Janey Godley is a Scottish stand-up comedian, actress, and writer.
She was born to Annie and Jim Currie, Godley was raised on Kenmore Street in Shettleston, a district in the East End of Glasgow.
Godley attended Eastbank Academy, but due to financial challenges, she left school at the age of 16 with no qualifications.
She began her stand-up career in 1994, Godley has starred in many tv shows including River City, Sam Delaney’s News Thing, The Alex Salmond Show, and Have I Got News for You and Traces. She appears in the film Wild Rose.
Based on her ability and her style of acting, she was nominated as “Best International Guest” by the New Zealand Comedy Guild in 2002, 2006, 2008, and 2009.
In 2020, Godley wrote and starred in a series of short films titled Alone, about a recently widowed housewife whose abusive husband has died of COVID-19, as part of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Scenes for Survival web series.
Godley was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and was being treated in a hospital in November 2021. She had a full hysterectomy in January 2022 and announced in June that she was cancer free.
Later on December 13, 2022, she announced that her cancer had returned and that she would need further chemotherapy.
Where in Glasgow does Janey Godley live?
Janey Godley lived in Shettleston, in the tough East End of Glasgow, Scotland.