Nina Conti
- 52 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, ventriloquist and director
Press clippings
Nina Conti: Whose Face Is It Anyway? review
Conti is in supreme command of her comedy chaos, devising voices, ad hoc songs and daft scenarios.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 21st January 2025Nina Conti: Whose Face Is It Anyway? review
Nina Conti came to prominence with tightly-scripted, high-concept shows deconstructing the psychology of ventriloquism, as if needing to add some artistic weight to a party trick she's so insanely good at.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th January 2025Sunlight review
The humour from Conti's puppet stand-up, while it does have its moments on film, does not translate well to the screen at all in Sunlight as a sloppy storyline and recycled jokes fall flat on its face in producing a farce and forgettable plot.
Paul Morrison, Entertainment Now, 22nd August 2024Sunlight review
Sunlight is Nina Conti's debut in the film world. It is an irreverent, outrageously funny, dark love story between a suicidal man and a woman too scared to emerge from a monkey suit.
Alice Pollard, Brig Newspaper, 19th August 2024Sunlight review
Nina Conti's directorial debut strikes the right balance between quirky, cute and tender.
Isy Santini, The List, 19th August 2024Sunlight review
Review of Nina Conti and Shenoah Allen's quirky road trip romcom at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 17th August 2024'I fell in love from within a monkey suit and was scared to leave'
Nina Conti is the country's most beloved ventriloquist, and her new film about a woman falling in love from within a monkey suit is her most personal work yet.
Kitty Chrisp, Metro, 9th August 2024Nina Conti reveals her monkey puzzle starring in and directing debut feature film Sunlight
If it wasn't hard enough to juggle starring in and directing her debut feature film, Nina Conti gave herself an extra challenge - do it all in a giant monkey suit in the blistering heat of the New Mexico desert.
Ross Crae, The Sunday Post, 28th July 2024Nina Conti: I murder other ventriloquists in their sleep
The comedian and actress on her film debut, Edinburgh show and the life-changing moment she picked up Monkey.
Ashley Davies, The Times, 26th July 2024When ventriloquist Nina Conti put on a monkey suit the result was romance and a road movie
Sunlight premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival: A woman, a life-sized monkey suit and a man with unfinished business. When real life and fiction collide.
Janet Christie, The Scotsman, 26th July 2024