- Born
- Birth nameJosephine Grace Brand
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Jo Brand was born on July 23, 1957 in London, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Getting On (2009), The More You Ignore Me (2018) and Human Traffic (1999). She has been married to Bernie Bourke since December 19, 1997. They have two children.
- SpouseBernie Bourke(December 19, 1997 - present) (2 children)
- Slow, sardonic delivery style
- Often appears with a scarf tied thinly around her head
- On 17 July 2007, she was awarded an honorary doctorate for her work as a psychiatric nurse from the University of Glamorgan. In January 2014, she was awarded a second honorary doctorate from Canterbury Christ Church University, for her work in raising awareness of mental health issues and challenging the stigma surrounding such illnesses.
- When she was in labor, a man reportedly stuck his head round the door and asked for her autograph.
- Before turning to comedy she was an RMN: Registered Mental Health Nurse.
- Has been praised for raising awareness for Alzheimer's Disease.
- Auditioned for a part on Comics (1993), that was based on her, but she didn't manage to get the part.
- So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.
- I wasn't a real nurse, I was psychiatric.
- There's this test, The Becks Depression Inventory. So my colleague comes in and says "Give the new Patient the BDI", so I went in there and went [strange stare].
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