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Sandi Toksvig

OBE
Toksvig in 2013
Toksvig in 2013
BornSandra Birgitte Toksvig
(1958-05-03) 3 May 1958 (age 66)
Copenhagen, Denmark
OccupationAuthor, presenter, writer, politician, comedian
Citizenship
EducationTormead School
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge
Spouse
Debbie Toksvig
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(m. 2007)​
Children3
Parents

Sandra Birgitte Toksvig OBE (/ˈtɒksvɪɡ/, Danish pronunciation: [ˈsænti ˈtsʰʌksˌviˀ]; born 3 May 1958)[1] is a British-Danish writer, comedian, broadcaster, actor, and producer on British radio, stage, and television. She is also a political activist, having co-founded the Women's Equality Party in 2015. She has written plays, novels, and books for children. In 1994, she came out as a lesbian.[2]

In 2016, Toksvig took over from Stephen Fry as host of the BBC television quiz show QI, having previously spent ten years hosting The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4. From 2017-2020 she was co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off, alongside comedian Noel Fielding. In 2020, she stepped down and will be replaced by Matt Lucas.[3][4]

Toksvig is the president of the Women of the Year Lunch.

Early life

Toksvig was born in Denmark. Her father, Claus Toksvig, was a Danish journalist, broadcaster, and foreign correspondent, so Toksvig spent most of her youth outside Denmark, mostly in New York City. Her mother, Julie Anne Toksvig (née Brett), is British.[5] She has an older brother, Nick, who is a journalist, and a younger sister, Jenifer, a librettist, who was born when Sandi was 12. When Sandi was 24, she was appointed Jenifer's legal guardian.[6][7] In 1969, her father covered the landing of the first man on the moon from mission control. Toksvig was holding the hand of Neil Armstrong's secretary during the landing.[8] She attended Tormead School, an independent girls' school near Guildford, when her father was based in London. Her first job, at the age of 18, was a position as a follow spot operator for the musical Jesus Christ Superstar.[9][10]

She read law, archaeology and anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree and receiving two prizes for outstanding achievement (The Raemakers and the Theresa Montefiore Awards).[11] One of her law supervisors was Lord Denning.[12]

Career

When I see comedian—and ‘comedienne’, of course I hate it—I think ‘Oh, really?’ because I think of myself as a writer and broadcaster. Sometimes it's funny but I’ve just done a piece for Radio 3 all about Mary Wollstonecraft, and there's not a joke in it.

The Times[13]

Toksvig performing in 2008

Beginnings

Toksvig began her comedy career at Girton, where she wrote and performed in the first all-woman show at the Footlights. She was there at the same time as fellow members Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, and Emma Thompson, and wrote additional material for the Perrier award-winning Footlights Revue. She was also a member of the university's Light Entertainment Society.

She started her television career on children's series, presenting No. 73 (1982–1986), the Sandwich Quiz,[14] The Saturday Starship, Motormouth, Gilbert's Fridge, for Television South, and factual programmes such as Island Race and The Talking Show, produced by Open Media for Channel 4. She also appeared as a guest presenter in 2000 on Time Team at a dig in York (season 7 episode 3).

Comedy

In the comedy circuit, Toksvig performed at the first night of the Comedy Store in London, and was once part of their Players, an improvisational comedy team.[15]

In television, she appeared as a panellist in comedy shows such as Call My Bluff (a regular as a team captain), Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, QI, and Have I Got News for You, where she appeared on the first episode in 1990.[16] She was also the host of What the Dickens, a Sky Arts quiz show.

On radio, she is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 listeners, having appeared on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, The Unbelievable Truth, and as the chair of The News Quiz, where she replaced Simon Hoggart in September 2006, but left in June 2015 in order to enter politics to champion women's rights. Her final show was first broadcast on 26 June 2015. She presented Radio 4's travel programme Excess Baggage until it was axed in 2012. [17]

Drama and factual

In 1993, Toksvig wrote a musical, Big Night Out at the Little Sands Picture Palace, for Nottingham Playhouse, co-starring with Anita Dobson and Una Stubbs. In 2002, it was re-written, with Dilly Keane, for the Watford Palace Theatre, in which they appeared with Bonnie Langford.[18] Toksvig and Elly Brewer wrote a Shakespeare deconstruction, The Pocket Dream, which Toksvig performed at the Nottingham Playhouse and which transferred to the West End for a short run. The pair also wrote the 1992 TV series The Big One, in which she also starred. She has appeared in a number of stage plays, including Androcles and the Lion, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Comedy of Errors.

