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NRI PROFILE
Lilly Singh
The Complete Profile
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Born September 26, 1988, in
Canada to Indian parents,
Lilly Singh is a YouTuber,
comedian, television host and
actress. She is widely known as
IISuperwomanII. In 2017, she
was ranked tenth on the Forbes
list of the world’s highest paid
YouTube stars with earnings of
$10.5 million. Since 2014, Singh
has featured in the annual
YouTube Rewind every year.
She was ranked first on the
2017 Forbes Top Influencers
List in the entertainment
category. In 2019, she was
also named one of the 40 most
powerful people in comedy.
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Singh’s first feature film ‘A Trip to
Unicorn Island’ released in 2016. In
March 2017, she released her first
book titled ‘How to be a Bawse: A
Guide to Conquering Life’, which
turned out to be a No. 1 New York
Times best-seller.
In March 2019, a television
broadcasting company NBC
announced that Singh would be an
executive producer and host a new
late night talk show for the network,
‘A Little Late with Lilly Singh’. The
series premiered on September 16,
2019. With that, Singh tuned out to be
the first woman to host an American
broadcast network late-night talk show
since Cynthia Garrett hosted Later
from 2000 to 2001, the first woman
among the current generation of late-
night hosts on the major broadcast
networks, and the first late-night host to
ever identify as bisexual.
Early Life
Born and raised in Scarborough,
Ontario, Lilly Singh’s parents,
Malwinder Kaur and Sukhwinder are
originally from Hoshiarpur, Punjab,
India, and she was raised as a Sikh.