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Adrian Edmondson
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Adrian Edmondson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He went to Manchester University to study drama. Whilst he was there he met Rik Mayall, and the pair began performing as 20th Century Coyote. The act continued after university when Adrian & Rik moved to London, and they became two of the leading lights in the new 'alternative comedy' scene, performing at the newly established Comedy Store, and setting up their own club, The Comic Strip, with 'Peter Richardson', Nigel Planer, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Alexei Sayle. This spawned two 1980s TV series: The Young Ones (1982), and The Comic Strip Presents... (1982) In the 1990's Ade & Rik continued their partnership with a new series called Bottom (1991), which ran for three seasons and became a major success on the live circuit. It was basically a live sitcom, liberally sprinkled with slapstick humour, and the pair did 5 long tours between 1993 and 2003. Simultaneously, Adrian established himself as an actor, doing two improvised TV films under the Screen One and Screen Two umbrella, with director Les Blair: Screen Two: Honest, Decent and True (1986), and Screen One: News Hounds (1990) (winner of the BAFTA for best single drama). He was a regular in the hospital drama Holby City (1999) from 2005 - 2008. He took the lead in a drama documentary about the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in the series Surviving Disaster (2006), and appeared as Henry Austen in the TV movie Miss Austen Regrets (2008), the film Blood (2012), and the drama series Prey (2014). But his most notable dramatic role to date is that of Count Rostov in the BBC series War & Peace (2016).
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Adrian Edmondson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He went to Manchester University to study drama. Whilst he was there he met Rik Mayall, and the pair began performing as 20th Century Coyote. The act continued after university when Adrian & Rik moved to London, and they became two of the leading lights in the new 'alternative comedy' scene, performing at the newly established Comedy Store, and setting up their own club, The Comic Strip, with 'Peter Richardson', Nigel Planer, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Alexei Sayle. This spawned two 1980s TV series: The Young Ones (1982), and The Comic Strip Presents... (1982) In the 1990's Ade & Rik continued their partnership with a new series called Bottom (1991), which ran for three seasons and became a major success on the live circuit. It was basically a live sitcom, liberally sprinkled with slapstick humour, and the pair did 5 long tours between 1993 and 2003. Simultaneously, Adrian established himself as an actor, doing two improvised TV films under the Screen One and Screen Two umbrella, with director Les Blair: Screen Two: Honest, Decent and True (1986), and Screen One: News Hounds (1990) (winner of the BAFTA for best single drama). He was a regular in the hospital drama Holby City (1999) from 2005 - 2008. He took the lead in a drama documentary about the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in the series Surviving Disaster (2006), and appeared as Henry Austen in the TV movie Miss Austen Regrets (2008), the film Blood (2012), and the drama series Prey (2014). But his most notable dramatic role to date is that of Count Rostov in the BBC series War & Peace (2016).
Known For
The Graham Norton Show
Ready Steady Cook
Midsomer Murders
Richard Osman's House of Games
Death in Paradise
Going Live!
Great British Menu
Would I Lie to You?
Absolutely Fabulous
Genius
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Spine Chillers
French & Saunders
Twisted Tales
Blackadder
3 Body Problem
School's Out
Pebble Mill
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
Celebrity Mastermind
The One Show
Surviving Disaster
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Alien: Earth
War and Peace
Ronja the Robber's Daughter
Miss Austen Regrets
Demonella
The Pact
The Strike
Oxford
The Trick
GLC: The Carnage Continues
A Spy Among Friends
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
Prey
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door
Happy Families
Les Dogs
The Best of French & Saunders
One of Us
The Yob
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Honest Decent & True
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Bottom
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
Four Men in a Car
Red Nose of Courage
If You See God, Tell Him
Filthy Rich & Catflap
Production Credits
Bottom
Mirrorball
Honest Decent & True
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