Susan Elizabeth Perkins (born 22 September 1969) is an English actress, broadcaster, comedian, presenter and writer.

The duo began to gain success and were short-listed for the Daily Express Best Newcomers award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993.

In January 2015, Giedroyc and Perkins began hosting their own daytime chat show on ITV called Mel and Sue.

[10] In 2002, Perkins appeared on the second UK series of Celebrity Big Brother in aid of four charities, Centrepoint, National Missing Persons Helpline, Rethink and Samaritans.

[13] In the same year, Perkins also provided additional written material for BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.

Perkins has appeared on several BBC shows including Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, QI, Room 101, Celebrity Weakest Link, Question Time and Newsnight.

She has made appearances as a field reporter for Armando Iannucci vehicle The Saturday Night Armistice.

Perkins hosted the second series of Good Evening, Rockall, a short-lived, news-oriented panel game shown on BBC Choice.

The series focused on spending a week eating the equivalent of a wealthy Edwardian couple's food, whilst wearing period clothing.

During the series, a group of eight celebrities attempted (until eliminated) to learn to conduct orchestral, choral and operatic music.

In September 2016, Love Productions announced that a three-year deal had been agreed to broadcast the show on Channel 4 instead of the BBC from 2017.

During that broadcast she interviewed Nile Rodgers, a member of the American disco-pop music group Chic.

In 2011, Perkins featured in the BBC travel adventure show World's Most Dangerous Roads: Alaska.

[29] She then appeared with Liza Tarbuck in Series 2 Episode 2 of World's Most Dangerous Roads: Ho Chi Minh Trail, shown in 2012, driving in Vietnam and Laos.

[33] Perkins was a team captain on the second and third series of What the Dickens?, hosted by Sandi Toksvig on Sky Arts.

She co-presented The Big Spell, a weekly game show for Sky1 alongside Joe Lycett and Moira Stuart.

Following her success in Maestro in 2008, Perkins guest-conducted the London Gay Symphony Orchestra on 11 October 2009, at St Anne's Church Garden in Soho.

She conducted two pieces, the Simpsons Theme by Danny Elfman, and the William Tell Overture by Rossini, the latter for the first time.

Perkins presented a Radio 4 documentary on the Lake District's competition the "World's Biggest Liar", which she won.

[46] In December 2008, she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.

[47] Perkins was also chair of the Radio 4 panel game Dilemma, in which four humorous guests discussed moral conundrums she provided for them.

[2] In April 2015, Perkins was the victim of online harassment on Twitter after oddsmakers made her the favourite to fill the vacancy on the BBC's Top Gear programme left by the departure of Jeremy Clarkson, despite Perkins saying that rumours about her imminent appointment to the show were "fabricated".