Sue Perkins grew up with two younger siblings, David Perkins and Michelle Perkins. They grew up with their parents in Croydon, London.
Their father worked for a local car dealership and her mother was employed as a secretary. Perkins was educated at Croham Hurst School, a nearby independent school for girls in South Croydon, Greater London, at the same time as a television presenter, Susanna Reid.
Perkins and her siblings have both English and German ancestry including a great-grandmother who was an ethnic German from what is now Lithuania.
They were brought up as Roman Catholics. There isn’t much information about Sue Perkins’s siblings on the internet.