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Armando Giovanni Iannucci (; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish
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,
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, director, producer and performer. Born in
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to Italian parents, Iannucci studied at the
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followed by the
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. Starting on
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and
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, his early work with Chris Morris on the radio series '' On the Hour'' transferred to television as '' The Day Today''. A character from this series, Alan Partridge, co-created by Iannucci, went on to feature in a number of Iannucci's television and radio programmes, including '' Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge'' and '' I'm Alan Partridge''. Iannucci also fronted the satirical ''
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'' review shows and in 2001 created his most personal work, '' The Armando Iannucci Shows'', for Channel 4. Moving back to the
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in 2005, Iannucci created the political sitcom ''
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'' and the spoof documentary ''
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'' in 2006. Winning funding from the UK Film Council, in 2009 he directed a critically acclaimed feature film, ''
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'', featuring characters from ''The Thick of It''. As a result of these works, he has been described by ''
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'' as "the hardman of political satire". Other works during this period include an operetta libretto, ''Skin Deep'', and his radio series ''
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''. Iannucci created the
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political satire '' Veep'', and was its showrunner for four seasons from 2012 to 2015. For his work on ''Veep'' he won two Emmys in 2015, Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. He followed this with the feature films '' The Death of Stalin'' in 2017 and '' The Personal History of David Copperfield'', a 2019 adaptation of the novel ''
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''. In 2020, he created the comedy series '' Avenue 5'' on HBO.


Early life

Iannucci was born in
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. His father, also called Armando, was from
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, while his mother was born in Glasgow to an Italian family. Before emigrating, Iannucci's father wrote for an anti-fascist newspaper as a teenager and joined the Italian partisans at 17. He moved to Scotland in 1950 and ran a pizza factory in Springburn in Glasgow. Iannucci has two brothers and a sister. His childhood home was near that of actor Peter Capaldi, who went on to play Malcolm Tucker in ''
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'', a TV show created by Iannucci. Although their parents knew each other well, he and Capaldi did not know each other in childhood. In his teens, Iannucci thought seriously about becoming a
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. Iannucci was educated at St Peter's Primary School, St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow, the
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and
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, where he studied
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. He was writing a DPhil thesis about 17th-century religious language, with particular reference to Milton's ''
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'', which he abandoned to follow a comedy career. He was particularly inspired by the American comedian and filmmaker
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, later calling him his "all-time comedy hero".


Career


1990s

After making several programmes at
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in the early 1990s such as the ''No' The Archie McPherson Show'', he moved to BBC Radio in London, making radio shows including ''Armando Iannucci'' for BBC Radio 1, which featured comedians he was to collaborate with for many years, including David Schneider, Peter Baynham,
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and
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. Iannucci first received widespread fame as the producer for '' On the Hour'' on Radio 4, which transferred to television as '' The Day Today''. He received critical acclaim for both his own talents as a writer and a producer, and for first bringing together such comics as Chris Morris, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee, Baynham and Coogan. The members of this group went on to work on separate projects and create a new comedy "wave" pre- New Labour: Morris went on to create '' Brass Eye'', '' Blue Jam'' and the ''Chris Morris Music Show''; Stewart Lee and Richard Herring created '' Fist of Fun'' and '' This Morning with Richard Not Judy''. Baynham was closely involved with both Morris's and Lee & Herring's work. Lee would go on to co-write '' Jerry Springer: The Opera'', and wrote early material for Coogan's character Alan Partridge, who first appeared in ''On the Hour'', and has featured in multiple spin-off series. Between 1995 and 1999, Iannucci produced and hosted '' The Saturday Night Armistice''.


