1. Lucy Donna Porter was born on 27 January 1973 and is an English actress, writer, presenter and comedian.
26 Facts About Lucy Porter
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Lucy Porter has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain.
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Lucy Porter is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel shows, including Quote.
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Lucy Porter began to perform stand-up comedy whilst working as a researcher for Granada Television, on programmes such as The Mrs Merton Show.
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Lucy Porter presented a TV commercial for mobile phone company One2One during the year 2000.
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Lucy Porter reprised her role of a nurse for the 2005 London production.
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Lucy Porter has been one of the writers for all nine series of Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections, appearing as a special guest performer in many editions.
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Lucy Porter starred in The Powder Room alongside Julia Morris and Gina Yashere, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
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Lucy Porter wrote the scripts for two series of BBC Three's Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife.
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Lucy Porter has appeared on several panel shows, including the first episode of Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive.
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Lucy Porter appeared on satirical news quiz show Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Mock the Week.
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In May 2007, Lucy Porter became host of a The Guardian podcast, Many Questions and more recently The Heckle.
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In June 2007, Lucy Porter came second in a celebrity edition of The Weakest Link.
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Lucy Porter appeared in 2007 on ITV2's Comedy Cuts, a programme showcasing the best of the British stand-up comedy circuit.
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Lucy Porter has recorded her stand-up show The Good Life for a DVD release by independent label Go Faster Stripe, and appeared in the 2008 and 2009 series of Mock the Week.
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In 2009, Lucy Porter took her show The Bare Necessities on a tour, playing 30 dates between February and June.
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In November 2009, Lucy Porter appeared at LIVEstock 2009: Friends of the Earth's comedy and music event at the Hammersmith Apollo in support of the green campaign group's Food Chain Campaign for planet-friendly farming.
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Lucy Porter presented FirstPlay, a weekly digital "magazine" for European customers on the PlayStation 3.
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In 2011, Lucy Porter competed alongside Ed Byrne in Pointless Celebrities, eventually losing in the penultimate round.
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Lucy Porter created Screaming with Laughter, an afternoon mother-and-baby comedy club.
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Lucy Porter developed this into a comedy series of the same name for BBC Radio 4, featuring much of the same cast and directed by Imrie.
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Lucy Porter has since expressed a desire to write more plays for the Festival in the future.
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In February 2017, Lucy Porter was a guest on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast.
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In March 2021, Lucy Porter chaired the Radio 4 panel game Just a Minute.
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Lucy Porter was the sixth guest host in the first series since the death of Nicholas Parsons, who had presented almost every episode of the programme since its creation in 1967.
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Lucy Porter was born in Croydon, south London, and attended Wallington High School for Girls.