In 1996, she narrated the Dragons! interactive CD-ROM published by Oxford University Press and developed by Inner Workings, along with Harry Enfield.[19] The software was primarily aimed at children and featured songs and poems about dragons. She also narrated the Winnie the Witch CD-ROM. She appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama Red by Big Finish Productions, released in August 2006. In December 2006, she hosted and sang at the London Gay Men's Chorus sold-out Christmas show, Make the Yuletide Gay, at the Barbican Centre.[20] Over Christmas and New Year 2007/2008, she narrated the pantomime Cinderella at the Old Vic Theatre. In October 2011, she narrated the new musical Soho Cinders at the Queen's Theatre, London. In 2011 she hosted a second season of BBC Two's Antiques Master.

Toksvig wrote a play entitled Bully Boy which focused on post-traumatic stress among British servicemen. The play premièred at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton in May 2011, and starred Anthony Andrews.[21] The play then launched the debut season of St James Theatre in September 2012, the first new West End theatre to open in 30 years.[22]

In the 2013 Christmas Special of BBC's Call the Midwife, Toksvig made a cameo appearance as grumpy ward nurse Sister Gibbs.[23][24]

On 28 April 2015, it was announced that Toksvig would leave BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz in June at the end of the 28th series, which was scheduled to begin on 15 May of that year. She said: "I have decided it is time to move on and, of course, I feel sad but I think it's the right moment. The show is in great shape and, like a good house guest, you should always depart when people still wish you'd stay a bit longer." The BBC said Toksvig had made the "difficult decision" to leave in order "to embark on a new and exciting stage of her career".[25] On 30 April 2015, Toksvig announced that her decision to quit The News Quiz had been made in order to allow her to help set up a new political party named the Women's Equality Party.[26][27]

In November 2015, Toksvig was a guest of BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Her choices included Joe Nichols ("What's a Guy Gotta Do"), Gustav Winckler, The Weather Girls, Barbra Streisand, and Bonnie Langford. Her book choice was The Ashley Book of Knots, and her luxury item was an endless supply of the Daily Mail.[28]

Her most recent play Silver Lining opened at the Rose Theatre Kingston on 11 February 2017, before touring to Portsmouth, Oxford, Cambridge, Ipswich, Keswick, York, and Salford. It centres around five elderly ladies and a young carer in a retirement home which is about to be flooded by a storm. It stars Rachel Davies, Keziah Joseph, Maggie McCarthy, Joanna Monro, Sheila Reid, and Amanda Walker. Toksvig's son, Theo Toksvig-Stewart, made his professional stage debut in the play.[29]

On 11 June 2019, Toksvig appeared on former Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard's podcast. Notably, Toksvig states "Wikipedia is a marvelous idea and the idea is that it is a crowd sourced encyclopedia of knowledge, what a fantastic notion. But what's happening is that women are disappearing so 90% of Wikipedia's content is about men and their achievements and 9% is about women. 1% are still making up their mind. So that proportion is completely out of kilter and we desperately need to do something about it. Part of the problem is that it is edited by volunteers but there are about 350,000 "uber" volunteers that tend, no offence to them, to be the same kind of guy who has the time to sit and do it and doesn't have laundry to do and are actively editing women out. There are two issues: 1) women's achievements are not being inputted and 2) women are actively being edited out... I am intent on trying to change this if we can."[30]

During the COVID-19 lockdown period in 2020, Toksvig created and performed "Vox Tox", a YouTube mini-series, [31] from her home. These 10-minute sessions promoted the activities of women across the ages, being inspired by items from Toksvig's own library of books and biographies.

Writing

Toksvig has written more than twenty fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults, starting in 1994 with Tales from the Norse's Mouth, a fiction tale for children. In 1995, she sailed around the coast of Britain with John McCarthy, who had been held hostage in Beirut. In 2003, she published Gladys Reunited: A Personal American Journey, about her travels in the USA retracing her childhood. She writes regular columns for Good Housekeeping, the Sunday Telegraph and The Lady. In October 2008, she published Girls Are Best, a history book for girls.[32]

In 2009, her collected columns for The Sunday Telegraph were published in book form as The Chain of Curiosity. In 2012, she published her book, Valentine Grey, an historical novel set in the Boer War.[33] Her 2015 young adult book, Hitler's Canary[34] is a Holocaust story told by a boy named Bamse and his family. The characters are based on Toksvig's own father and grandmother; the heroism of the story closely resembles the story's own experiences during the war.[35] Her memoir "Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus" was published on October 29, 2019.

