Nuno Markl

Nuno Frederico Correia da Silva Lobato Markl (born 21 July 1971), known as Nuno Markl, is a Portuguese comedian, writer, radio host, television host, voice actor and screenwriter. He was born in Lisbon. At age 10 he already simulated radio broadcasts at home, and in the late 80s he started working at a pirate radio station, A Voz de Benfica. He enrolled at CENJOR's journalism course in 1990 and worked as a journalist on Correio da Manha Radio (1991-1993) and later on Radio Comercial (1993-1997). Thanks to his work he was invited to enter the Producoes Ficticias creative agency in 1995.

Markl is well known in Portugal for his radio series O Homem Que Mordeu o Cao, which started in 1997 when he joined Pedro Ribeiro, Jose Carlos Malato and Ana Lamy for the morning show at Radio Comercial. The radio series later spawned a TV show and three books. Since October 2008 he has worked for Antena 3. Upon joining Producoes Ficticias, he wrote sketches for shows including Herman Zap, Herman Enciclopedia, Herman 98, Herman 99 and Herman SIC.

Nuno Markl debuted his television hosting career in 2001, co-hosting Sem Filtro on RTP1 alongside Rita Mendes and Gaspar Borges. On SIC Radical he had a television show with Fernando Alvim, O Perfeito Anormal, which launched the comedy troupe Gato Fedorento. He has performed voice acting for the Portuguese versions of films, voicing Spike in Flushed Away, Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie. On 3 September 2010 he married the radio and television show host Ana Galvao, with whom he has a son, Pedro, born on 7 June 2009, and in 2016 they announced their separation.