Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 24, 1957
Place of Birth
Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Credits
169 titles
Adrian Edmondson
Biography
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).
Known For
Filmography
Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard
Self
Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen
Self (archive footage)
Sam & Ade Go Birding
Partridge and Moulding Want To Get Laid
Thanks
Alien: Earth
Atom Eins
Bergerac
Nigel
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
Phil
Bottom: Exposed
Himself
3 Body Problem
Denys Porlock
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Self
Toad & Friends
Toad
A Spy Among Friends
Sir Roger Hollis
The Best Birthday Ever
Granny (voice)
The Trick
Edward Acton
The Pact
Richard
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Self
King Rocker
Self (archive footage)
Out of Her Mind
Lewis
Between the Covers
Self
Completely Bad News
Vim Fuego
The Rizen: Possession
The Interviewer
Back to Life
John Boback
Cheat
William Vaughan
Celebrity Catchphrase
Self - Contestant
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
Save Me
Gideon Charles
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
Malvolio
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Captain Peavey
Bancroft
Superintendent Cliff Walker
Richard Osman's House of Games
Self - Contestant
Interlude in Prague
Herr Luptak
The Rizen
Interviewer
Genius
David Hilbert
Urban Myths
Leslie Conn
One of Us
Peter Elliot
Upstart Crow
Dogberry
War and Peace
Ilya Rostov
Rocky Horror Show Live
Narrator
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
Noodle Pete (voice, English version)
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Self
Prey
DCI Warner
Ade at Sea
Self
Catchphrase
Gadget Man
Five Go to Rehab
Dick
Blood
Tom Tiernan
Britain Beware!
Self (Presenter)
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
Headmaster Wackville
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
Self - Contestant
Ade in Britain