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

Bottom

The Comic Strip

Blackadder

War and Peace

The Young Ones

3 Body Problem

Twisted Tales

RSC Live: Twelfth Night

Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour

Genius

Death in Paradise

Back to Life

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective

Alien: Earth

Urban Myths

King Rocker

Jonathan Creek

Upstart Crow

Midsomer Murders

If You See God, Tell Him

Absolutely Fabulous

French & Saunders

Press Gang

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity

The Pact

The Graham Norton Show

The Comic Strip Presents...

Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live

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

Natural World