Celia Pacquola

Celia Pacquola (born 12 February 1983 in Yarra Glen) is an Australian comedian, writer, presenter and actress who performs predominantly in Australia and the United Kingdom. She grew up in Christmas Hills, Victoria, the third child with two older sisters, and is a descendant of the Australian administrator and artist John Rae. She began doing stand-up comedy in 2006.

Pacquola has written for and performed in Good News Week and Laid, and has made acting appearances in the ABC series Utopia and The Beautiful Lie, winning an AACTA Award for best guest or supporting actress in a television drama. In 2016 she and Luke McGregor wrote and performed in Rosehaven, which won the 2017 AWGIE Award for Best Comedy script. In 2020 she won the seventeenth season of Dancing with the Stars Australia, donating her prize to the Safe Steps Family Violence and Support Centre. From 2023 she hosts a revival of Thank God You're Here on Network 10.

She has written and performed live shows since 2007. Her 2009 show Am I Strange? was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where it won Best Comedy and the Critics Award for Best Australian Act. In 2018 she won the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer for her show All Talk, which was also nominated for Best Comedy Release at the 2020 ARIA Music Awards. Her first movie role was in the 2018 New Zealand romantic comedy The Breaker Upperers. Pacquola talks openly about her anxiety and depression, and gave birth to her first child, with partner Dara Munnis, in 2022.