Television presenter

In 2012–13 Toksvig presented 1001 Things You Should Know for Channel 4 daytime. Toksvig began presenting the revival edition of the daytime game show Fifteen-to-One in April 2014.[36] It is an hour-long instead of the original half-hour edition presented by William G. Stewart. After two series had been broadcast, in June 2015, Channel 4 announced that a further three would be made, hosted by Toksvig.[37]

Toksvig took over from Stephen Fry as host of QI, making her "the first female presenter of a British mainstream TV comedy panel show", a fact she found extraordinary in 2016.[38] She hosted the first episode of the show's series "N", which was broadcast on 21 October 2016.[39]

On 16 March 2017 she was announced as the new co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off on Channel 4, alongside Noel Fielding. They replaced the previous hosts, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc. In January 2020, she announced she was leaving the show to focus on other work commitments.[4]

Politics and activism

Toksvig first came to wider public prominence in 1994 because the charity Save the Children dropped her services as compere of its 75th anniversary celebrations after she came out.[13] The decision led to a direct action protest by the Lesbian Avengers,[40] and the charity apologised.[41][42]

Toksvig supports the charity and pressure group Liberty, hosting its 2012 awards ceremony.[43] She was appointed president of the Women of the Year Lunch.[44] An atheist and humanist, Toksvig is a patron of Humanists UK.[45]

In October 2012, as the scale of the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal became apparent, and amid claims that during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, there was a culture within the BBC which tolerated sexual harassment, Toksvig stated that she was groped by a "famous individual" on air in the 1980s.[46][47] Toksvig said the allegations of inappropriate behaviour at the BBC "did not surprise me at all". In September 2018, as the BBC gender pay gap controversy continued to unfold, Toksvig reported that she was only paid 40% of what Fry, her predecessor, had received. Toksvig had earlier told the Radio Times it would be “absurd” if she did not receive the same salary as him for chairing QI.[48]

In 2003 she stood as a candidate in the election for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford, supporting a campaign against student fees.[49] She was defeated in the first round of voting, achieving 1,179 first-place votes out of about 8,000 cast.[50] The election was won by Chris Patten. Almost a decade later she succeeded Sheila Hancock as Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth.[51]

Toksvig's party-political sympathies have developed over the years. She was part of Red Wedge's comedy tour in the 1980s, which supported the Labour Party. By the 2004 elections, she was a high-profile celebrity supporter of the Liberal Democrats.[52][53] She has received some criticism for joking about the Tories in 2011 (they've "put the 'N' into cuts" to child benefit),[54] but has said Prime Minister Theresa May is "a good person".[38] She has also joked about UKIP leader Nigel Farage.[55] In 2012, she said in an interview that "I don't think there's a party that represents anything I believe in".[56]

Women's Equality Party

In April 2015, Toksvig chaired the first, informal, conference of a new political party, the Women's Equality Party,[57][58] and then left her job as presenter of The News Quiz to formally co-found it.[26][27] She later explained that she had decided that it was "not too late to fight the good fight, after all".[59] In September the same year she announced the dates for a comedy tour to raise funds for the party.[60][61] The party's full set of policies were launched at Conway Hall, 20 October 2015.[62][63]

Personal life

As an eleven-year-old, Toksvig was present with her father, a leading Danish foreign affairs journalist, at NASA Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas during the first Moon landing.[64][65] In an appearance on BBC 1 show The TV That Made Me, she said she held the hand of Neil Armstrong's nervous secretary to calm the woman down during the final moments. She also said she had a lifetime fear of children's television puppet Basil Brush, so she wrote a 2002 episode of The Basil Brush Show entitled "Molly Christmas".

I wouldn’t care if they came from Tesco. I don’t care about the blood thing. They call me Mummy and I earned it. We love each other. You can’t do better than that. Lots of families don’t.

