Jessica Fostekew

Jessica Alice Fostekew (born 5 July 1983) is an English actor and stand-up comedian.

Biography
Fostekew was born in Sheffield in 1983 and grew up in Langton Matravers, Dorset. She is of one-quarter Austrian ancestry. She earned an LL.B. from the London School of Economics.

Fostekew has written for Mock The Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The News Quiz. She has co-hosted The Guilty Feminist podcast. In 2019, her show Hench was nominated for the Main Award at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Also, in 2019, she appeared on Live at the Apollo and on the BBC Radio 4 comedy talk show The Museum of Curiosity. She has appeared on QI in 2020 and 2021.

In April 2022, Fostekew published an article in The Guardian criticising an election candidate for expressing opposition to the legality of same-sex marriage, arguing that this amounts to hate speech.

Fostekew is a keen weightlifter, and whilst it has been claimed that she integrates this hobby into her act, she has clarified in a recent radio interview that this is not the case.