2000s

In 2000, he created two pilot episodes for Channel 4, which became '' The Armando Iannucci Shows''. This was an eight-part series for Channel 4 broadcast in 2001, written with Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil. The series consisted of Iannucci pondering pseudo-philosophical and jocular ideas and fantasies in between surreal sketches. Iannucci has been quoted as saying it is the comedy series he is most proud of making. He told '' Metro'' in April 2007: "''The Armando Iannucci Show'' on Channel 4 came out around 9/11, so it was overlooked for good reasons. People had other things on their minds. But that was the closest to me expressing my comic outlook on life." After championing '' Yes Minister'' on the
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's '' Britain's Best Sitcom'', Iannucci devised, directed and was chief writer of ''
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'', a political satire-cum-farce for
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. It starred Chris Langham as an incompetent cabinet minister being manipulated by a cynical, foul-mouthed Press Officer, Malcolm Tucker. It was first broadcast for two short series on
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in 2005, initially with a small cast focusing on a government minister, his advisers and their party's spin-doctor. The cast was significantly expanded for two hour-long specials to coincide with
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and
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's appointment as
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in 2007, which saw new characters forming the opposition party added to the cast. These characters continued when the show switched channels to
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for its third series in 2009. A fourth series about a coalition government was broadcast in 2012. In a 2012 interview, Iannucci said the fourth series of the programme would probably be its last. Based on a format he had used in '' Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt'' in 1996 and '' 2004: The Stupid Version'', in mid-2006, his spoof documentary series ''
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'' was shown on BBC 2. The series looked back on past events through highly edited clips and "celebrity" interviews, looking back on the present and near-future from the year 2031. One episode, featuring fictional terrorist attacks on London and the assassination of Tony Blair, was postponed and edited in August 2006 amid the terrorism scares in British airports at that time. Jane Thynne, writing in ''
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'', accused the BBC of lacking backbone. He created the American
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political satire television series '' Veep'', starring
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, set in the
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of
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, a fictional Vice-President of the United States. ''Veep'' uses a similar cinéma-vérité filming style to ''The Thick of It''. Debuting in 2012, the show has aired seven seasons, winning multiple awards including seventeen
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. However, beginning with season five, Iannucci stepped down as showrunner due to "personal reasons". In 2019, he began work on a new science fiction sitcom for
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called '' Avenue 5,'' which premiered in 2020 He subsequently became the series executive producer and directed the pilot.


Other work

Iannucci's non-television works include ''Smokehammer'', a web-based project with Chris Morris, and the 1997 book ''Facts and Fancies'', composed of his newspaper columns, which was turned into a
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series. The radio series ''Scraps With Iannucci'', which followed late in 1998, featured Iannucci using his tape-fiddling skills to present a review of the year. In 2007, he directed a series of
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television adverts, featuring the actors John Henshaw, Rory Jennings and Di Botcher alongside guest stars Joan Collins,
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and
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. He has appeared on Radio 3 talking about classical music, one of his passions, and collaborated with composer David Sawer on ''Skin Deep'', an
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, which was premiered by Opera North on 16 January 2009. He has also presented three programmes for
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, including ''Mobiles Off!'', a 20-minute segment on classical concert-going etiquette. He was a regular columnist for the classical music magazine '' Gramophone''. A book of his writings about classical music ''Hear Me Out'' was published in 2017. In 2012 it was reported that he was writing his first novel, ''Tongue International'', a satirical fantasy about the promotion of a "for-profit language". In July 2023, Iannucci announced that he was working on a stage adaptation of
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's classic
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satire ''Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.'' Sean Foley (director), Sean Foley will direct, and Iannucci's longtime collaborator
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will be starring in multiple roles.


Film directing

In January 2009, his first feature film ''
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'', in the style of ''
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'', was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It was the first cinema film to be directed by Iannucci, after his contribution to ''Tube Tales'' in 1999. The film was applauded by critics, both in Britain and the US, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in 2009. The film secured the eighth highest placing in the UK box office in its opening week – despite its relatively insignificant screening numbers. His second feature film was '' The Death of Stalin'', about the power struggle which followed the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. It was released in October 2017 in the United Kingdom. The film was banned in Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan for allegedly mocking the countries' pasts and making fun of their leaders. However, it received a Magritte Award nomination in the category of Magritte Award for Best Foreign Film in Coproduction, Best Foreign Film and was a critical success. His third feature film was an adaptation of Charles Dickens's ''
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'' entitled '' The Personal History of David Copperfield''. It was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2020 and received critical acclaim.


Personal life

In 1990, he married Rachel Jones, whom he met when she designed the lighting for his one-man show at Oxford. They have two sons and one daughter and currently live in Hertfordshire. He is a former Patronage, patron of the Silver Star Society, a charity supporting women through difficult pregnancies. In April 2012, as part of his support for the Silver Star Society, he Abseiling, abseiled from the top of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford to raise money for the hospital's specialist pregnancy unit.


Politics

In the 2010 general election Iannucci supported the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats, stating: "I'll be voting Lib Dem this election because they represent the best chance in a lifetime to make lasting and fair change to how the UK is governed." After the Cameron–Clegg coalition, Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition of 2010 was established, however, he expressed doubts over his continued support for the party, saying he was 'wavering' on many issues and has admitted to 'queasiness' over the Coalition's economic measures. He also seemed to contemplate targeting the Liberal Democrats in the fourth series of ''The Thick of It'', rather as the first three had targeted what he perceived as the failings within the Labour Party (UK), Labour governments of Tony Blair and
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. In July 2018, Iannucci announced his support on Twitter for People's Vote, a campaign group calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal between the UK and the European Union. He also expressed these views the following month in an editorial in the ''Daily Mirror'', and they went on to be reported in other British newspapers.


