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Adrian Edmondson
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 Cen…
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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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2026
Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard
Movie Self
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2026
Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
Sam & Ade Go Birding
TV show
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2026
Partridge and Moulding Want To Get Laid
Movie Thanks
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2025
Alien: Earth
TV show Atom Eins
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2025
Bergerac
TV show Nigel
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2024
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
TV show Phil
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2024
Bottom: Exposed
Movie Himself
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2024
3 Body Problem
TV show Denys Porlock
- 2023
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2023
Toad & Friends
TV show Toad
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2022
A Spy Among Friends
TV show Sir Roger Hollis
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2022
The Best Birthday Ever
Movie Granny (voice)
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2021
The Trick
Movie Edward Acton
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2021
The Pact
TV show Richard
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2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Movie Self
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2020
King Rocker
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Out of Her Mind
TV show Lewis
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2020
Between the Covers
TV show Self
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2019
Completely Bad News
Movie Vim Fuego
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2019
The Rizen: Possession
Movie The Interviewer
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2019
Back to Life
TV show John Boback
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2019
Cheat
TV show William Vaughan
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2018
Celebrity Catchphrase
TV show Self - Contestant
- 2018
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2018
Save Me
TV show Gideon Charles
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2018
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Movie Malvolio
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2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Movie Captain Peavey
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2017
Bancroft
TV show Superintendent Cliff Walker
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2017
Richard Osman's House of Games
TV show Self - Contestant
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2017
Interlude in Prague
Movie Herr Luptak
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2017
The Rizen
Movie Interviewer
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2017
Genius
TV show David Hilbert
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2017
Urban Myths
TV show Leslie Conn
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2016
One of Us
TV show Peter Elliot
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2016
Upstart Crow
TV show Dogberry
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2016
War and Peace
TV show Ilya Rostov
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2015
Rocky Horror Show Live
Movie Narrator
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2014
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
TV show Self
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2014
Prey
TV show DCI Warner
