1. Laura Madalene Solon was born on April 1979 and is an English actress, comedian, screenwriter, and winner of the 2005 Perrier Comedy Award.
13 Facts About Laura Solon
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Laura Solon was the second woman to win as a solo performer, after Jenny Eclair in 1995.
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Laura Solon attended Downe House School followed by Worcester College, Oxford where she received a scholarship to read English and started writing and performing in the Oxford Revue.
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The first series of Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking, a sketch and character comedy series, ran on BBC Radio 4 in January and February 2007.
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Laura Solon recorded a BBC sitcom pilot from the creators of People Like Us, featuring Man Stroke Woman's Daisy Haggard, called Great News.
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Laura Solon was seen in a sketch show for ITV2 Laura, Ben and Him with Marek Larwood and Ben Willbond.
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Laura Solon was part of Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder, shown on ITV1.
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Laura Solon's award-winning 2010 short film Tooty's Wedding, which Solon co-wrote with Ben Willbond, was screened as part of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
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In 2011 Laura Solon was one of the players in the BBC Two improvisational show Fast and Loose, hosted by Hugh Dennis.
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Laura Solon has adapted comedy film screenplays for movies such as Office Christmas Party, and has had original screenplays optioned by Bluegrass Films.
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Laura Solon has written episodes for the fifth and sixth seasons of Hot in Cleveland.
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The title is a holdover from an entirely different show that Laura Solon had planned to perform with a male partner.
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Laura Solon plays eight different characters in the show, which consists of sketches of varying lengths, including:.