I photographed Ria outside the Royal Scottish Academy building on Princes Street in Edinburgh. The shoot was between shows during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in summer 2015.
Wikipedia says that Ria Lina is a comedian, actress, and writer, and a winner of the EMMA (The Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy) award in 2003. She has made television appearances on BBC3.
Prior to her career as a comic, Lina acquired a BSc in Experimental Pathology, an MSc in Forensic Science, and a PhD in Viral Bioinformatics and worked as an IT Forensic Investigator for the Serious Fraud Office.
Can the Wikipedia entry be true? Or is Ria having a laugh? Either way, it’s a good one.