Nina Margarita Conti

Nina Conti (born Nina Margarita Conti, 1975) is a British actress, comedian, and ventriloquist. She was born and grew up in Hampstead, London, the daughter of actors Tom Conti and Kara Wilson. She attended King Alfred School, London, and graduated with a first-class honours degree in philosophy from the University of East Anglia in 1995. She was inspired and mentored by experimental theatre director Ken Campbell, who devised the ventriloquist play Let Me Out!!! for her, which she took to the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Conti has worked as an actress since 1996, appearing in productions of The Warp and as a member of The Royal Shakespeare Company in 2000/01. She has appeared in television shows including Black Books, Holby City, and Single, and she and her character Monkey portrayed a morning weather team in Christopher Guest's 2006 film For Your Consideration. In 2013, she portrayed Bea Chadwick in Christopher Guest's HBO mockumentary Family Tree, and her 2012 film Her Master's Voice earned a BAFTA nomination and a Grierson Award.

In 2002, Conti won the BBC New Comedy Awards. She took her first solo full-length show, Complete and Utter Conti, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007, and in 2008 won the Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, tying with Kristen Schaal. She introduced new puppets including "Granny," which she inherited from Ken Campbell, and has appeared on QI, Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard's Good News, and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. She is scheduled to appear in Series 22 of Taskmaster.