Celeste Dring


Celeste Dring is an English comedy writer and actress, best known for her roles as Lauren Richards in the BBC TV series Wanderlust and as Princess Eugenie in Channel 4's The Windsors

Early life

Celeste Dring is from Wolverhampton, England. She studied English at the University of Cambridge and graduated in July 2010. Dring wrote an article for the university magazine Varsity for 12 November 2010, Dring started her career as a dance director at the Central Youth Theatre, Wolverhampton and directed the senior production of Glamour and Romance for Everybody Dance Now for the Central Youth Theatre's Cultural Olympiad Project in 2011.

Comedy career

Dring chose comedy after being influenced by the 1999 beauty pageant comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous and worked stand-up with her partner Freya Parker in the comedy duo Lazy Susan. She first appeared on screen in her own co-written comedy sketches at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013. A further appearance at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe found "Lazy Susan" nominated for the comedy newcomer award.
In 2016, Dring landed a main role as Princess Eugenie in Channel 4's The Windsors and later purported that her characterisation of Eugenie is based on characters in Made in Chelsea than that of real-life.
Dring appeared as Kayleigh Hudson a regular character in the BBC3 comedy series This Country in 2018. Dring also appeared as Laura in BBC's Wanderlust the same year.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2016–2020 The Windsors Princess EugenieChannel 4 - 20 episodes
2017–2020 This Country Kayleigh HudsonBBC - 4 episodes
2019 Down from LondonCamMermade - 1 episode
2019LadhoodPenelopeBBC - 1 episode
2019 Lazy Susanvarious charactersTiger Aspect
2019 Absentia Liza TuteeAmazon Prime - 1 episode
2018 WanderlustLaura RichardsBBC1 - 5 episodes
2016 Morgana Robinson's The Agency Sauce Scientist2 episodes
2016 Year Friends Suzie the chef1 episode
2015Josh LilyBBC3 - 1 episode
2015 SunTrap Barmaid ZorroBBC1 - 1 episode
2015 Smell Investigators Pete Lazarusshort film