Tegan Higginbotham

Tegan Marie Higginbotham (born 1987 or 1988) is an Australian comedian, writer, and actress. She was born in Dandenong, Victoria, and attended Dandenong Primary School and Dandenong High School. Her first love was acting, until she discovered comedy in her late teens, and she performed her first comedy gig at the age of 17.

Higginbotham has performed at every Melbourne International Comedy Festival since becoming a National Finalist at the festival's Class Clowns comedy competition in 2005. She began her comedy career performing wild fast-paced sketch shows with fellow comedians Rob Lloyd and Adam McKenzie as the trio 'The Hounds', which later morphed into 'Watson', without Lloyd. At the age of 21, she began performing solo with her debut comedy show Million Dollar Tegan, nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2012.

In 2016, Higginbotham was a regular cast member for the Australian version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. She joined Nicole Livingstone and Amberley Lobo as co-host and regular panellist on the sports comedy panel show Sideliners which premiered on ABC TV on 30 June 2017. In March 2024, she joined Triple M's Marty Sheargold Show as executive producer, replacing Matt Thomson. She contributes regularly as a sports columnist for The Age, and she married Paul Verhoeven in a civil ceremony in Paris in July 2019.