Graham William Walker, better known by his stage name Graham Norton, is an Irish actor, author, comedian, commentator, and presenter. Well known for his work in the UK, he is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show (2007–present) and an eight-time award-winner overall—
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Originally shown on BBC Two before moving to other slots on BBC One, his chat show succeeded Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in BBC One’s prestigious late-Friday-evening slot in 2010.
From 2010 to 2020, Norton presented the Saturday-morning slot on BBC Radio 2. In 2021, he began presenting on Saturdays and Sundays on Virgin Radio UK. In 2012, he sold his production company So Television to ITV for around £17 million. In 2019, he became a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.
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Graham Norton Siblings: Metto Paula Giles
Graham is the younger sister of Paula Giles. They were very close growing up, even attending the same Protestant boarding school.
His sister, Paula Giles, is politically active in the Irish Green Party and was the party’s National Spokesperson for Food and Agriculture in the late 1990s. She was put forward as a Green Party candidate in the 28th Dáil elections, but only managed to secure a 3.49% share of the vote in the Cork South West constituency.


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