Claudia Anne Irena Winklemanis an English television presenter, radio personality, film critic and journalist. Between 2004 and 2010, she presented Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two on weeknights on BBC Two. Since 2010, she has co-presented Strictly Come Dancing's main results show on Sunday nights with Tess Daly on BBC One and since 2014 has been a main co-host alongside Daly on the Saturday night live shows, following the departure of Sir Bruce Forsyth. She has been nominated three times for the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance for her work on Strictly Come Dancing.
Winkleman was also the presenter of the BBC's Film..., replacing Jonathan Ross after his move to ITV in 2010. She was the co-presenter of Let's Sing and Dance for its first two series with Steve Jones. From 2013 and 2016 she presented the BBC Two series The Great British Sewing Bee. In 2022, Winkleman fronted the BBC reality show The Traitors, for which she received her fourth BAFTA nomination and first win.
Her trademark appearance includes heavy eyeliner and black hair with a characteristic fringe; she has said "I don't think I'd have a career if I didn't have a fringe".
