Rowan Sebastian Atkinson , CBE (born January 6, 1955) is an English actor, comedian and scriptwriter famous for his work in the sitcom Blackadder and Mr. Bean . Atkinson first became famous on the comedy showcase BBC Not News Nine O'Clock (1979-82), received BAFTA 1981 for Best Entertainment Performance, and through his participation in The Secret Policeman's Ball from 1979. Other works including the 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again, acted as a clumsy vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), voiced the Zazu red hornbill in The Lion King (1994), and featured in the sitcom BBC The Thin Blue Line (1995-1996). His work at the theater includes the 2009 West End musical revival Oliver! .
Atkinson is listed on The Observer as one of the 50 funniest actors in the British comedy, and among the 50 best comedians ever, in a 2005 poll of fellow comedians. In addition to BAFTA 1981, he received an Olivier Award for his 1981 West End theater performance at Rowan Atkinson on Revue. He also had a cinematic success with his performance in Mr. film's adaptation. Bean Bean and Bean's Holiday, and also in Johnny English (2003), and its sequel
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Atkinson, the youngest of four siblings, was born in Consett, County Durham, England, on January 6, 1955.
His parents were Eric Atkinson, a farmer and company director, and Ella May (nÃÆ' Â © e Bainbridge), who married on June 29, 1945. His three brothers were Paul, who died as an infant; Rodney, Eurosceptic economist who narrowly lost the election of the leadership of the British Independence Party in 2000; and Rupert.
Atkinson grew up in Anglican, and was educated at Durham Choristers School, preparatory school, St Bees School, and Newcastle University, where he received his degree in Electrical Engineering. In 1975, he went on to hold a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at The Queen's College, Oxford, the same college in which his father became matriculation in 1935, and made Atkinson the Honorary Member in 2006.
First winning national attention at The Oxford Revue at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 1976, he had written and sketched early for shows in Oxford by Etceteras - the shooting group of the Experimental Theater Club (ETC), and for the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) , meeting author Richard Curtis, and composer Howard Goodall, with whom he will continue to collaborate throughout his career.
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Careers
Radio
Atkinson starred in a series of comedy shows for BBC Radio 3 in 1979 called The Atkinson People . It consists of a series of satirical interviews with a great fictional man, played by Atkinson himself. The series was written by Atkinson and Richard Curtis, and produced by Griff Rhys Jones.
Television
After university, Atkinson toured with Angus Deayton as a straight man in an action that was finally filmed for a television show. After the show's success, he conducted a one-off experiment for London Weekend Television in 1979 titled Canned Laughter. Atkinson then proceeded to do Not News Nine O'Clock for the BBC, produced by his friend John Lloyd. She appeared on the show with Pamela Stephenson, Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith, and is one of the lead sketches writers.
The success of Not Nine O'Clock News led him to take a leading role in the Black Age sitcom The Black Adder (1983), which he also wrote with Richard Curtis. After three years, partly due to budgetary issues, the second series was broadcast, this time written by Curtis and Ben Elton. Blackadder II (1986) follows the fate of one of Atkinson's original offspring, this time in the Elizabethan era. The same pattern was repeated in two more sequences of Blackadder the Third (1987) (defined in the District era), and Blacktiever Goes Forth (1989) (defined in World War). The Blackadder series became one of the most successful of all the BBC sitcoms, the special television spawning including Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988), Blackadder: The Cavalier Years i> (1988), and then Blackadder: Back & amp; Forth (1999), set at the turn of the Millennium. The last scene of "Blackadder Goes Forth" (when Blackadder and his men went "above" and attacked to No-Man's Land) has been described as "brave and very poignant". During the one hundred years of 2014 the start of World War I, Michael Gove and war historian Max Hastings complained about the so-called "historical version of Blackadder".
Other Atkinson Creations, the Poor Tuan. Bean , first appeared on New Year's Day in 1990 in a special half-hour for Thames Television. Mr Bean's character has been likened to the modern Buster Keaton, but Atkinson himself has stated that Jacques Tati Monsieur Hulot's character is the ultimate inspiration.
Some sequels for sir. Bean appeared on television until 1995, and his character later appeared in feature films. Bean (1997) directed by Mel Smith, Atkinson's partner at Not Nine O'Clock News . The second movie, Tuan. Bean's Holiday, released in 2007. In 1995 and 1996, Atkinson plays Inspector Raymond Fowler on The Benjamin's TV sitcom written by Ben Elton, which takes place at a centrally located police station in the fictitious Gasforth.
Atkinson has led campaigns for Kronenbourg, Fujifilm, and Give Blood. Atkinson emerged as an irritable and error-prone espionage agent named Richard Lathum in a series of long-running ads for Barclaycard, in which the title characters in Johnny English and Johnny English Reborn i> is based. In 1999, he played as a Doctor in the Fatal Curse of Death, a special Doctor Who series produced for Comic Relief. Atkinson appeared as a In-Car Star with Affordable Price at Top Gear in July 2011, driving Kia Cee'd on the track in 1: 42.2, placing it on top of the leaderboard until Matt LeBlanc then records the lap time of 1: 42.1.
