Jessica Alice Fostekew (born 5 July 1983) is an English actor and stand-up comedian.
Fostekew was born in Sheffield in 1983 and grew up in Langton Matravers, Dorset.
She is of one-quarter Austrian ancestry.
She earned an LL.B. from the London School of Economics.
Fostekew has written for Mock The Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The News Quiz.
She has cohosted The Guilty Feminist.
2019
In 2019, her show "Hench" was nominated for the Main Award at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
In 2019 she appeared on Live at the Apollo and The Museum of Curiosity and in 2020 appeared on QI.
In April 2022 Fostekew published an article in The Guardian criticising an election candidate for expressing opposition to the legality of same-sex marriage, arguing that this amounts to hate speech.
Fostekew is a keen weightlifter and whilst it has been claimed that she integrates this hobby into her act, Jessica clarified in a recent radio interview that this is not the case.
