Sindhu Vee

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Sindhu Vee
Born1969 (age 5455)
New Delhi, India
MediumStand-up, radio, television
NationalityBritish
Education
Years active2012–present
Children3
Website Official website

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

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Early life

She was born in New Delhi, India, 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.

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]

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