Kirsty Wark
Biography
Kirsteen Anne "Kirsty" Wark FRSE is a British journalist and television presenter, best known for fronting BBC Two's news and current affairs programme Newsnight since 1993, and its weekly arts spin-off Newsnight Review from 2002 to 2014. Wark was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 2017.
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Acting History
2025
Forensics: Murder Case as Self - Presenter
2024Lives Well Lived as Self - Presenter
2024Joan Rivers at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
2024Douglas Is Cancelled as Interviewer
2023The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland as Self
2021The Weakest Link as Self
2021Bridget Riley: Painting the Line as Herself - Interviewer
2021The Years that Changed Modern Scotland as Self - Presenter
2019Good Omens as Television Newsreader
2019Joe Lycett's Got Your Back as Self
2018Royal Academy of Arts: Summer Exhibition 2018 as Self
2018The Many Primes of Muriel Spark as Herself - Presenter
2017Richard Osman's House of Games as Self - Contestant
2017Carnage: Swallowing the Past as Herself
2017Walks with My Dog as Self
2016Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie as Kirsty Wark
2015Wolf Hall: The Inside Story as Self - Presenter
2013The Politician's Husband as Herself
2013The Great Comic Relief Bake Off as Self - Contestant
2011Black Mirror as Award Presenter
2011Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
2010Home Movie Roadshow
2010The Review Show
2009A Question of Genius
2008My Family at War
2007The Book Quiz
2007Would I Lie to You? as Self
2007Party Animals
2006The One Show as Self
2006Newsnight Review
2006The IT Crowd as Herself
2005Doctor Who as Kirsty Wark
2004Cast & Crew: If.... as Self - Presenter
2004Vivienne Westwood Talks to Kirsty Wark as Self
2003The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story as Narrator
2002Spooks as Newsnight Presenter
2002Spooks as Newsreader
2001Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing as Self - Narrator (voice)
2001Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul as Host
2001Empire of the Nude: The Victorian Nude as Narrator
1994Room 101 as Self - Guest
1990Have I Got News for You as Self
1980Newsnight
—Have I Got a Bit More News for You as Self - Panellist