Sandi is well known to UK audiences as an author, writer, comedian and broadcaster, with television credits including celebrated series Call My Bluff (as regular team captain), Whose Line Is It Anyway?, QI and The Great British Bake Off. 

For a decade Sandi was a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 listeners as the chair of The News Quiz which led to her induction into the Radio Hall of Fame. 

Much of Sandi’s time is devoted to writing and in 2019 she became president of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain. As an author Sandi has more than 20 fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults to her credit. Her most recent book, which was published in November of this year, is Toksvig’s Almanac 2021, an eclectic meander through the historical year. 

For the theatre Sandi has co-authored the musical Big Night Out at the Little Sands Picture Palace Theatre (with Dillie Keane), the Shakespeare deconstruction, The Pocket Dream (with Elly Brewer), Charity Begins for Playhouse Live, Bully Boy and Silver Linings. Her adaptation of Treasure Island reopened the Leicester Haymarket Theatre in December 2018. In 2019 her adaptation of Mamma Mia the Party opened at London’s 02. 

Sandi is an activist for gender equality, and in 2014 she co-founded the Women’s Equality Party.