Favourite films

In 2022, Iannucci participated in the ''Sight & Sound'' film polls of that year. It is held every ten years to select the List of films voted the best, greatest films of all time, by asking contemporary directors to select ten films of their choice. Iannucci's selections were: * ''2001: A Space Odyssey '' (1968) * ''The Godfather'' (1972) * ''The Battle of Algiers'' (1966) * ''The Great Dictator'' (1940) * ''Nashville (film), Nashville'' (1975) * ''Annie Hall'' (1977) * ''Alien (film), Alien'' (1979) * ''The Celebration, Festen'' (1998) * ''Ran (film), Ran'' (1985) * ''Monty Python's Life of Brian'' (1979)


Works


Film


Television


Radio

* iarchive:armandoiannuccisdownyourear/, ''Down Your Ear'' (BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio4 – creator, writer, producer) *'' On the Hour'' (
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– creator, co-writer, producer) * ''No' The Archie McPherson Show'' (BBC Radio Scotland – presenter, comedy sketch writer) * ''Bite The Wax'' (BBC Radio Scotland – presenter, comedy sketch writer) * ''Armando Iannucci'' (BBC Radio 1 – writer, presenter, producer) * ''The News Quiz'' (
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– producer, also appeared as guest) * ''Quote... Unquote'' (
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– producer) * ''Loose Talk (British TV series), Loose Talk'' (producer) * ''The Mary Whitehouse Experience'' (producer) * ''Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (radio series), Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge'' (producer) * ''The 99p Challenge'' on BBC Radio 4. * ''Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive'' on BBC Radio 4 * ''Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World'' as various characters. * ''Desert Island Discs –
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'' as a guest. Armando reveals how as a youngster he rebelled against his parents' "Classical Music listening ways" by playing Wagner. * ''Scraps With Iannucci'' a BBC Radio 4 series from 1998. * ''Week Ending'' (
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– producer) * ''Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast'' (several times as a guest) * ''The Unbelievable Truth (radio show), The Unbelievable Truth'' (
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– guest)


Bibliography


Books

* ''Facts and Fancies'' (Michael Joseph, 1997) * ''Alan Partridge: Every Ruddy Word All the Scripts: From Radio to TV. And Back'' by Steve Coogan, Peter Baynham, Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber (Michael Joseph, 2003) * ''The Thick of It: The Scripts'' by Jesse Armstrong, Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell (Hodder & Stoughton, 2007) * ''The Audacity of Hype: Bewilderment, Sleaze and Other Tales of the 21st Century'' (Little, Brown, 2009) * ''The Thick of It: The Missing DoSAC Files'' (Faber & Faber, 2010) * ''I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan'' by Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons, Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan (Harper Collins, 2011) * ''Hear Me Out: All My Music'' (Little, Brown, 2017)


Audiobooks

* ''Facts and Fancies'' (BBC Audiobooks, 1998) * ''I'm Alan Partridge: Knowing Me, Knowing Yule'' (BBC Audiobooks, 1998) * ''Knowing Me, Knowing You...: With Alan Partridge: Complete Series'' (BBC Audiobooks, 1995) CD , cassette


Interviews

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Honours and recognition

Iannucci has won two Radio Academy Awards, Sony Radio Awards and three British Comedy Awards. In 2003, he was listed in ''The Observer'' as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. He was also subject of a 2006 edition of ''The South Bank Show''. In January 2006 he was named News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at the
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, where he has delivered a series of four lectures under the title "British Comedy – Dead Or Alive?". In June 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by the
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to recognise his contribution to film and television. At the 2011 British Comedy Awards, Iannucci received the Writers' Guild of Britain Award. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting. Alastair Campbell's response to his appointment was "Three little letters can have more impact than you realise", to which Iannucci replied, via Twitter, "Weapon of mass destruction, WMD" (a reference to Campbell's role in preparing the "September Dossier" prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq). In July 2012 Iannucci received an honorary Doctorate (DLitt) from the University of Exeter. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 Birthday Honours for services to film and television.


Awards and nominations


See also

* List of British film directors * List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain * List of Primetime Emmy Award winners


Notes


References


External links


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