Jenny Eclair (born Jenny Clare Hargreaves on 16 March 1960 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — then Malaya) is a comedienne, actress and novelist, working in the United Kingdom.
She is the only woman (so far - 2000) to have won the Edinburgh Festival's coveted Perrier Award for comedy. She has one daughter Phoebe (born 1989) with husband Geoff. Her dad was an army major She has one brother and one sister who are both barristers. She studied drama ar the old Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre. She became a "punk poet" in the early 1980s and adopted the name Eclair when pretending to be French in a Blackpool (England) nightclub. She was in a band called Cathy La Creme and the Rum Babes in the early 1980s. She is writing a novel called "Camberwell Beauty" which will be published in November 2000.
Is a regular on several Radio 4 panel games, particularly "Just a Minute".
