When Catherine Bohart dreamt of becoming an actor as a child, she looked to the biggest stars in the industry to see what their futures might hold. As a young girl with red hair living in the Nineties, naturally she assumed she’d one day be Kate Winslet. “I was pretty shocked to find I wasn’t immediately,” the Irish comedian explains, incredibly deadpan. “Still a pretty harrowing realisation on a daily basis, I’ll be honest with you.”
When Bohart uses the word “honest”, she really means it. She moved to London to study to be an actor, but after graduating quickly “fell into stand-up” in 2014 where she found she could say what she wanted. Since then, she’s spoken about her sexuality, religion and mental health on stage. “I’m the bisexual daughter of a Catholic deacon and I have OCD,” she declared in her 2018 debut solo show Immaculate, during which she spoke about being hospitalised for four months because of her mental health problems. If you want to see a comic bare their soul on stage, you go and see Bohart.
