The winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award best newcomer in 2015 and the Chortle Best Newcomer Award in 2014, Copenhagen-born Sofie Hagen started comedy in 2010, and was runner-up in the Leicester Square Comedian Of The Year 2012 and a finalist in the Piccadilly Comedy Club new act competition in the same year. She also won the Laughing Horse New Act Of The Year competition in 2013.