TWO years ago Anna Morris got the shock of her life when she became an overnight comic sensation.

After uploading a video to YouTube of self-devised ‘bridezilla’ character Georgina she was spotted by a top agency and catapulted to success.

She appeared alongside Hugh Dennis in Outnumbered as Eastern European receptionist Timaeia, before landing a starring role in ITV series Bad Bridesmaid this summer and taking her solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Now the Chandler’s Ford actress talks social media, ‘making it’, and sneaky sisters.

“I never thought this would happen. I ended up working in TV behind the camera all through my twenties,” Anna said.

“I couldn't afford drama school and didn't feel confident enough to do comedy gigs, so I just got a job in TV as a runner at Nickelodeon. I worked my way up to assistant producer level, and I even worked on The Paul O'Grady Show.

“I wrote scripts when I could to keep up with my comedy passion, but I never thought I would take a u-turn and end up here.”

Bad Bridesmaid sees various comedians spend four days undercover on a real hen weekend, convincing the party they are the new addition to the wedding in order to win a luxury honeymoon.

Anna opened the series as Francesca, and closed it earlier last month as Daisy.

The 34-year-old says she always gravitated to comedy roles, and found her passion for drama whilst at Barton Peveril College, in Eastleigh.

“At school we didn't have much time to do drama,” she said.

“When I got to Barton Peveril I chose theatre studies and we had a small class with a brilliant teacher, who was always encouraging and supportive.

“It was a very special time, but also a very sad time. There were about 13 of us in class and we lost one. Our dear friend Chris Nesbitt-Bell was killed in a car accident when we were 17. We were absolutely devastated.

“Chris was a naturally brilliant comic actor, and we often worked together. Our class became closer after we lost him, and it made me more determined to keep going.”

Anna said she realised she could write whilst at college, and was cast as Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest at The Point theatre, in Eastleigh.

“That was a brilliant first step into comedy acting,” she said.

In 2009 she joined forces with actress Beth Vyse for London gigs, and in June 2012 posted her first videos to YouTube as bad bridesmaid Georgina.

The series of six stacked up over 40,000 hits each.

But it was only when her sister, Thornden School teacher Kate Locke, sent the videos to Troika, which represents the likes of Miranda Hart, that she scooped a contract.

“She sent them my first video and told them to sign me. Within three weeks I was in their office, and then they did.

“Bad Bridesmaid was by far the biggest and scariest thing I've ever done. It was actually the first proper thing I ever filmed and it was a baptism of fire - three cameras, a huge crew and being undercover as a fake person for four days for each character!”

Until four months ago Anna was still working full-time in advertising, but now has given up in pursuit of her acting career.

She said she would recommend using the Internet as a launch-pad.

“It's a brilliant idea, especially if you want to do comedy, or even singing.

“It's a quick way of getting your stuff seen, and a good thing to send to agents. People are so busy these days they don't have time sometimes to trek to a gig or wait around two hours to see someone do 10 minutes.

“But they do have time to click on a link. So if you film something make it really clear in the first 10 seconds who you are and what you can do. If they are hooked, they will watch it and if they like it, they will share it.”

That is exactly what happened with Anna, and she said she still feels surprised to this day.

“I never ever dreamt it would get more than a few hundred hits, if I was lucky. I shared it on Facebook and Twitter and suddenly it was on the Huffington Post, AOL, Time Out, Heat online. Overnight it had 30,000 hits and it went up and up.

“I was utterly shocked!”