Sindhu Vee

Sindhu Venkatanarayanan (born June 1969) is an Indian stand-up comedian who lives and performs in the UK under the name of Sindhu Vee. She was born in India, the daughter of a civil servant father and teacher mother,[2] and has lived in Delhi, Lucknow and the Philippines. She has studied at the universities of Delhi, Oxford, Chicago and McGill,[3] and worked in banking as a "high-flying bonds tradeswoman" in London.[4]

Sindhu Vee
Vee in 2017
BornJune 1969 (age 51)[1]
MediumStand-up, radio, television
EducationUniversity of Delhi
University of Oxford
McGill University
University of Chicago
Years active2012–present
WebsiteOfficial website

She currently lives in London with her Danish husband, a financier,[2] and three children.[5][4]

She started performing stand-up comedy in 2012 and has performed on stage in the UK, India, and the United States.[6] 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 on BBC One, QI on BBC Two and Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled for Dave.[7] 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.[8] She has also appeared in the second season of the Netflix series Sex Education[9] as Olivia's mother (series 2).

References
  1. "Sindhu VENKATANARAYANAN". companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  2. "Have you heard the one about the former model and investment banker who became a stand-up because she was bored?". HeraldScotland.
  3. "Sindhu Vee". Desi Comedy Fest.
  4. Dessau, Bruce (11 December 2018). "Sindhu Vee on how she was saved by stand-up comedy". www.standard.co.uk.
  5. "BBC Comedy of the Week: Meet Sindhu Vee". BBC.
  6. "Sindhu Vee - Phil McIntyre". Phil McIntyre.
  7. "Alan Davies: As Yet untitled". British Comedy Guide.
  8. "BBC Comedy of the Week". BBC.
  9. Sex Education (TV Series 2019– ) - Full Cast & Crew, retrieved 4 February 2020
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