifies women. In fact, exploring a woman’s real psychological desire is very exciting. One of her biggest regrets after becoming famous was that she didn’t protect her family from the public speculation that Fleabag was a fact book. She said that women also could make up things; not all of them are diaries. This is actually a grave concern. The plot of the story includes losing the best friend, losing communication with parents, or not getting an excellent new partner, all of which are self-worries. In fact, her mother was still alive and well, and he got along well with his stepmother and father. But the problem is that everything is possible. She may have been born with a gift for picking up on other people’s moods, and when the atmosphere is down, she says she always blurts out a joke to set the mood. Talent and hard work made today’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge. She still shows her warm personality to the audience and changes the world’s view of women in her own way. With a unique sense of humor to describe the world she understood. That may be why more and more people like her.