Gillian Burke (born 1974 or 1975[1]) is a natural history television programme presenter, producer and voiceover artist.
Burke studied biology at Bristol University, and subsequently worked as a researcher for the BBC's Natural History Unit.
[1] She worked as a producer and director on several series for Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel, and as a voiceover artist,[3] before becoming a regular presenter on Springwatch in 2017.
In 2019, she hosted Nature's Strangest Mysteries: Solved (Animal Planet), and in 2020 narrated Thailand's Wild Side (National Geographic Channel).
[7][8][6] Her ancestry is Afro-Trinidadian, Seminole, Mauritian and Somalian; her mother was a journalist and worked with the United Nations.