Rowan Atkinson
Soon appearing in Keeping Mum...
The sleepy English hamlet of Little Wallop is about to receive a rude awakening, as the absent-minded Reverend Walter Goodman, played by Rowan, his dissatisfied wife Gloria, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, and their two children, Holly and Petey, await the arrival of their new housekeeper. Gloria is a woman struggling to cope. Her teenage daughter's a nymphomaniac, her young son's the perennial target for the local bullies, and her marriage to Walter has long-since dwindled into monotony. It's no wonder she's failing to resist the advances of her handsome, American, lothario of a golf pro, Lance, played by Patrick Swayze. What this family needs is salvation. And fast. It comes in the form of Grace Hawkins, played by Maggie Smith, a gentle motherly woman with a smile for everyone and an answer for everything. But Grace is not all she seems...
Mr Atkinson has had, like many of the world's best actors, a completely different growing up story. Something is always wrong, Balders. The fact that I am not a millionaire aristocrat with the sexual capacity of a rutting rhino is a constant niggle.
Born in Consett, County Durham in 1955, he came from a family of wealthy farmers who sent him to Durham's historic Chorister school, where Tony Blair was a fellow pupil. He attended Newcastle University before going to Oxford in 1975. It was at Oxford that he met Richard Curtis, and a long working relationship began. Together, they wrote and performed comedy at the Oxford Playhouse, and would later write both the Blackadder series and Mr Bean for BBC television. In 1978, Atkinson was offered starring roles in two British television series, but chose instead to join the BBC's legendary "Not The Nine O'Clock News" team, where he first performed with Tall Guy director Mel Smith. Richard Curtis also wrote Love Actually, the 2003 hit that Atkinson starred in.
As a reward, Baldrick, take a short holiday...... did you enjoy it?
Atkinson made his big-screen debut in 1983's unofficial James Bond picture Never Say Never Again as Nigel Small-Fawcett. See a picture (new window). This may have been a catalyst for Johnny English, the Bond spoof released in 2003 in which the Crown Jewels were stolen, and he eventually uncovered a plot to replace England's monarch with what the British fear the most: a French king.
We're about as similar as two completely dissimilar things in a pod.
The many Blackadder series still remain some of our nation's favourite comedy. Atkinson won several awards for the memorable character. With four impressive seasons spanning the eighties, we're all excited to hear that the BBC are wanting to resurrect the series for a fifth outing. The only hurdle is that Richard Curtis has to solve the problem of returning the characters that were killed off. Blackadder in hell, anyone? Contrary to some people's beliefs, Blackadder was not based on a historical figure.
We're in the stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick Insect got stuck on a sticky bun.
Mr Bean was a character that existed for more than ten years before it hit the television, and became the highest rating comedy show in the 1990s. Sold to more than 200 countries. When the Mr Bean movie came out, it grossed £152m worldwide which placed it in the top five highest-grossing UK films. There are also rumours that he's teamed up with Simon McBurney (The Manchurian Candidate, Onegin, and The Vicar of Dibley) to develop Bean 2. You can even catch up with the
Mr Bean Animated Series at www.mrbean.co.uk
The path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the devil's own satanic herd.
Rowan Atkinson recently defended the right of comedians to poke fun at other people's religion as he joined the campaign against Government plans to create a new offence of incitement to religious hatred reported the Telegraph. 'I remember sitting around with Richard Curtis the month after 11 September thinking of a sketch in which I'd play Osama bin Laden. Wearing a beard, I'd probably bear a slight resemblance to him. We thought of him slipping out of his cave and singing "Reviewing the Situation" from Oliver! and then scuttling back inside.' Despite the controversy it could cause, he would still swap the burden of comedy for the joy of fixing a plug.
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