Atkinson appeared at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London as Mr. Bean in a comedy sketch during the "Chariots of Fire" show, playing a single note repeated on the synthesizer. He then falls into a dream sequence in which he joins the runner of the film of the same name (about the 1924 Summer Olympics), defeating them in their iconic run along West Sands at St. Andrews, by riding the minicab and tripping over the front runner. Atkinson starred in Jules Maigret on Maigret , a series of television movies from ITV.
Retirement Bean
In November 2012, it emerged that Rowan Atkinson intended to stop Mr. Bean. "The most commercially successful things for me - basically quite physical, quite childish - I am increasingly feeling I will do far less," Atkinson told Daily Telegraph. The ' . "Despite the fact that your physical abilities are starting to decline, I also think someone in your 50s becomes childish to be a little sad.You have to be careful." He also said that the role made him a degree. But by 2016 Atkinson says he will never retire to play with the beloved Master Bean.
In January 2014, ITV announced a new animated series featuring Mr. Bean with Rowan Atkinson who returned to the role. It is expected to be released online as the Web series later in 2014, as television broadcasts followed soon after. In October 2014, Atkinson also appeared as Mr. Bean on TV commercials for Snickers. In 2015, he starred alongside Ben Miller and Rebecca Front in a sketch for the BBC Red Nose Day where Mr. Bean attended the funeral. By 2017, he appears as Mr. Bean in Chinese film Huan Le Xi Ju Ren .
Movies
Atkinson's film career began with supporters in the unofficial James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983) and the lead role in Dead on Time (also 1983) with Nigel Hawthorne. She was in the 1988 Oscar winning short film The Appointments of Dennis Jennings . He appeared in the debut of director Mel Smith The Tall Guy (1989) and appeared with Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling in Roald Dahl's The Witches (1990). He plays the role of Dexter Hayman in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), a parody of Rambo III , starring Charlie Sheen.
Atkinson was further recognized by his turn as a verbal vocalist at Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and featured at Disney The Lion King (1994) as the voice of Zazu red. He also sang the song I Just Can not Wait to Be King at The Lion King . Atkinson continues to appear in supporting roles in comedy, including the Rat Race <2001>, Scooby-Doo (2002), Love Actually (2003) and crime comedy Keeping Mum (2005), starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, and Patrick Swayze.
In addition to his supporting role, Atkinson also succeeded as a leading man. His television character Bean debuted on the big screen with Bean (1997) for international success. The sequel, sir. Bean's Holiday (2007), also became an international success. He also starred in the parody of James Bond Johnny English (2003), the sequel, Johnny English Reborn (2011), and the second sequel to come; Johnny English Strikes Again (2018).
Theater
Rowan Atkinson performed live on-stage skits - also appeared with members of Monty Python - at The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979) in London for Amnesty International. Atkinson toured four months in England in 1980. Recording of the stage show was later released as Live in Belfast.
In 1984, Atkinson appeared in West End's comedy drama The Nerd with 10-year-old Christian Bale. The Sneeze and Other Stories , seven short works by Anton Chekhov, translated and adapted by Michael Frayn, performed by Rowan Atkinson, Timothy West and Cheryl Campbell at the Aldwych Theater, London in 1988 and early 1989.
In 2009, during the musical revival of West End Oliver! based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, Atkinson played the role of Fagin. The depiction and singing of Fagin at the Royal Theater, Drury Lane in London garnered good reviews and he was nominated for an Olivier Award for best actor in music or entertainment.
On November 28, 2012, Rowan Atkinson repeated Blackadder's role in the comedy "We are Most Amused" for The Prince's Trust at Royal Albert Hall in London. He joins Tony Robinson as Baldrick. The sketch involved the first new Blackadder material for 10 years, with Blackadder as CEO Melchett, Melchett and Darling Bank facing an investigation into the banking crisis.
In February 2013, Atkinson took a titular role in the 12-week production (directed by Richard Eyre) from Simon Gray's Quartermaine Terms game at Wyndham's Theater in London with costar Conleth Hill Game of Thrones ( Game of Thrones ) and Felicity Montagu ( I'm Alan Partridge ). In December 2013, he revived his school sketch for Royal Free Hospital's Rocks with Laughter at the Adelphi Theater. A few days earlier, he did a sketch selection at a small coffee shop in front of only 30 people.
Comics style
Best known for his use of physical comedy in his Mr. Bean persona, other Atkinson characters depend heavily on language. Atkinson often plays authority figures (especially pastors or clergy) to speak with absurd lines with a completely obscure delivery.
