• About

    Fay Ripley

    BAFTA nominated actress, bestselling author and broadcaster Fay Ripley has enjoyed a wide-ranging career across television, film, theatre, publishing and audio.
     
    Fay became a household name through her role as Jenny Gifford in ITV’s landmark comedy drama Cold Feet. Her performance earned her a BAFTA Television Award nomination for Best Actress, and she remains one of the programme’s most recognisable and popular stars.
     
    Her extensive television credits include ITV dramas The Delivery Man, I Saw You, Bon Voyage and Monday Monday, alongside BBC productions The Stretford Wives and Reggie Perrin. Fay also played DI Martha Bellamy in Channel 5’s acclaimed improvised crime drama Suspects and starred as Anne Stone opposite Neil Morrissey and James Buckley in the four-part thriller Finders Keepers.



     

  • Beyond acting, Fay has established herself as a trusted and highly successful voice in food and family life. Her bestselling cookbooks include Fay’s Family Food, What’s for Dinner? and Fay Makes It Easy, with her accessible, practical approach to home cooking earning her the Mumsnet Best Cookbook Award.
     
    Fay also co-hosted the Audible Original podcast Baddiel and Ripley’s Buy, Leave It or Not with her longtime friend David Baddiel. The comedy consumer series saw the pair testing, reviewing and debating the products, trends and questionable purchases that define modern life.
     
    Warm, candid and naturally funny, Fay combines the familiarity of one of Britain’s best-loved actors with an authentic voice across food, family, culture and everyday life.