Sindhu Vee

Sindhu was born in New Delhi, India as the daughter of a civil servant father and a teacher mother.{{Cite web|last=Jamieson|first=Teddy|date=5 August 2018|title=Have you heard the one about the former model and investment banker who became a stand-up because she was bored?|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/16391413.comedian-sindhu-vee-indian-mum-bad-girl-school-days-modelling-life-investment-banker/|url-status=live|website=HeraldScotland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503212139/https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/16391413.comedian-sindhu-vee-indian-mum-bad-girl-school-days-modelling-life-investment-banker/|archive-date=3 May 2022}} She has lived in Delhi, Lucknow and the Philippines. She studied at the University of Delhi, the University of Oxford, the University of Chicago and McGill University{{Cite web|url=http://www.desicomedyfest.com/sindhu-vee|title=Sindhu Vee|website=Desi Comedy Fest|language=en-US}} and worked in banking as a "high-flying bonds tradeswoman" in London, England.{{Cite web|last=Dessau|first=Bruce|date=11 December 2018|title=Sindhu Vee on how she was saved by stand-up comedy|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/sindhu-vee-interview-comedy-show-soho-theatre-bush-theatre-a4013916.html|url-status=live|website=Evening Standard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115072953/https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/sindhu-vee-interview-comedy-show-soho-theatre-bush-theatre-a4013916.html|archive-date=15 November 2022}}

Sindhu started performing stand-up comedy in 2012 and has performed on stage in the United Kingdom, India and the United States.{{cite web|url=http://mcintyre-ents.com/talent/sindhu-vee/|title=Sindhu Vee - Phil McIntyre|work=Phil McIntyre|access-date=11 May 2018|archive-date=11 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711205935/http://mcintyre-ents.com/talent/sindhu-vee/|url-status=dead}} She appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe each year between 2013 and 2017. Sindhu was nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award in 2016 and was second at the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year in 2017 and third at the NATYS: New Acts of the Year Show in the same year.

Sindhu now lives in London, England with her Danish financier husband and their three children.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2ksfvWBblVDBcdF7PBRGH4P/meet-sindhu-vee|title=BBC Comedy of the Week: Meet Sindhu Vee|work=BBC}}

• BBC Radio 4 Comedy of the Week (podcast radio show){{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9x6|title=BBC Comedy of the Week|work=BBC}}
• Quote... Unquote (radio game show)

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• {{Official website|http://sindhuvee.com/}}
• {{IMDb name|8930223}}

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Category:1969 births

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century Indian comedians

Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford

Category:Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom

Category:Indian stand-up comedians

Category:Indian women comedians

Category:British stand-up comedians

Category:British women comedians

Category:McGill University alumni

Category:University of Chicago alumni

Category:Delhi University alumni

Category:Indian humorists

Category:Indian women humorists

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