Hannah Gadsby Bio | Wiki
Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian, writer, and actress. She commenced her career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006. In 2018, Hannah’s show Nanette on Netflix won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and a Peabody Award.
Starting in 2019, she toured internationally with her show Douglas and the recorded special was released on Netflix in 2020. In 2021, Hannah was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tasmania. In March 2022, she published Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation.
Hannah Gadsby Age
Hannah was born on January 12, 1978, in Smithton, Australia. She is 44 years old.
Hannah Gadsby Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 6 in (Approx. 1.67 m).
Hannah Gadsby Family
She was born and raised in Smithton, a small town on the remote northwest coast of Tasmania by her mother Kay Gadsby, and her father. Hannah was the youngest of five children. She holds an Australian nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity.
Hannah Gadsby Partner
Hannah is openly lesbian. She married producer Jenney Shamash in January 2021. She often includes LGBTQ-related themes in her stand-up routines. Hannah was diagnosed with ADHD and autism in 2017. She is an active supporter of various charities. Organizations she has assisted include Big Brothers Big Sisters of Melbourne, Edmund Rice Camps of Victoria, and the Sacred Heart Mission.
Hannah Gadsby Education
She attended Smithton High School from 1990 to 1995. In year 12, Hannah attended Launceston College, where she had a nervous breakdown. She began third-level studies 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, Hannah worked in bookshops in Canberra and became a projectionist at an outdoor cinema in Darwin.
Hannah Gadsby Nanette
Hannah created the stand-up show she 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 her diagnosis of ADHD and autism.
Nanette explores topics such as homophobia, xenophobia, sexism, and gendered violence. Elahe Izadi of The Washington Post states although Nanette is a comedy, Hannah insists the audience recognize the dark truth of trauma and assault.
After winning the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Barry award, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Comedy Award, and Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer, Netflix released the film version of Nanette in 2018. On Rotten Tomatoes, Nanette received an approval rating of 100% based on reviews from 49 critics.
Hannah Gadsby Book
In March 2022, Hannah published Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation. The book was a New York Times bestseller. A review in Time by Trish Bendix states the book “addresses the weighted issues of historical gender-based violence, misogyny, sexual abuse, homophobia, ableism, and fatphobia, all of which Gadsby has directly experienced”.
Hannah Gadsby Movies
She co-wrote and co-starred in the Australian ABC TV show Adam Hills Tonight for three seasons from February 2011 to July 2013. Hannah had regular segments called “On This Day” and “Hannah Has A Go” and was also featured on the couch, contributing as host Adam Hills interviewed his guests.
She co-wrote and presented a three-part series on ABC, Hannah Gadsby’s Oz, which aired in March 2014. Produced by Closer Productions, this series set out to “debunk the myths of the Australian identity perpetuated by national art”. From 2013 to 2016, Hannah co-wrote 20 episodes of the television series Please Like Me with fellow comedian Josh Thomas. In it, she played Hannah, a fictional version of herself.
Hannah Gadsby Douglas
Hannah previewed her new show, Douglas, in Adelaide, before touring the U.S. and Australia, where many shows became sold out in advance in March 2019. In the show, she explores new personal revelations “with empathy, wit, and some extremely relatable metaphor”, and creates something “bigger than comedy” according to one reviewer of the preview show.
In Douglas, Hannah discusses her autism diagnosis, aiming to help people understand neurodiversity as part of a normal variation of the human condition. Netflix released a filmed version of the live show in 2020.
Hannah Gadsby Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Hannah’s estimated net worth is $1 million.
Who Is Hannah Gadsby
Hannah is an Australian comedian, writer, and actress. She commenced her career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006. In 2018, Hannah’s show Nanette on Netflix won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and a Peabody Award.