Olga Alfredovna Koch

Olga Koch (born Olga Alfredovna Koch on 1 September 1992 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian-British stand-up comedian, writer, and actress. She was born one year after the collapse of the Soviet Union; her father, Alfred Koch, was head of the State Committee for State Property Management of the Russian Federation from 1996 to 1997 under President Boris Yeltsin. When she was 13, her family moved to the UK and settled in Surrey, where she attended The American School in England.

After school, Koch moved to the US to study computer science at New York University, where she also trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. She returned to the UK in 2014 and earned a Master's degree in the Social Science of the Internet from Keble College, Oxford, specialising in parasocial relationships, before continuing her comedy training in London at Soho Theatre and The Free Association. By 2026 she was studying for a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction at University College London.

Koch first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2016 in the show Me, Me, Me, and in 2018 she was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut hour, Fight. She has appeared on The Now Show, Mock the Week, Richard Osman's House of Games, QI, and Live at the Apollo. Her BBC Radio 4 show Olga Koch: Fight won the Best Radio Comedy category at the 2022 WGGB Writers' Guild Awards. Since 2024 she has co-hosted the comedy podcast Glue Factory, and in February 2026 her show Fat Tom Cruise premiered at Soho Theatre London.