Adrian Edmondson

Known for ActingBorn 1957-01-24 (age 69)Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Celebrity Catchphrase

Bottom Mindless Violence

War

More Bad News

Ade in Britain

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Bad News

Comic Relief Does Fame Academy

Mirrorball

Ready, Steady, Cook

Red Nose of Courage

Would I Lie to You?

Going Live!

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live

Bottom Live: The Stage Show

Blackadder

The Comic Strip

Bottom

Twisted Tales

3 Body Problem

The Young Ones

RSC Live: Twelfth Night

War and Peace

Genius

Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour

Death in Paradise

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

Back to Life

Jonathan Creek

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective

Alien: Earth

Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour

Spine Chillers

Absolutely Fabulous

King Rocker

Upstart Crow

Midsomer Murders

Urban Myths

Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard

If You See God, Tell Him

Press Gang

The Graham Norton Show

French & Saunders

Sam & Ade Go Birding

Natural World

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

The Comic Strip Presents...