One of his more well-known comic devices is the over-articulation of "B" sounds, such as the pronunciation of "Bob" in the episode "Bells" Blackadder II . Atkinson suffers from stammer, and over-articulation is a technique for dealing with problematic consonants.
The often visual-based Atkinson style, which has been compared to the Buster Keaton style, makes it different from most modern television and movie comics, which are heavily dependent on dialogue, as well as stand-up comedies that are largely based on monologues. This talent for visual comedy has caused Atkinson to be called a "man with a rubber face"; A comedy reference was made to this in an episode of Blackadder the Third ("Sense and Senility"), in which Baldrick (Tony Robinson) refers to his master, Mr. E. Blackadder, as "lazy, big-nosed, faceless rubber-faced".
Personal life
In March 2001, when Atkinson was on a vacation trip to Kenya, his private pilot fainted. Atkinson managed to keep the plane in the air until the pilot recovered and was able to land the plane at Wilson Nairobi Airport.
Marriage and children
Rowan Atkinson married Sunetra Sastry in February 1990. They have two children, Ben and Lily. The couple first met in the late 1980s, when she worked as a makeup artist with the BBC. They split up in 2014 and divorced on November 10, 2015. Atkinson has been in contact with Louise Ford since 2014; she gave birth to Atkinson's third child in December 2017.
Politics
In June 2005, Atkinson led a coalition of leading British actors and writers, including Nicholas Hytner, Stephen Fry, and Ian McEwan, to the British Parliament in an effort to force a review of the controversial Race and Religion Drawing Plan, which they felt would provide tremendous power to religious groups to impose censorship on art. In 2009, he criticized homophobic speech laws, saying that the House of Lords should vote against the government's efforts to remove the clause of free speech in anti-gay hate laws.
In October 2012, he voiced his support for the Section 5 Reform campaign, which aims to reform or revoke Article 5 of the 1986 Public Order Act, in particular his statement that contempt may be the reason for his arrest and sentence. This is a reaction to several recent high profile arrests, which Atkinson viewed as a limitation of freedom of expression.
Religious view
Atkinson is known for criticizing religious views and opposing the laws of the Serious Organized Crime and Police Act 2005.
Car
Atkinson holds the C C category (formerly "Class 1") licensed driving lorry, acquired in 1981, since lorries have an appeal to him, and to ensure work as a young actor. He also uses this skill when recording comedic material. In 1991, he starred in self-authored The Driven Man, a series of sketches featuring Atkinson driving around London trying to solve his obsession with cars, and discussing it with taxi drivers, police, used car salesmen and psychotherapists. A lover and participant in auto racing, he appeared as Henry Birkin racer in the Full Throttle television drama in 1995.
Atkinson has raced in other cars, including Renault 5 GT Turbo for two seasons for a series he made. From 1997 to 2015, he had a rare McLaren F1, who was involved in an accident at Cabus, near Garstang, Lancashire, with Austin Metro in October 1999. It broke down again in a serious accident in August 2011 when it caught fire after Atkinson reportedly lost control and crashed tree. The accident caused significant damage to the vehicle, taking over a year to be repaired and leading to the largest insurance payout in the UK, at Ã, Â £ 910,000. He previously had a Honda NSX, Audi A8 a? Koda Superb, and Honda Civic Hybrid.
Conservative Politician Alan Clark, a devotee of classic motor cars, recorded in his book published at a chance meeting with a man he later realized was Atkinson while driving through Oxfordshire in May 1984: "After leaving the Toll Road in Thame I see the colored DBS V8 Aston Martin's dark red on the road slipped with a hood, a man who sadly leaned over it.I told Jane to get in and walk back in. A DV8 in trouble is always good for a swindler. "Clark wrote that he gave Atkinson a ride in the Rolls -Royce to the nearest phone box, but disappointed with his bland reaction to acknowledge, noting that: "he's not sparkling, rather disappointing and honesty."
In July 2001, Atkinson bumped into Aston Martin V8 Zagato at a fan meeting, but went unscathed. This is when he competed in the Aston Martin Owners Club event, at Croft Racing Circuit, Darlington.
One Atkinson car says he will not have a Porsche: "I have a problem with Porsche They are great cars, but I know I can not live with one Somehow, typical Porsche people - and I hope they do not hurt - no, I feel, people like me.I do not go around saying that Porsche is a pile of shit, but I know psychologically I can not handle having it. "
In July 2011, Atkinson emerged as "Star in Car at Affordable Prices" at Top Gear, driving Kia Cee'd around the track in 1: 42.2, giving it first place on the standings board.
Awards
Atkinson was appointed Commander of the Royal Order of the United Kingdom at the 2013 Anniversary Awards for drama and charity services.
Movieography
Movies
Television
Television ads
Stage
References
External links
- Rowan Atkinson on IMDb
- Rowan Atkinson's Biography at BFI Screenonline
- Rowan Atkinson on Rotten Tomatoes
- Rowan Atkinson Interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs , May 20, 1988
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