Education
University of Manchester.
University of Manchester.
Mackichan was one of the writers and stars of the Channel 4 comedy series Smack the Pony and has appeared in a number of Chris Morris comedy series such as On The Hour, The Day Today and Brass Eye. She also appeared in the sitcoms Beast and Bedtime, and was a regular performer in Knowing Maine, Knowing You.. with Alan Partridge and The Mary Whitehouse Experience. She appeared in several of The Comic Strip Presents.. films in the early 1990s, and appeared in the 1995 comedy Glam Metal Detectives.
In 2009, she appeared as Jane Thomason, the news producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Taking the Flak.
She portrayed Cherie Blair in the Channel 4 satirical drama A Very Social Secretary, appeared in Channel 4 sitcom Nathan Barley as the "preposterous voice" of a thinly-veiled Annie Lennox parody. She portrayed a nightmarish British Broadcasting Corporation news presenter, Louise Marlowe, in series 4 of the Sarah Jane Adventures in 2010.
In film, Mackichan played Victoria Lender in 1998"s The Borrowers and teamed up with her former Smack the Pony co-stars for the 2004 film Gladiatress. Also in 1998 she appeared in the British Broadcasting Corporation television mini-series of Dickens" novel Our Mutual Friend as Mrs Veneering, social-climber and nouveau-riche who with her equally ambitious husband wears her acquaintances like so much jewelry, to impress others
On stage, she appeared with Matt Di Angelo and David Haig in the Joe Orton black farce Loot.
In July 2011 Mackichan performed alongside Julian Barratt in Nikolai Gogol"s comedy The Government Inspector at the Young Vic Theatre, London. Later in 2011 she played the part of Frances in April de Angelis" play "Jumpy" at the Royal Court Theatre, regularly bringing the house down with her clumsily erotic burlesque solo in Scene Ten. Since 2013, Mackichan has starred in Toast of London as Steven Toast"s (Matt Berry) quirky agent Jane Plough.
Mackichan"s own British Broadcasting Corporation Radio show, Doon Your Way, was broadcast in 1996.
She has narrated several television series including The Honey Trap and Bank of Mum and Dad. She has also voiced characters in several animated series including Bob and Margaret, Stressed Eric, Don"t Eat the Neighbours and Bromwell High.
She fronted a television ad campaign for Hallmark in the United Kingdom, and appeared alongside Darren Boyd as a married couple for a series of Direct Lincolnshire insurance television ads in 2012. She was a contestant in the 2003 British Broadcasting Corporation charity singing contest, Comic Relief does Fame Academy, in which she came fourth.
She has appeared twice on the British Broadcasting Corporation panel show QI - Series C episode 2 "Cummingtonite" (2005) and Series East episode 11 "Endings" (2007).
In 2013, Mackichan played Flavia, a recurring character, in the Independent Television comedy Plebs.
