Katy Wix

Wix was born in Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales.[2][3] She attended the University of Warwick in Coventry before going on to the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.[4]

In 2007, Wix joined the cast of sitcom Not Going Out as recurring character Daisy and then went on to be a regular from Series 3 until her final appearance in the 2015 Christmas special.[5] In Torchwood: Children of Earth she plays Rhiannon Davies, the sister of Ianto Jones.[6] In 2010, she presented the BBC Three series The King Is Dead. She made guest appearances on the BBC shows Horrible Histories, Outnumbered (2010) and Absolutely Fabulous (2011). She also appeared in the Harvey's Furniture Store sponsorship bumpers for Coronation Street.

She played Phoebe in Tom Basden's stage comedy Party and its subsequent three series spin-off on BBC Radio 4 also called Party. Wix wrote and co-starred in the same station's comedy series Bird Island, which also featured Reece Shearsmith, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Alison Steadman.

In 2017, for the BBC, she portrayed Nurse Cornish in an episode of the TV crime drama Sherlock, and Florence Fagin in the TV dramatisation of Decline and Fall. She also featured in the radio series Ankle Tag (BBC Radio 4) and The Accidental AM (BBC Radio Wales). She also plays Mary, one of the main characters, in the 2019 BBC One sitcom Ghosts.

In 2021 she published Delicacy: a memoir of cake and death, a work of non-fiction in which she recounts 21 life-defining moments, each beginning with a memory of cake.

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