Lina has three children.[8][failed verification] Divorced, Lina and her ex-husband continue to share their London household as of 2024[update].[9] She is autistic,[10] something she only became aware of in adulthood.[11]
Stand-up
In 2003, Lina was a runner-up at the first Funny Women Awards.[12]
Lina has taken five shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. School of Riason[13] was nominated for the Amused Moose Laughter Awards, and contained one of Dave's Top 10 Jokes of the Fringe, and was later broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Lina's Dear Daughter[14] won the Best Comedy award at the Greater Manchester Fringe. Her other shows include Taboo Raider,[15]Thpethial[16] and It's Not Easy Being Yellow.[17]
Further TV work includes Jongleurs Live,[26]The World Stands Up, Sweet 'n' Sour Comedy,[27]Meet The Blogs, Malai Monologues,[28] the film short Christie,[29] and the documentary, A Bit of Oriental.[30]
Lina voiced the character Perun in Xenoblade Chronicles 2.[31] She also narrated and voiced the character Zoe in the full-cast audiobook of cli-fi (climate fiction) adventure MOOJAG and the Auticode Secret[32] by N.E. McMorran / Spondylux Press, London 2020.
Wilkinson Sword Cutting Edge of Comedy 2002 finalist[41]
Notes
^ abLina's official website states her date of birth, with the year being 1987.[42] That date is utilised by the Funny Women website, in an article on Lina.[43] A different year of birth is indicated in one other source: The Gazette & Essex County Standard reported Lina as being aged 30 in a 2010 article, without specifying her date of birth.[6]
^ abcMackenzie, Louise (16 December 2010). "Who do you think I am? asks funny girl Ria Lina". Gazette & Essex County Standard. Newsquest Media Group Ltd. Retrieved 25 September 2024. The 30-year-old comedian started doing stand-up while at St Andrews University and in 2000, aged 20, she took the show... to the National Youth Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival...