Krissie Illing, (Christine Elisabeth Illing), is an English dancer, mime, clown, comedian, and ventriloquist, born 8 December 1956 in Beckenham, Bromley, London.Illing took ballet dancing lessons as a child. She studied dance at the Royal Academy of Dance in London and embraces tap dance and jazz dance at the Covent Garden Dance Centre. In 1980 she teamed up with Patti Webb and together appeared as street performers in London's Covent Garden pitches and at London night clubs. When she went to Paris in 1982 she studiesd the art of corporeal mime at Étienne Decroux's school in Boulogne-Billancourt. Back in London, in 1984, she met Mark Britton and they paired up to form the comedy duo "Nickelodeon". Today Krissie Illing lives in Vaour in southern France with her husband Chris Adams, himself a British juggling artist. They have two children. Wikipedia