Emerald Fennell has won rave reviews for her scriptwriting after taking over from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Move over Phoebe Waller-Bridge, there’s another devilishly funny actor-writer in town.

The first series of Killing Eve, the female-led assassin thriller written by Waller-Bridge, 33, was the big winner at the Baftas on Sunday with three awards.

However, she handed scriptwriting duties for the second series to one of her closest friends, Emerald Fennell, best known for playing the nurse Patsy Mount in Call the Midwife.

Emerald Fennell is also an actress and plays Camilla Parker Bowles in The Crown SPLASH NEWS

Fennell, 33, was educated at Marlborough College and read English at Oxford University. She has been cast as Camilla Parker Bowles in the forthcoming series of Netflix’s royal saga The Crown, in addition to being an accomplished novelist and screenwriter.

Thanks to the success of Killing Eve and Fleabag, the BBC comedy she both created