Toksvig commenting on her children
in The Times[66]

Toksvig is the mother of two daughters (Megan and Jesse) and a son (Theo).[67][68][69] The children were carried by her partner, Peta Stewart, from whom she separated in 1997,[66] and were conceived through artificial insemination by donor Christopher Lloyd-Pack,[13] younger brother of the actor Roger Lloyd-Pack.[70][71]

It was having three young children that made her decide to come out, because, to the best of her knowledge, there were no out lesbians in British public life, and she did not want her children to grow up ashamed of having two mothers. Toksvig was warned she might never work again, and the family faced death threats and had to go into hiding.[2]

She lives on a houseboat in Wandsworth[72] with psychotherapist Debbie Toksvig,[67] whom she joined in a civil partnership in 2007.[73] They renewed their vows on 29 March 2014, the day same-sex marriage was introduced in England and Wales,[74] and in December 2014, their civil partnership was converted into a marriage.[75]

Toksvig became a British citizen in 2013.[76] She describes her "posh" accent as being the result of a deliberate attempt to copy the voice of Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter, after being ostracised at boarding school for having an American accent.[28]

In her late 50s, she lost a significant amount of weight on medical advice, and credits this with giving her the confidence to go back to television.[38]

Honours and awards

  • 1997 – The Grand Order of Water Rats Show Business Personality of the Year
  • 2007 – Political Humourist of the Year at the Channel 4 Political Awards[77] and 2007 – Radio Broadcaster of the Year by the Broadcasting Press Guild[78]
  • 2007 – Read it or Else Award from Coventry Inspiration Book Awards for Hitler's Canary
  • 2008 – Broadcaster of the Year at the Stonewall Awards
  • 2009 – Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for Individual Contribution to Radio
  • 2013 – Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for Excellence in Broadcasting (Roberts Radio Special Award)
  • 2017 – CoScan (Confederation of Scandinavian Societies) International Award[79]

National honours

Decorations and medals
Country Date Decoration Details
 United Kingdom 31 December 2013–Present Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Scholastic

University degrees
Location Date School Degree
 England Girton College, Cambridge First-class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Archaeology and Anthropology
Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships
Location Date School Position
 England 31 October 2012–2017 University of Portsmouth Chancellor [81]
 England 2012 – present Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge Honorary Fellowship[82]
 England 2016 – present Newnham College, Cambridge Honorary Fellowship[83]
 England 29 January 2019 – present Girton College, Cambridge Honorary Fellowship[84]
Honorary degrees
Location Date School Degree
 England 2010 University of Portsmouth Doctor of Letters (D.Litt)
 England 2012 York St John University Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) [85]
 England 20 July 2012 University of Surrey Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) [86]
 England 2016 University of Westminster Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) [87]
 England 17 July 2018 University of Leicester Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) [88]

Bibliography

Books for children

  • Toksvig, Sandi (2017). The End of the Sky. London: Doubleday Childrens. ISBN 978-0-857-53192-6.
  • Toksvig, Sandi (2015). A Slice of the Moon. London: Doubleday Childrens. ISBN 978-0-857-53191-9.
  • Toksvig, Sandi (2009). Girls Are Best. London: Red Fox. ISBN 978-1-86230-429-1.
  • Toksvig, Sandi (2008). The Littlest Viking. London: Yearling. ISBN 978-0-440-86830-9.
  • Toksvig, Sandi (2006). Hitlers Canary. Vlaardingen, Holland: Valerius uitgeverij. ISBN 90-78250-02-X. (Dutch translation)
  • Toksvig, Sandi (2005). Hitler's Canary. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-60889-6.
  • Toksvig, Sandi (2000). The Troublesome Tooth Fairy. Transworld. ISBN 0-552-54663-1.
  • Toksvig, Sandi (2000). Super-Saver Mouse to the Rescue. Transworld. ISBN 0-552-54541-4.
  • Toksvig, Sandi (1999). Super-Saver Mouse. Transworld. ISBN 0-552-54540-6.
  • Toksvig, Sandi (1998). If I Didn't Have Elbows. Deagosti. ISBN 1-84089-048-7.
  • Toksvig, Sandi (1997). Unusual Day. Transworld/Corgi. ISBN 0-552-54539-2.
  • Toksvig, Sandi (1994). Tales from the Norse's Mouth. BBC Books. ISBN 0-563-40358-6.

Books for adults

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New political party Co-founder of the Women's Equality Party
2015
With: Catherine Mayer 		Succeeded by
Sophie Walker
as leader
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Preceded by Host of Fifteen to One
2014 – present 		Succeeded by
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Preceded by Host of QI
2016 – present 		Succeeded by
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2006-2015 		Succeeded by
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