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Sue Lawley è nata il 14 luglio del 1946 a Sedgley nello Staffordshire nel 1946 ed è una nota presentatrice TV.
Ha studiato prima alla Dudley Girls High School e si è laureata in lingue moderne all'Università di Bristol e si è sposata due volte, la prima con un avvocato e la seconda con Hugh Williams un produttore televisivo.
Subito dopo la laurea ha iniziato al sua lunga carriera nella BBC di Plymouth ed è ben nota ai telespettatori di lingua inglese per i suoi famosi "Saturday Night" che la BBC lanciò nel 1989.
Amante del viaggiare, dello sciare e del passeggiare, Sue ha dedicato molto del suo tempo al Bridge diventando una discreta giocatrice, senza dubbio la migliore tra le celebrità che hanno partecipato nel 2009 alla gara di beneficenza chiamata "Celebrity Grand Slam" che, naturalmente, ha vinto con distacco.
Born in Sedgley, Staffordshire (14 July 1946), England and brought up in
the Black Country, she was educated at Dudley Girls High School and graduated in
modern languages from the University of Bristol and some time later started her
career at the BBC in Plymouth.
Whilst at university, due to peer pressure, she changed or moderated her "Dudley (Black Country) accent", to one more closely associated with RP (received pronunciation).
In 1981, she made a guest appearance in the Yes Minister episode "The Quality of Life", playing herself. Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, Lawley was the regular stand-in for Terry Wogan on his eponymous BBC1 thrice weekly chat show Wogan. From 1988 to 26 August 2006 Lawley was the presenter of Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4.
In 1989, the BBC launched Lawley in her own Saturday night talk show, which was panned by the critics and was cancelled after one season.
The very first guest interviewed was the then HRH The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson. Lawley left the BBC to work for ITV, but did little work for them, other than an occasional series of high profile interviews, which included British Prime Minister John Major. She returned to BBC1 in 1993 to host the show Biteback.
Lawley was later part of ITN's presenting team in its ITV Election 97 coverage.
Lawley introduces the BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures and is also a board member of the English Tourism Council and the English National Opera.
Her second marriage was in 1987, to Hugh Williams, a television executive. Her first husband was a lawyer.
She lists her favourite pastimes as skiing, walking, travelling and playing bridge and she won recently the "Celebrity Grand Slam".
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