Celeste Barber
- Writer
Celeste Barber is an actress, writer, comedian and internet sensation. Hailed as the “Australian Queen of Comedy”, Celeste's original celebrity parody Instagram account has attracted over 9.7 million followers. In 2019 she was included in Variety Magazine’s prestigious ‘Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch’ Awards. Celeste currently has original projects in development with Fremantle Media and Easy Tiger.
Celeste’s one woman show; Celeste Barber Challenge Accepted! premiered in Sydney in June 2017 and was followed by sell-out seasons around the world. Her next world tour of Celeste Barber: Fine, Thanks was filmed at the iconic Sydney Opera House and released on Netflix in 2023. Celeste’s most recent tour, Celeste Barber: Backup Dancer began in 2024 to sellout shows in North America, Australia and New Zealand. She continued in 2025 in the UK, Europe and Dubai with massive audiences totaling over 50 cities and more than 120,000 tickets sold so far.
Celeste was a writer for the short film Late Night Angel Weenie Baby directed by Craig Anderson and Sydney Morning Herald web series Office Correctness.
She executive produced and starred in Wellmania (Fremantle Media), the Netflix series inspired by Brigid Delaney’s novel Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness. She also executive-produced and appeared in Embrace: Kids for SLA Films and Body Image Movement.
Celeste’s memoir; Challenge Accepted! was released in Australia in September 2018, with UK release following shortly after. Challenge Accepted! was shortlisted for the ABIA 2019 Biography Book of The Year. Her US version of the book was released in 2019 with foreign rights following in France, Germany, Russia and Poland.
Her second book, a children's book titled Celeste the Giraffe Loves to Laugh, was published in October 2019. Following this, she wrote Flamingo Celeste is Not like the Rest which was illustrated by Heath McKenzie and was shortlisted for the Picture Book Prize at the 2022 West Australian Young Readers' Book Awards.