Grace Campbell (comedian)
British comedian
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Grace Campbell is a British comedian, filmmaker, writer and presenter. As a stand-up comedian she has performed solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Hammersmith Apollo. She has appeared on Channel 4's Riot Girls. Her first book, Amazing Disgrace: A Book About "Shame", was released by Hodder in 2021.
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Fiona Millar
Grace Campbell | |
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Campbell in 2024 | |
| Alma mater | Parliament Hill School |
| Occupation | Comedian |
| Parent(s) | Alastair Campbell Fiona Millar |
| Website | Official website |
Early life and education
Campbell's father, Alastair Campbell, started working for Tony Blair soon after she was born. Her mother, Fiona Millar, worked for Cherie Blair.[1] She spent her childhood in the New Labour movement, with the children of Blair and Philip Gould, and the grandchildren of Neil Kinnock.[1] She has said she became “more liberal than [her] father and more feminist than [her] mother,”[1] that her experience of politics as a child was “quite brutal”, and that she grew up with protesters outside her house and needed security.[2] Campbell attended Parliament Hill School, and felt she benefited from an all-girls environment.[3] While Tessa Jowell was her childhood inspiration, Campbell has said that Ed Miliband has the best sense of humour.[2] She was a frequent visitor to the Brandon Centre, a youth centre in Kentish Town, where she is now a patron.[4]
Career
Campbell is a feminist. She explained to Varsity that “women love [my stand-up]...they feel seen. They feel like I'm speaking to them and their friends,”.[3] In 2019, she toured the stand-up show "Why I'm Never Going Into Politics", where she revealed that her mother was her inspiration.[5] She performed All About Me(n) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2022.[6]
Campbell was a writer and star of Riot Girls, a Channel 4 show that used stunts and sketches to discuss how women were treated in society.[7]
Campbell's first book, Amazing Disgrace: A Book About "Shame", was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2021.[8] The book explores her relationship with shame, whether that be shame about rejection, sex or mental health. Times Radio described Amazing Disgrace as a “revealing and amusing memoir”,[9] whilst the Evening Standard said it was “an absolute riot. Brash, candid and casually obscene, this part memoir, part manual is a high octane adventure”.[10]
Activism
During a trip to Las Vegas, Campbell was the victim of anal rape.[3][11] She described her experience in The Guardian, and how she felt resentful of her previously “sex-positive” reputation in the immediate aftermath.[11] She has written about how having an abortion affected her “on a physiological and psychological level”.[12]