Hannah Gadsby was born on January 12, 1978 in Smithton, Tasmania, Australia. She is a writer and actress, known for 汉纳·盖茨比告别秀:娜娜 (2018), Please Like Me (2013) and The Librarians (2007).
She was diagnosed with ADHD and autism in 2017. She refers to her autism in her 2019 show Douglas in a way aimed to help people understand neurodiversity as part of a normal variation of the human condition.