Lliana Bird

Biography

Lliana Bird is a British actress, radio host, writer and philanthropist.

Relationships

• Lliana Bird has been living with Noel Fielding- an English actor, artist, comedian, musician, tv host & presenter, writer since 2010, they started seeing each other in 2009.

Image: Lliana Bird with Boyfriend

Career

• She has worked at Radio X (previously XFM) as a radio presenter. She hosts the show 'Sunday evening show', and has hosted Saturday afternoon shows.
• Her previous work experience includes- BBC 3, BBC 5, BBC London, Capital Radio, LBC(London Broadcasting Company), Virgin Radio, XFM.
• Independents Day: She presented documentaries on individual record labels in 2010.
• Geek Chic's Weird Science: Bird's weekly podcast were among the best of itunes 2014 collection. she makes science fun to learn.
• On TV: Lliana often appears on TV shows as a guest, some of her appearances include shows on- BBC Breakfast, Sky News.
• XFM TV: She hosted web programs of the radio's shows.
• London Zoo: In 2014 she made a show on conservation of animals at the London Zoo.
• BBC's Springwatch: She has appeared on the BBC show Springwatch as a guest, it is an annual show on the British wildlife during Spring.
• Bird & Be: Director Phoebe Barran & Lliana Bird formed the group 'Bird & Be' in 2009, They performed The Tin Horizon by Orlando Wells as their debut production, which was received well by both critics and audience. 'The Duke in Darkness' another play by Orlando Wells (at Tabard Theatre, Turnham Green, London, W4) in 2013.
• Team Disgusting: She has been a DJ at numerous festivals around the world with her all girls group named 'Team Disgusting'
• Music expertise: She regularly discusses new music, music events, award functions on her radio show. She often invites bands to discuss music with them on air.
• Voiceovers: She has worked as a voice artist for trailers and shows such as- MTV's Pretty Little Liars, Hell Cats
• Interviewing: she frequently interviews comedians and musicians.
• Drive time Show: She worked at Capital Radio as a contributor along with Lucio
• Radio Ads: She has voiced radio ads for Marks & Spencers, Jongleurs Comedy Club, Blonde to Black Productions, Fired Up Productions, Secret Peter Productions, Skype, Veritas Comms and others
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Writing

• Lliana has written many articles for 'Huffington Post UK', you can read her articles here.
• The Mice Who Sing For Sex: And Other Weird Tales from the World of Science: She released her first book on 6 Oct 2016, it was co-written with Dr Jack Lewis. It was inspired from her- Geek Chic's Weird Science episodes. Interesting stories of the book cover animals of ocean like sharks, jellyfish to mice.

Acting

• Fiddler on the Roof: She has performed in the musical 'Fiddler on the Roof' (at the Lyric Theatre).
• Her previous works include- Boom bang-a-bang, The Christmas Cock-up.
• She has worked at theaters like- Etcetera Theatre, Lyric Theatre, The Christmas Cock-up.
• The Mighty Boosh: She has appeared on the British comedy television show created by Julian Barratt & Noel Fielding. It also starred Michael Fielding, Rich Fulcher, Dave Brown.
• Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy: she has appeared on Noel Fielding's surreal new comedy series in 2 seasons in guest roles.
• Treasure Quest: She hosted a weekly Sunday show on Treasure hunt games
• Outside the Box: She has appeared as the host on the TV series

Philanthropy

• The Kindly Collective: An organization that funds and supports projects with big hearts & little voice, they help- women, children & animals in particular. The purpose of the group is to "create & build kindness in others". They connect people who want to help people with those who need help. She co-founded it in 2017.
• Help Refugees: She works with "Help refugees" an organization that helps the refugees settle and find work in the countries they are settled, currently they are working with Syrian refugees. She is the co-founder of the group. The organization won NESTA's New Radicals award, as one of the top 50 radical thinking individual/ organizations of UK which are changing the country for good. Liberty human rights organization gave her 'Jo Cox, More in Common' award for her works.  Foreign Policy magazine listed them among the Global Thinkers  of 2016.
• London Peace Talks: she hosted discussion on promoting peace & inclusivity among different sections of the society for the sake of harmonious living.
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Interesting Facts

• She has been acting on stage since she was just 3 years old.
• David Attenborough Spoof: She has a natural husky voice, however she is known to vary her accent as needed, she made a spoof documentary in the voice of the popular documentary artist David Attenborough.
• Audio books: She works on audio books, her acting and voiceover experience lends her the variation needed to make her audiobooks very good
• Accent Variations: She can do very good in American(many sub accents), Australian, British, French, German, Hebrew, Irish accents.  
• Variety of skills: She has worked on Ads, Audio books, business videos, cartoon voices, documentary videos, educational videos, movies & trailers, musical videos, online podcasting, radio (obviously), TV, telephone voices, video game characters
• Good student: She had been a good student all throughout her school career with straight As in her grades)
• She is an amateur painter as well as a clay crafts enthusiast.
• She has a pup whom she calls honey bear.
• She is the god mother of one of her friend's (Casperoonis) daughter.
• She worked with 'Topos' to help the victims of Mexico earth quake.

Quotes

• You Don't Need Permission to Help Others.
• What a piece of s**t Trump is (On his attempt to squash the bill that makes it illegal to import African hunted animal parts (tusks, bones etc.) to USA)
• Sofas are the greatest inventions
• If everyone outraged spent the same time they spend on ranting into volunteering for charity  the world would be a better place