Susan Elizabeth Perkins is an English actress, broadcaster, comedian, presenter and writer. Originally coming to prominence through her comedy partnership with Mel Giedroyc in Mel and Sue, she has since become best known as a radio broadcaster and television presenter, notably of The Great British Bake Off (2010–2016), Insert Name Here (2016–2019) and Just a Minute (since 2021) on BBC Radio 4.

Filmography

• 2026Blaiklock: The Refuge in Need of Rescue — Narrator
• Win Win — Host
• 2023Queer Planet — Narrator (voice)
• Enter the House of the Dragon — Presenter
• Sue Perkins' Big American Road Trip — Host
• The John Bishop Show
• Patriot Brains — Host
• Comedy Game Night — Team Captain
• Hitmen — Fran
• 2020How to Build a Girl — Emily Bronte
• 2019Last Christmas — Ice Show Director
• 2019Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again — Judy Graymer (The Producer)
• Apple & Onion — Bakewell Tart (voice)
• Celebrity Catchphrase
• 2018Game of Thrones Greatest Moments — Narrator
• 2018Sue Perkins and the Chimp Sanctuary — Herself, Presenter
• The Horne Section Television Programme
• 2017Game of Thrones: The Story So Far — Presenter
• The Ganges with Sue Perkins — Presenter
• Banana — Writer
• Duck Quacks Don't Echo
• 2014International Men's Day — Narrator (Voice)
• Heading Out — Sara, Writer, Creator
• World's Most Dangerous Roads
• A Band for Britain
• 2009The Art on Your Wall with Sue Perkins — Presenter
• What the Dickens? — Team Captain
• Comedy Map of Britain
• The Terry and Gaby Show
• Dinotopia
• RI:SE
• Casting Couch
• Gimme Gimme Gimme — Beverly-Ann
• Late Lunch
• Light Lunch
• Fist of Fun — Woman with Imaginary Friend
• Absolutely Fabulous — Additional Writing
• Casualty — Dr. Lloyd
• Countdown
• Omnibus

Appearances as themselves (64)

• Chess Masters: The Endgame — Self - Presenter
• Mary's Foolproof Dinners — Self
• Sue Perkins' Big Adventure: Paris to Istanbul — Self - Host
• Sue Perkins: Lost In Alaska — Self - Host
• Sue Perkins: Lost in Thailand — Self - Host
• 2023Take That's Greatest Days: 30 Years in the Making — Self
• 2023imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter — Self
• Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal — Self - Host
• Blankety Blank — Self - Panellist
• 2021Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel — Self
• The Greatest Snowman — Self - Host
• Michael McIntyre's The Wheel — Self - Expert
• Sue Perkins: Along the US–Mexico Border — Self - Presenter
• Hypothetical — Self
• Japan with Sue Perkins — Herself - Presenter
• The Big Narstie Show — Self
• 2018The Horne Section Television Programme — Self – Special guest
• All Round to Mrs. Brown's — Self
• Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief — Self - Presenter
• Our Lives — Self - Narrator
• The Big Spell — Herself - Host
• Insert Name Here — Self - Host
• 2015Kolkata with Sue Perkins — Herself - Presenter
• Mel & Sue — Self
• Taskmaster — Self
• Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled — Self
• The Mekong River with Sue Perkins — Self - Presenter
• Crackanory — Self
• The Great Comic Relief Bake Off — Self - Presenter
• The Last Leg — Self
• 2012Climbed Every Mountain: The Story Behind the Sound of Music — Herself - Presenter
• Don't Sit in the Front Row — Self - Panellist
• Just a Minute — Self
• The Great Sport Relief Bake Off — Self - Host
• All Roads Lead Home — Herself
• Don't Scare the Hare — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2011Giles and Sue's Royal Wedding — Self
• 2011Making Qi — Self
• 2011Mrs Dickens' Family Christmas — Herself - Presenter
• Thronecast — Self - Presenter
• 2011Tim Minchin: BBC Comedy Prom 2011 — Self- Host
• Giles And Sue Live The Good Life — Herself - Presenter
• 2010Revealing Anne Lister — Self - Presenter
• The Bubble — Self
• The Great British Bake Off — Self - Presenter
• We Need Answers — Self - Contestant
• Maestro — Self
• The Supersizers... — Self - Presenter
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• Would I Lie to You? — Self
• The One Show — Self, Self - Guest
• 8 Out of 10 Cats — Self
• Mock the Week — Self
• QI — Self
• V Graham Norton — Self
• Big Brother's Little Brother — Self
• Celebrity Big Brother — Self
• Richard & Judy — Self
• 1996Fisted — Self
• Room 101 — Self
• Have I Got News for You — Self, Self - Hostess
• Have I Got a Bit More News for You — Self - Presenter
• Mrs Dickens' Family Christmas — Herself