Nina Conti

Nina Margarita Conti is an English actress, comedian and ventriloquist. Among many characters, her primary onstage puppet sidekicks are a whitehaired Scottish grandmother named Granny and a deadpan and somewhat sinister monkey named Monk.

Conti was born and raised in Hampstead, London, the daughter of actors Tom Conti and Kara Drummond Wilson. She was educated at King Alfred School, London, and graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Philosophy from the University of East Anglia in 1995.

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