Jenny Eclair
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Jenny Eclair (born Jenny Clare Hargreaves on 16 March 1960 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — then Malaya) is a comedienne, actress and novelist, working in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Education and career
She started her education at Queen Marys school, (now King Edward VII and Queen Mary School), Lytham St Annes. She studied at Manchester Polytechnic. She appeared in the early 1990s comedy series Packet of Three, as well as the follow-up series Packing Them In. In 1995 she became the first female winner of the Edinburgh Festival's Perrier Comedy Award and in 2005 appeared in the singing contest, Comic Relief Does Fame Academy.[citation needed]
On 18 March 2007, she was voted 39th on Channel Four's countdown of the greatest ever stand-up comedians.[citation needed]
[edit] Current work
As of April 13 2008 Jenny has left her weekend talk show on LBC 97.3. Her other radio credits include appearing on BBC Radio 4 in the Just a Minute quiz and afternoon plays, various comedy shows on BBC 7 and regularly has covered for Sandi Toksvig on LBC's weekday lunchime chat show (now defunct).
Eclair has appeared on BBC Two's Grumpy Old Women and its various spin-off shows. In 2006, Jenny starred in the stage-show Grumpy Old Women Live! alongside Dillie Keane and Linda Robson. The show was co-written by Jenny and Judith Holder. The spring saw a sell out national tour, June and July a run at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End and the autumn will see another national tour.
Eclair fronts the FSA's salt reduction campaign "Salt, is your food full of it?".[1]
[edit] Books
- The Book of Bad Behaviour (non-fiction) Virgin, 1994. ISBN-10: 0863698565; ISBN-13: 978-0863698569
- Camberwell Beauty (novel) Little, Brown, 2000. ISBN-10: 0316853186; ISBN-13: 978-0316853187
- Sit-Down Comedy (contributor to anthology, ed Malcolm Hardee & John Fleming) Ebury Press/Random House, 2003. ISBN-10: 0091889243; ISBN-13: 978-0091889241
- Having a Lovely Time (novel) Little, Brown, 2005. ISBN-10: 0751536059; ISBN-13: 978-0751536058
[edit] Family life
She has a daughter named Phoebe, to whom she referred during her appearance on Room 101.
In 2005, Eclair's recently-completed home in Camberwell, south London, won the Manser Medal for the best one-off house designed by an architect in the UK.[citation needed][2]
