Sandi Toksvig is a comedian and radio
presenter famous in the United Kingdom. She was once
part of The Comedy Store Players, a British improvisational
comedy team which performs at The Comedy Store.
Toksvig's father was a foreign reporter for a Danish
television channel, and she spent most of her youth
abroad (including the US). She studied law and anthropology
at Girton College, Cambridge, but ended up getting
into drama. She wrote and performed in the first all-woman
show at the Cambridge Footlights, and moved via children's
television into the comedy circuit.
Toksvig has appeared as a panelist in television
shows such as Call My Bluff, and Whose Line Is It Anyway?,
and radio shows such as I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
and The News Quiz. She frequently presents the travel-orientated
radio show Excess Baggage and also presents a daily
programme on London's LBC radio.
She supports the Liberal Democrats and has appeared
on BBC Question Time.
She and her ex-partner, Peta, are mothers to three
children. |
