Born of Italian parents, Luke was raised bilingual but has always
resided in the UK. His school days were spent at Dulwich College,of
which Bob Monkhouse, Raymond Chandler, Dennis Wheatley, Graham Swift,
Michael Ondatje and "Big Brother UK" producer Peter Bazalgette are
famous alumni... unlike Luke.
He graduated from University College, Oxford in 1981 and spent six
years as an office worker in an inner city social work department
before debuting as a stand-up comedian at London's Comedy Store and
co-founding improvised comedy company "Spontaneous Combustion" with
Jake Arnott, Phil Whelans, Alison Goldie, Chris Stanton, Patrick Marber
and Andrew Bailey and later joined by Stella Duffy and Niall Ashdown.He
was also a central figure in establshing the show Theatresports in the
UK.
He hosted the radio panel game, "You Asked For It" for BBC Radio 4 and
authored and performed in the radio sitcoms, "The World as we Know it"
and "Losers". He acted in four seasons of the BBC1 TV entertainment
show "Confessions" and divides his time between acting and writing. He
has two daughters, Alice (born 1990) and Martha (born 1993)and two step
children, Alfie (born 1996) and Jeanie (born 1999). He has perfomed in
Australia, Canada, USA, Italy, France, Germany and Spain but has always
lived in South East London.
