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Nina Conti Biography
Birth Place:
Hampstead, London, England
Profession
Actor, ventriloquist, comedian
Fast Facts
- Is of Scottish-Italian heritage
- Got into ventriloquism after a friend gave her a how-to kit
- Inherited her "Granny" puppet from actor-ventriloquist Ken Campbell upon his death
- Spent 2000 and '01 with the Royal Shakespeare Company
- She and her dummy Monk the monkey portrayed a TV weather duo in the 2006 comedy For Your Consideration
- An airline once lost Monk temporarily so she decided to have replicas of it made
- Wrote and directed the 2012 documentary Her Master's Voice, which pays homage to her late mentor and lover, Ken Campbell (1941-2008), by taking his puppets to "Vent Haven," an imagined final home for the dummies of dead ventriloquists
- Once took a day course in Mongolian throat-singing
Relationships
- Ken Campbell -- Ex-significant Other
- Arthur Stanley -- Son
- Drummond Stanley -- Son