She was raised in Great Kimble near Aylesbury. She attended Downe House School followed by Worcester College, Oxford where she received a scholarship to read English and started writing and performing in the Oxford Revue.
Career
She had tried her hand at being a stand up comedian but found character comedy suited her better.
In 2005 Solon won the Perrier award for her one-woman Edinburgh Fringe show Kopfraper's Syndrome: One Man and His Incredible Mind. After this success, the BBC and Channel 4 were keen to acquire her to produce material for them and in April 2006 it was announced by the BBC that Solon had been signed to develop projects for them on Radio and TV.
The first series of Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking, a sketch and character comedy series, ran on BBC Radio 4 in January and February 2007. The second series ran in May and June 2008; the third series began in November 2009
She has recorded a BBC sitcom pilot by the creators of People Like Us, also featuring Man Stroke Woman's Daisy Haggard, called Great News.
She features in Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse's sketch show Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul, broadcast from 2007 on BBC One. Laura was seen in a sketch show for ITV2 Laura, Ben and Him (2008) with Marek Larwood and Ben Willbond. She is currently appearing in Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder, which is shown on ITV1.
In the first half of 2010 she is touring with her latest production, Rabbit Faced Story Soup. This is a play set in a publisher's office in which she plays every character including an American Super Agent, a lightly tanned boss, a call centre worker, and a diversity officer, plus the publisher who has to deal with The French and a dead rabbit called Ian. It contains a lot of the characters from her radio show, talking and not talking, including Carol Price who is a Divorcee Children's Author and Gwynneth the terrible call centre worker. New characters include Marcia who is an American super publishing agent, she always comes up with new ways of putting people down.
She has been
- Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking (2007), (2008), (2009)
- Frank Skinner on Absolute Radio - Stand-in for Emily Dean (2009)
Actress
Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder, Ruddy Hell!, It's Harry and Paul, Laura, Ben & Him, Learners
Writer:
Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder, Laura, Ben & Him, Man Stroke Woman
Self:
The If.comedy Awards: A Comedy Cuts Special
Herself as a guest. Girls Who Do: Comedy, The Sack Race, Frank Skinner's Opinionated.
bachelor pads londonThe Kimbles are a group of English villages to the south of Aylesbury in the county of Buckinghamshire, sitting at the foot of the Chiltern Hills. The three villages are called Great Kimble, Little Kimble and Kimble Wick. The three villages are respectively named after "The Greater village of Cymbeline", "The Lesser village of Cymbeline", and "Cymbeline's farm". Great and Little Kimble is also the name of a civil parish within Wycombe district.
The Oxford Revue is a comedy group featuring students from Oxford University, England.
Sing Your Grievance - Laura Ben and Him ITV2
