Charlie Brooker is an English television presenter, writer, producer and satirist. Charlie Brooker was born in Reading, Berkshire on March 3, 1971.
The names of his parents are not public knowledge. Charlie Brooker grew up in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire, in a relaxed Quaker family.
His parents were Bewitched fans, so he was named Charlton after a character in one episode and his sister Samantha after the series’ main character. As a teenager, he began his career as a writer and cartoonist for Oink!, a late 1980s comic.
Charlie Brooker revealed in 2020 that he suffered childhood trauma when his dad came home having been slashed and stabbed. He said his social worker father had been taking some children to a foster home when their estranged father attacked him with a Stanley knife.
“He stabbed my dad in the stomach, slashed his face, stole the car and was driving around. “So the police showed up at our house.” He added that the attack left his father permanently scarred but the wounds were not visible behind his beard.