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Sandi Toksvig: Girton College
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Toksvig began her comedy career at Cambridge where she wrote and performed in the first all-woman show at the Cambridge Footlights. She was ... a member of Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society while a student at Girton College, Cambridge, and moved via children's television onto the comedy circuit. She performed at the first night of The Comedy Store in London and was once part of The Comedy Store Players, an improvisational comedy team.
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Toksvig's father was a foreign reporter for a Danish television channel, and she spent most of her youth abroad (including the US). She studied law and anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, but ended up getting into drama. She wrote and performed in the first all-woman show at the Cambridge Footlights, and moved via children's television into the comedy circuit.
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Her father (Claus Toksvig) was a foreign correspondent for a Danish television channel (Danmarks Radio), so she spent most of her youth abroad. She studied law and anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge. Her brother, Nick Toksvig, attended Hull University and was a friend of journalist and Beirut hostage John McCarthy (with whom Sandi undertook a round Britain yachting adventure in 1995).
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