Hannah Gadsby facts for kids
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| Born | January 12, 1978 Burnie, Tasmania, Australia |
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| Education | University of Tasmania Australian National University (BA) |
| Years active | 2006–present |
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Hannah Gadsby (born 12 January 1978) is an Australian comedian, writer, and actor. They began their career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006. In 2018, their show Nanette on Netflix won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and a Peabody Award.
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Early life
Hannah Gadsby was born in Smithton, a small town on the remote north-west coast of Tasmania. She was the youngest of five children. She attended Smithton High School from 1990 to 1995. In year 12, she attended Launceston College, where she had a nervous breakdown. She began studying at the University of Tasmania in Hobart but later transferred to the Australian National University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in art history and curatorship in 2003.
After her education, Gadsby worked in bookshops in Canberra and became a projectionist at an outdoor cinema in Darwin. She then spent two years picking vegetables and planting trees along the east coast of Australia. She became homeless, which she later attributed in part to her ADHD, and ill enough with acute pancreatitis to require hospitalisation.
Career
Gadsby co-wrote and co-starred in the Australian ABC TV show Adam Hills Tonight through three seasons from February 2011 to July 2013. They co-wrote (with Matthew Bate) and presented a three-part series on ABC, Hannah Gadsby's Oz, which aired in March 2014. From 2013 to 2016, they co-wrote 20 episodes of the television series Please Like Me with fellow comedian Josh Thomas.
Gadsby created the stand-up show they named Nanette partly as a response to the public debate which took place in Australia before the law was changed to allow same-sex marriage, and also after their diagnosis of autism.
After Gadsby won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Barry award, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Comedy Award, and the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer, Netflix released the film version of Nanette in 2018.
Starting in 2019, Gadsby toured internationally with their show Douglas and the recorded special was released on Netflix in 2020. In 2021, they were awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tasmania. In March 2022, they published Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation.
From June through September 2023, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death, the Brooklyn Museum hosted It's Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby. The exhibition, curated by Gadsby, was meant to explore Picasso's "complicated legacy through a critical, contemporary, and feminist lens, even as it acknowledges his work's transformative power and lasting influence".
Personal life
In January 2021, Gadsby married producer Jenney Shamash.
Gadsby is an active supporter of various charities. Organizations they have assisted include Big Brothers Big Sisters of Melbourne, Edmund Rice Camps of Victoria, and the Sacred Heart Mission.
Awards
- 2006: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Raw Comedy winner
- 2006: Edinburgh Festival Fringe, So You Think You're Funny? – Second place
- 2007: Adelaide Fringe, Best Newcomer Award for Hannah Gadsby is Wrong and Broken
- 2010: Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer – nominee for The Cliff Young Shuffle
- 2010: Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Directors' Choice Award
- 2011: Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer – nominee for Mrs Chuckles
- 2011: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Barry Award nominee
- 2017: Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer for Nanette
- 2017: Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Barry Award winner for Nanette
- 2017: Edinburgh Festival Fringe Comedy Award – joint winner for Nanette, tied with John Robins for The Darkness of Robins
- 2017: Adelaide Fringe Best Comedy Award
- 2018: 7th AACTA International Awards Best Comedy Program – nominee
- 2018: AACTA Award for Best Performance in a Television Comedy
- 2019: Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer for Douglas
- 2019: MTV Movie & TV Awards – nominee for Best Real-Life Hero
- 2019: Peabody Award for Nanette
- 2019: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for Nanette
See also
In Spanish: Hannah Gadsby para niños
