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Kirsty Wark

Kirsty Wark

Born: 1955-02-03 • Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK

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.

Filmography
City Lights: Pure Dead Brilliant poster
City Lights: Pure Dead Brilliant
2025 • Self
Joan Rivers at the BBC poster
Joan Rivers at the BBC
2024 • Self (archive footage)
Bridget Riley: Painting the Line poster
Bridget Riley: Painting the Line
2021 • Herself - Interviewer
Royal Academy of Arts: Summer Exhibition 2018 poster
Royal Academy of Arts: Summer Exhibition 2018
2018 • Self
The Many Primes of Muriel Spark poster
The Many Primes of Muriel Spark
2018 • Herself - Presenter
Carnage: Swallowing the Past poster
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
2017 • Herself
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie poster
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016 • Kirsty Wark
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Wolf Hall: The Inside Story
2015 • Self - Presenter
Cast & Crew: If.... poster
Cast & Crew: If....
2004 • Self - Presenter
Vivienne Westwood Talks to Kirsty Wark poster
Vivienne Westwood Talks to Kirsty Wark
2004 • Self
The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story poster
The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story
2003 • Narrator
Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing poster
Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing
2001 • Self - Narrator (voice)
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Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001 • Host
Empire of the Nude: The Victorian Nude poster
Empire of the Nude: The Victorian Nude
2001 • Narrator