Purk

Purk is a piglet character from Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street.

Purk is a baby piglet. She wears a diaper and a little bow in her ear. She is clumsy and messy and loves to get herself dirty. She is still learning how to talk, and she can't walk yet. She's taken care of by everyone on Sesamstraat. Everybody loves Purk.

Introduced in a Sesamstraat special in 2003, Purk is the newest of the Muppet characters, and the most popular. She was created in order to introduce the subject of "a younger child in the family". It took three years for Sesame Workshop to approve the character: they felt that Purk should not be too fat due to the issue of obesity. The actual puppet was based on a drawing by Sesamstraat actor and mime artist Hakim Traïda.

Purk is performed by Judith Broersen.