Rowan Atkinson Biography 2023
Rowan Atkinson Biography 2023
Rowan Atkinson was born on January 6, 1955 in Consett , County Durham, England.
Family
He was the youngest of four children born to Ella Bainbridge and Eric Atkinson, a farmer. His three brothers are Paul, who died when he was a baby; Rodney, an economist, and Rupert. He was raised in the Anglican religion.
For most of his life he suffered from a stutter.
Studies
Rowan Atkinson study at Chadwell’s Private School, Durham Cathedral College. He later studied at the University of Newcastle for three years and then at Oxford, where he graduated as an Engineer .
Actor (Rowan Atkinson Biography 2023)
There Rowan Atkinson met an apprentice screenwriter named Richard Curtis thanks to an ad in the university newspaper that said: We’re thinking of doing a drama revue. It was the summer of 1976 and they began to perform with works such as: The benign king, The benign king with a defect, The benign king with two physical defects, The crazy king, shows witnessed by John Lloyd , BBC producer .
Rowan Atkinson launched his acting career at the 1977 Edinburgh Festival . After an acclaimed revue at the Hampstead Theater in 1978, he worked on the BBC television series Not the Nine O’Clock News .(This is not the nine o’clock news), thanks to John Lloyd. At that time they received an International Emi Award , and an English Academy Award , for Best Entertaining Program of 1980.
Their show at London’s Globe Theater won the Society of West End Theaters awards for Comedy Performance of the Year.
In 1983 Rowan Atkinson wrote together with the writer Richard Curtis Black Adder (The black viper). In 1985 he made Blackadder II and in 1987 Blackadder III , and Blackadder The Third , in 1988 Blackadder’s Christmas Carol .
Mr Bean (Rowan Atkinson Biography 2023)
In 1989 he participated in The Tall Guy , an English comedy, and ended with Captain Blackadder and Ebenezor Blackadder . In the same year, he invented the new Popular character Mr. Bean to make silent comedy, which was an immediate success.
Of the series written by Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis and Robin Driscoll, 14 chapters of 30 minutes each were made and it lasted until 1995. The series was sold to more than eighty countries and achieved, among other distinctions, the Golden Rose award in Montreux .
Films
In 1993 he appeared in Hot shots: Part Deux , in 1994 he voiced Zazu, (the little bird) in the original version of The Lion King , and played a small role in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral. ).
Later he made the series The Thin Blue Line where he played Raymond Fowler, a neighborhood policeman.
The film, Bean , began shooting on September 30, 1996. In the plot, he is a gallery keeper in England. To get rid of him, he is sent to testify at the Grierson Gallery in California, the acquisition of America’s greatest painting, Whistler’s Mother. The tape was released in England in the summer of 1997 and months later in the United States.
In 2003 he starred in Johnny English and in 2005 Family Secrets . In 2007 he worked on Mr. Bean’s Holiday and in 2011 he followed it up with the Johnny English sequel, Johnny English Reborn . In 2018 he shot Johnny English Strikes Again .
couples and children
He had relationships with actress Leslie Ash.
He married Sunetra Sastry in 1990. They met in the late 1980s, when she was working as a make-up artist at the BBC. They were parents to Lily and Benjamin. In February 2014, Atkinson filed for divorce from Sastry after 23 years of marriage.
He began a relationship with Louise Ford since 2014, with whom he had his daughter Isla, in December 2017.
