Sukhjeet Kaur "Sukh" Ojla (; born 31 May 1984) is an English

stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...

, novelist,

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and comedy writer.

Early life

Ojla is from a

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British Punjabi

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family. After school, she attended drama school at the Court Theatre Training Company.

Career

Ojla has acted in '' Black Mirror'' ("

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"), ''

Hospital People ''Hospital People'' is a BBC One Mockumentary series set in the fictional Brimlington Hospital in the fictional town of Brimlington. The main star of the programme is Tom Binns who plays four different characters in the series. He has a supporti ...

'', ''

EastEnders ''EastEnders'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the Ea ...

'', ''

GameFace ''Gameface'' is the debut studio album by Filipino pop/ R&B singer Jay R, released in the Philippines in August 2003 by Universal Records. He produced the album together with Ray Brown and Troy Johnson, in partnership with NuLife and his recor ...

'', '' The End of the F***ing World'' and the film '' Victoria and Abdul''. Her stage work has included Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's ''Elephant'' ( Birmingham Repertory Theatre) and Tamsin Oglesby's ''Future Conditional'' ( The Old Vic). Ojla began to perform stand-up comedy in 2016. She has appeared on ''The Big Asian Stand-Up'' and '' Mock the Week''. Ojla wrote and starred in the play ''Pyar Actually'' in 2017. Ojla published her first novel, ''Sunny'', in 2021.

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* * English women comedians Living people English people of Punjabi descent 1984 births English women dramatists and playwrights 21st-century English actresses Actresses from London English soap opera actresses English television actresses English film actresses 21st-century English comedians 21st-century English women writers English people of Indian descent British actresses of Asian descent Comedians from London {{UK-comedian-stub