Laura Solon is an English comedian, actor, writer and winner of the 2005 Perrier Comedy Award, only the second woman to win as a solo performer. She was born in London and raised in Great Kimble near Aylesbury. She attended Downe House School followed by Worcester College, Oxford where she received a scholarship. Solon started writing and performing as a student in the Oxford Revue at Oxford University where she studied English.
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- Laura Solon is an English comedian, actor, writer and winner of the 2005 Perrier Comedy Award, only the second woman to win as a solo performer. She was born in London and raised in Great Kimble near Aylesbury. She attended Downe House School followed by Worcester College, Oxford where she received a scholarship. Solon started writing and performing as a student in the Oxford Revue at Oxford University where she studied English. She had tried her hand at being a stand up comedian but found character comedy suited her better . In 2005 Solon won the Perrier award for her one-woman Edinburgh Fringe show Kopfraper's Syndrome: One Man and His Incredible Mind. After this success, the BBC and Channel 4 were keen to acquire her to produce material for them and in April 2006 it was announced by the BBC that Solon had been signed to develop projects for them on Radio and TV. The first series of Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking, a sketch and character comedy series, ran on BBC Radio 4 in January and February 2007. The second series ran in May and June 2008. She has recorded a BBC sitcom pilot by the creators of People Like Us, also featuring Man Stroke Woman's Daisy Haggard, called Great News. She features in Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse's sketch show Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul, broadcast from 2007 on BBC One. Laura was seen in a sketch show for ITV2 Laura, Ben and Him (2008) with Marek Larwood and Ben Willbond. She is currently appearing in Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder, which is shown on ITV1
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- Laura Solon is an English comedian, actor, writer and winner of the 2005 Perrier Comedy Award, only the second woman to win as a solo performer. She was born in London and raised in Great Kimble near Aylesbury. She attended Downe House School followed by Worcester College, Oxford where she received a scholarship. Solon started writing and performing as a student in the Oxford Revue at Oxford University where she studied English.
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