Sindhu Vee

Sindhu Venkatanarayanan (born 19 June 1969) is an Indian stand-up comedian who lives and performs in the United Kingdom under the name of Sindhu Vee.

Sindhu Vee
Vee
Born (1969-06-19) June 19, 1969[1][2]
New Delhi, India[3]
MediumStand-up, radio, television
Education
Years active2012–present
Children3
WebsiteOfficial website

Early life

She was born in New Delhi, India, the daughter of a civil servant father and teacher mother,[4] and has lived in Delhi, Lucknow and the Philippines. She has studied at the University of Delhi, University of Oxford, University of Chicago and McGill University,[5] and worked in banking as a "high-flying bonds tradeswoman" in London.[6]

She lives in London with her Danish husband, a financier,[4] and three children.[7][6]

Career

She started performing stand-up comedy in 2012 and has performed on stage in the UK, India, and the United States.[8] She has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe each year between 2013 and 2017. Vee was nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award in 2016, was second in the 2017 Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year and joint third in the 2017 NATYS: New Acts of the Year Show.

She has made television appearances on programmes including Have I Got News For You ‘’Mock the Week’’ and Would I Lie To You?[9] on BBC One, Richard Osman's House of Games and QI on BBC Two and Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled for Dave.[10] As of 2018 she is the host of the BBC Radio 4 Comedy of the Week podcast, and she has also appeared on Quote... Unquote and The Unbelievable Truth.[11] She has also appeared in the second season of the Netflix series Sex Education[12] as Olivia's mother. In 2021, Vee appeared in Rose Matafeo's BBC series 'Starstruck'.[13]

References
  1. Sindhu Vee [@sindhuvfunny] (19 June 2016). "My bday is the day I can really test whether I've brought them up right. Not bad. ❤️" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. "Sindhu VENKATANARAYANAN". companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  3. Jamieson, Teddy (5 August 2018). "Comedian Sindhu Vee on her Indian mum, her bad girl school days, modelling and her life as an investment banker". The Herald. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  4. Jamieson, Teddy (5 August 2018). "Have you heard the one about the former model and investment banker who became a stand-up because she was bored?". HeraldScotland.
  5. "Sindhu Vee". Desi Comedy Fest.
  6. Dessau, Bruce (11 December 2018). "Sindhu Vee on how she was saved by stand-up comedy". Evening Standard.
  7. "BBC Comedy of the Week: Meet Sindhu Vee". BBC.
  8. "Sindhu Vee - Phil McIntyre". Phil McIntyre.
  9. Would I Lie to You? - Series 14: Episode 7, retrieved 16 February 2021
  10. "Alan Davies: As Yet untitled". British Comedy Guide.
  11. "BBC Comedy of the Week". BBC.
  12. Sex Education (TV Series 2019– ) - Full Cast & Crew, retrieved 4 February 2020
  13. "Cast announced for new BBC Three comedy Starstruck". bbc.com.
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