Lucy Donna Porter

Lucy Donna Porter (born 27 January 1973) is an English actress, writer, presenter, and comedian. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival, and many clubs around Britain, and is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 panel shows including The News Quiz, Quote... Unquote, and The Personality Test. After obtaining a degree in English literature from the University of Manchester, she worked as a journalist on the Big Issue in The North and began performing stand-up comedy while working as a researcher for Granada Television on programmes such as The Mrs Merton Show.

As an actress, Porter made brief appearances in Life's a Pitch and Absolute Power, and her first high-profile acting role was alongside Christian Slater in the stage version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004, reprising her role for the 2005 London production. She made regular appearances on Broken News as Claudia Van Sant, was one of the writers for all nine series of Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections, and starred in The Powder Room alongside Julia Morris and Gina Yashere. She has appeared on panel shows including Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and Mock the Week, and in 2009 achieved a record-breaking score of 35 on Celebrity Mastermind with Steve Martin as her specialist subject.

In May 2007 Porter became host of a Guardian podcast, Many Questions, and later The Heckle. She wrote her debut stage play, The Fair Intellectual Club, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2014 and which she developed into a BBC Radio 4 comedy series of the same name. She has appeared on three episodes of QI, launched the quiz and game-show podcast Fingers On Buzzers with professional quizzer Jenny Ryan in 2018, and created Screaming with Laughter, an afternoon mother-and-baby comedy club. Porter married fellow comedian Justin Edwards at the end of 2009.