ACTOR. WRITER.
MEG
SALTER
ABOUT
Meg is an actress and a multi-award winning comedian and filmmaker. Having won the prestigious William and Katherine Longman Scholarship to train at LAMDA, she graduated with a role in Brian Percival's BBC One drama A Song For Jenny opposite Emily Watson. Other credits include Call The Midwife (BBC), Downton Abbey (ITV), The Head Hunter (Amazon Prime), The Sam Wanamaker Festival (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Oedipus (The Almeida).
Most recently she filmed an episode of Call the Midwife (BBC) and starred in a viral music video for Easy Life. Meg is also developing a Muriel sketch show for TV which she will write and star in alongside Janine Harouni and Sally O’Leary, as well as a TV comedy with Muriel for Fulwell73.
Muriel, hailed as the ‘New Smack the Pony’ (Chortle & Evening Standard) are best known for their viral online sketches. Their most recent collaborations with BBC Studios remain some of BBC Three’s most viewed and engaged-with sketches to date. Their most recent sketch, Asking for It, garnered 50million views worldwide. Their critically acclaimed debut show Bad Master enjoyed a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and two sold out runs at the Soho Theatre. They are also the proud winners of the Leicester Square Sketch-Off and the So You Think You’re Funny Sketch Competition.
As an independent film maker, Meg is the winner of both the First Light Award in association with BAFTA and the Film Nation Award in association with the Cultural Olympiad. She was selected for the 2020-2021 BFI Network x BAFTA Crew, and is currently developing several original projects for Film and TV including her comedy-drama DISGRACE with Red Productions, GET AWAY with Eleventh Hour Films, X vs. Y with Wild Mercury, INK with RubyRock and a new show for Nicola Shindler at Quay Street Productions. She is currently writing an episode for upcoming thriller, THE RIG for Wild Mercury/Amazon (dir. John Strickland).
First Light Award in association with BAFTA
Film Nation Award in association with the Cultural Olympiad
So You Think You're Funny Sketch Award
Leicester Square Sketch Off Competition
Film / TV / Online
Call the Midwife (S10)
The Rig
Coming Out
Get Away
X vs. Y
Disgrace
INK
Nice Guys
Laughing at Salad
BBC Quickies: Asking For It
BBC Quickies: Eva Evergreen
BBC Quickies: Mother's Day
BBC Quickies: Witch Hunt
BBC Quickies: T.W.A.T.S
BBC Quickies: Bad Laptop
Summer Survivors
No Man's Sky with Bill Bailey
Future Female Film Reboots
If Festivals Were People
The Great British Political Bake Off
If Tube Lines Were People
The Head Hunter
A Song For Jenny
Downton Abbey
Neal Street Productions
Wild Mercury / Amazon
Fulwell 73
Eleventh Hour Films
Wild Mercury / Kudos
Red Productions
RubyRock
Easy Life (Island Records)
Comedy Central
BBC Three
BBC Three
BBC Three
BBC Three
BBC Three
BBC Three
Roughcut
Roughcut
Muriel Comedy
Muriel Comedy
Muriel Comedy
Muriel Comedy
Amazon Prime
BBC One
ITV
Mrs Ball
Writer (1 Episode)
Writer / Creator as Muriel
Writer / Creator
Writer / Creator
Writer / Creator
Writer / Creator
Talkshow Host
Writer
Writer / Performer
Writer / Performer
Writer / Performer
Writer / Performer
Writer / Performer
Performer
Jean
Housemate
Writer / Performer
Writer / Performer
Writer / Performer
Writer / Performer
Cindy Schall
Joanne
Bright Young Thing
2021
2021
2021
2020
2020
202
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
2018
2018
2018
2017
2017
2017
2016
2016
2016
2015
2014
Stage
Muriel: Bad Master
Muriel: Bad Master
The Moon's a Balloon (Reading)
NFTS
Oedipus
Blank Pages
Grimm Tales
The Maid's Tragedy
Soho Theatre
Underbelly Edinburgh
Philip Wilson & Lord Grade
Soho Theatre
Almeida
Mingled Yarn
Philip Pullman Productions
The Globe -
Sam Wanamaker Festival
Writer / Performer
Writer / Performer
Primmie
Francesca / Lauren
Jocasta
Carole
Thousand Furs
Evadne
2018
2017
2017
2017
2016
2016
2015
2014
Voice
Google Advert
Godzilla Advert (Warner Bros)
Milkybar Wowsomes
I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella
Malibu Halloween
Warner Bros
Nestlé Milkybar
Penguin Random House
Malibu Rum
Narrator
Narrator
Narrator
Narrator
Narrator
2019
2019
2019
2019
2018
CREDITS
VIDEOS
Muriel are an international sketch trio comprised of multi-award winning comedians/actors/writers Janine Harouni, Sally O’Leary and Meg Salter. The trio met while training at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, whose notable alumni include Aisling Bea, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Brian Cox. Shortly after graduating, they began making online sketches which amassed millions of views and featured in dozens of international publications. Their most recent videos were made in collaboration with BBC Studios and remain some of BBC Three's most viewed and engaged-with sketches to date.
Their critically-acclaimed debut show Bad Master enjoyed a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and two sold out runs at the Soho Theatre.
So You Think You're Funny Sketch Award
Leicester Square Sketch Off Competition
‘Smack the Pony rides again…If live sketch comedy is dying Muriel has given it the kiss of life’
’Spark and charisma…they just have that special something’
‘Telegenic and versatile…the new Smack the Pony’
‘Muriel are taking the social media platform by storm’
MURIEL
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