Urzila Carlson

Urzila Carlson is a comedian and actress from New Zealand, born in South Africa in 1976 and raised in Benoni, near Johannesburg. She worked as a newspaper typesetter in South Africa before moving to New Zealand in 2006, and took up comedy two years later. She became known for stand-up and for television panel work, as a regular on 7 Days and on the Australian and New Zealand versions of Have You Been Paying Attention?, and appeared on The Masked Singer Australia and Taskmaster New Zealand. Her stage shows include The Long Flight To Freedom, and she has appeared at gala shows for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival across several years. She was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer in 2018, and the New Zealand Comedy Guild named her best female comedian six times between 2010 and 2016. She appeared as Fallon in the comedy Kinda Pregnant (2025).