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My Take
Sarah Millican is proof that comedy's best voices often arrive late and fully formed. Starting stand-up in her thirties and winning Edinburgh's Best Newcomer in 2008 takes a particular kind of nerve, and I hear that hard-won honesty in every routine she does. What I value most is her refusal to perform glamour: she talks about ordinary embarrassments in an ordinary accent and somehow makes them universal. Marrying a fellow comedian and writing a memoir only deepened my sense that her life and her material are one continuous, generous conversation. She is, to my mind, the most trustworthy laugh in Britain.
Overview
Sarah Jane Millican (née King; born 29 May 1975) is an English comedian. Millican won the comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In February 2013 she was listed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Radio 4's Woman's Hour; in the same year, she married fellow comedian Gary Delaney. Her first book, How to Be Champion, was published in 2017.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Sarah Millican
- Name (Japanese)
- サラ・ミリカン
- Reading
- さら・みりかん
- Born
- May 29, 1975 (age 51)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Rabbit
- Origin
- South Shields, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- comedian / stand-up comedian / autobiographer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Mortimer Community College
Awards & achievements
- 2008 Edinburgh Comedy Awards
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://sarahmillican.co.uk/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thesarahmillican/
- Xhttps://x.com/sarahmillican75
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Millican
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.