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| Name | Sandi Toksvig |
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| Imagesize | 180px |
| Caption | Toksvig performing in 2008. |
| Birth name | Sandra Birgitte Toksvig |
| Birth date | May 03, 1958 |
| Birth place | Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Occupation | Author, comedienne, presenter |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Spouse | Debbie Toksvig |
| Website |
Her television career has included presenting the children's series No. 73 (1982–1986) as an old woman called Ethel Davis, also presenting the Sandwich Quiz, The Saturday Starship, Motormouth and Gilbert's Fridge, and on factual programmes such as the archaeological Channel 4 series Time Team, and Island Race and The Talking Show, produced by Open Media for Channel 4. She has appeared as a panellist in shows such as Call My Bluff (here she was a team captain), I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, QI and Have I Got News for You. She appeared in the very first episode of Have I Got News For You in 1990. She is the current host of What the Dickens, a Sky Arts quiz show which has included other comediennes like Sue Perkins and Jackie Clune in the cast. 2010 - She is currently the Executive Producer of "Playhouse Live" for Sky Arts producing specially commissioned live drama for television and the host of BBC2's "Antiques Master"
In 1996, she narrated the "Dragons!" interactive CD-ROM, along with Harry Enfield. The software was primarily aimed at children and featured songs and poems about dragons, hence the title.
She is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 listeners, as the chair of The News Quiz, having replaced Simon Hoggart in September 2006. She continues to be the main presenter of the BBC Radio 4 travel programme Excess Baggage. For three years until December 2005 she presented a weekday lunchtime programme on London talk radio station LBC 97.3, featuring regular guests including Bonnie Langford, Alkarim Jivani, and Annie Caulfield.
In 2002, Toksvig and Dilly Keane co wrote a musical Big Night Out, at the Little Palace Theatre, written for the Watford Palace Theatre, in which they both appeared with Bonnie Langford. Toksvig and Elly Brewer wrote a Shakespeare deconstruction, The Pocket Dream, which Toksvig performed in at the Nottingham Playhouse. The pair also wrote the 1992 TV series The Big One, which also starred Toksvig. She has appeared in a number of stage plays, including Androcles and the Lion, Much Ado About Nothing and The Comedy of Errors.
She has written several fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults, starting in 1994 with Tales from the Norse's Mouth, a fiction tale for children. In 1995, she sailed around the coast of Britain with John McCarthy. In 2003, she published her travel biography, Gladys Reunited: A Personal American Journey, about her travels in the USA retracing her childhood. She writes regular columns for Good Housekeeping, the Sunday Telegraph and "The Lady". In October 2008 she published Girls Are Best, a history book for girls. In 2009 her collected columns for the Sunday Telegraph were published in book form as The Chain of Curiosity.
In February 2006 she joked that, as a result of being Danish and having studied Muslim law, in the light of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, she had never been so sought-after.
She appears in Doctor Who audio drama Red by Big Finish Productions which was released in August 2006.
In December 2006, she hosted and sang at the London Gay Men's Chorus' sold out Christmas Show, Make the Yuletide Gay at the Barbican Centre in London.
In 2007 she was named Political Humorist of the Year at the Channel 4 Political Awards and Radio Broadcaster of the Year by the Broadcasting Press Guild. Over Christmas and New Year 2007/8 she played the narrator in the pantomime Cinderella at the Old Vic Theatre. In 2008 she was named Broadcaster of the Year at the Stonewall Awards. In 2009 she received the Voice of the Viewer and Listener Award for Individual Contribution to Radio. In 2010 she was awarded an honorary PhD by the University of Portsmouth.
In 2003 she stood as a candidate in the election for the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, supporting a campaign against student fees. She was defeated in the first round of voting, achieving 1179 first-place votes out of about 8000 cast. The election was won by Chris Patten.
She is a lesbian and mother of three children, two daughters (born 1988 and 1990) and a son (born 1994). The children were carried and borne by her then partner Peta Stewart, and were conceived through artificial insemination by donor Christopher Lloyd-Pack.
In 1994 charity Save the Children dropped her services as compere of its 75th-anniversary celebrations after she came out, the charity later apologised. She currently lives in Surrey with her civil partner, psychotherapist Debbie Toksvig.
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