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Sindhu Vee

Sindhu Vee
Vee in 2017
Born1969 (age 54–55)
New Delhi, India
MediumStand-up, radio, television
NationalityBritish
Education
Years active2012–present
Children3
WebsiteOfficial website

Sindhu Venkatanarayanan (born 1969)[1][2][3] is a British stand-up comedian and actress who performs under the name of Sindhu Vee.[4] She starred as Mrs. Phelps in the 2022 Netflix adaptation of Matilda the Musical.

Biography

Sindhu was born in 1969 in New Delhi, India into a Tamil family, the daughter of a civil servant father and a teacher mother.[5]

She has lived in Delhi, Lucknow, and the Philippines. She studied at the University of Delhi, the University of Oxford, the University of Chicago, and McGill University,[5][6] and worked in banking as a "high-flying bonds tradeswoman" in London.[7]

Vee lives in London with her Danish financier husband,[5] and their three children.[7][8]

Career

She started performing stand-up comedy in 2012 and has performed on stage in the UK, India, and the United States.[9] She 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.[citation needed]

Film and television

Vee has made television appearances on programmes including Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week, and Would I Lie To You?[10] on BBC One, Richard Osman's House of Games and QI on BBC Two, and Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled for Dave.[11] 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.[12]

She has also appeared on

References

  1. ^ Gibsone, Harriet (9 October 2021). "Sindhu Vee and her father go back in time: 'As a child, I was always copying him'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  2. ^ Banerjee, Rohan (26 November 2021). "Sindhu Vee on the comedy of offence: 'I should be able to joke about everyone'". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  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. ^ "Sindhu VENKATANARAYANAN". gov.uk. find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  5. ^ a b c 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. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Sindhu Vee". Desi Comedy Fest.
  7. ^ a b Dessau, Bruce (11 December 2018). "Sindhu Vee on how she was saved by stand-up comedy". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 15 November 2022.
  8. ^ "BBC Comedy of the Week: Meet Sindhu Vee". BBC.
  9. ^ "Sindhu Vee - Phil McIntyre". Phil McIntyre. Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  10. ^ Would I Lie to You? - Series 14: Episode 7, retrieved 16 February 2021
  11. ^ "Alan Davies: As Yet untitled". British Comedy Guide.
  12. ^ "BBC Comedy of the Week". BBC.
  13. ^ Sex Education (TV Series 2019– ) - Full Cast & Crew, retrieved 4 February 2020
  14. ^ "Cast announced for new BBC Three comedy Starstruck". bbc.com.
  15. ^ Ramachandran, Naman (1 April 2021). "Stephen Graham, Sindhu Vee, Andrea Riseborough Join 'Matilda' Cast". Variety. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhu_Vee