Matthew Charles Berry (born 2 May 1974) is an English actor, comedian, musician, and writer. Noted for his distinctive voice, he is best known for his television roles in comedy series such as ''
The IT Crowd
''The IT Crowd'' is a British television sitcom originally broadcast by Channel 4, created, written, and directed by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry. Set in th ...
'', ''
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'', ''
The Mighty Boosh'', ''
Snuff Box
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'',
''What We Do in the Shadows'', ''
Krapopolis'', and ''
Toast of London'', the last of which he also co-created and scored.
For ''Toast of London'', Berry won one
BAFTA Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme. For ''What We Do in the Shadows'', he has been nominated for one
and two
Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He has also released 11 studio albums, the vast majority of which are categorised as
psychedelic rock
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and
folk music
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.
Early life
Matthew Charles Berry
was born on 2 May 1974 in
Bromham, Bedfordshire
Bromham is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England, situated around west of Bedford, England, Bedford town centre.
Name
Bromham (Bruneham in Domesday) is probably the enclosed m ...
, the son of nurse Pauline (née Acreman) and taxi driver Charles Berry.
In 1999, he graduated from
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a public research university located in Nottingham, England. Its origins date back to 1843 with the establishment of the Nottingham School of Design, Nottingham Government School of Design, which still opera ...
with a
BA in Contemporary Arts.
Career
Film and television
Between 1998 and 1999, Berry appeared in the video game magazine show ''Game Over'' on
BSkyB
Sky UK Limited (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited (BSkyB)), trading as Sky, is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television, broadband internet, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers ...
's computer and technology channel
.tv.
Berry's first prominent television role was
Todd Rivers/Lucien Sanchez in the cult 2004 comedy series ''
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'' and its 2006 spin-off, ''
Man to Man with Dean Learner''. He later appeared as eccentric, sinister tycoon
Dixon Bainbridge in ''
The Mighty Boosh''. He met the show's
Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt Pettifer (born 4 May 1968) is an English comedian, actor and musician. As a comedian and comic actor, he is known for his use of surreal humour and black comedy. During the 2000s he was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe along ...
and
Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding (; born 21 May 1973) is an English comedian, artist, and actor. He was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside Julian Barratt in the 2000s, and has been a co-presenter of ''The Great British Bake Off'' since 2017. He is kn ...
while performing at the
Hen and Chickens Theatre, where they were resident in 2000. He can be seen in a cameo performance in ''The Mighty Boosh Live'' DVD.
After meeting
Rich Fulcher while filming ''The Mighty Boosh'', Berry wrote and starred in the comedy series ''
Snuff Box
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'' with him on
BBC Three
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. Fulcher had co-starred as Bainbridge's lackey
Bob Fossil in ''The Mighty Boosh''. Berry also starred with Fulcher and
Simon Farnaby
Simon Farnaby (born 2 April 1973) is an English actor, comedian, children’s entertainer, writer and singer. He is best known for his work with the Them There collective where he has written and starred in productions including the sketch show ...
on
E4's ''The Golf War'' in November 2007.
In 2007, Berry joined ''
The IT Crowd
''The IT Crowd'' is a British television sitcom originally broadcast by Channel 4, created, written, and directed by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry. Set in th ...
'' during its second series as
Douglas Reynholm. He was nominated as Best Male Comedy Newcomer in the 2007
British Comedy Awards
The National Comedy Awards (known as the British Comedy Awards from 1990 to 2014) is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom, celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.
The British Comedy Awards (1 ...
for the role.
In 2008, he became the face of
Adult Swim
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's spoof charity appeal "Save the Workers".
In 2010, Berry played journalist Michael Duffy in the
BBC
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production ''
Five Daughters'', about events surrounding the Ipswich murders of 2006. In 2011, he provided the voice of Allen in the ''
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
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'' episode "
Allen Part Two". He appeared in the British comedy panel game ''
Shooting Stars'', portraying
Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (, ; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis ( ; , ), was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He composed ...
. He appeared as an antiques expert in the
ITV sketch show ''
Monkey Trousers'' with
Vic and Bob and
Steve Coogan
Stephen John Coogan (; born 14 October 1965) is an English-Irish actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer. His accolades include four BAFTA Awards and three British Comedy Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Aw ...
.
Berry appeared in a number of films during this period, including ''
The Devil's Chair'' (2006) and ''
Moon
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'' (2009). He starred in ''The Search'' (2009), a short film about "a lonely man's search for the existence of life outside our universe takes a remarkable turn when he connects with a recently bereaved family".
In 2012, BBC Radio 4 aired his comedy series ''I, Regress'', where he portrayed Dr. Berry, a brilliant but unorthodox regressive therapist. In each 15-minute episode, Berry explored the psyche of a guest patient, attempting to treat their problems in surreal dreamlike sequences. Berry appeared in the film adaptation of the
David Nicholls novel ''
One Day'' as Aaron, Dexter's agent. He was briefly featured in the closing ceremony of the
London 2012 Olympics
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, introducing
ELO's "
Mr. Blue Sky" by way of a mock weather forecast.
In July 2012, he appeared as vainglorious actor Steven Toast in the pilot episode of
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded en ...
sitcom ''
Toast of London'', co-written with
Arthur Mathews. Notwithstanding mixed reviews, a series was commissioned, and the first episode was broadcast on 20 October 2013, and it brought Berry the 2015 BAFTA Award for Best Male Comedy Performance. In 2015, Berry and Arthur Mathews published ''Toast on Toast: Cautionary Tales and Candid Advice'', a spoof autobiography of Steven Toast. It was released as an audiobook read by Berry.
Berry played the title character in the 2013 ''
Portlandia'' episode "Squiggleman". Co-creators
Fred Armisen
Fereydun Robert Armisen (born December 4, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, musician, and writer. With his comedy partner Carrie Brownstein, he co-created and co-starred in the IFC sketch comedy series '' Portlandia''. He also co-created ...
and
Carrie Brownstein
Carrie Rachel Brownstein (born September 27, 1974) is an American musician, actress, writer, director, and comedian. She first came to prominence as a member of the band Excuse 17 before forming the rock trio Sleater-Kinney.
During a long hiatu ...
included the appearance on a list of their "proudest musical moments" from the show.
From 2014 to 2015, Berry co-starred in the
BBC 2
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's second flagship channel, and it covers a wide range of subject matter, incorporating genres such as comedy, drama and d ...
series ''
House of Fools'', written by and starring
Reeves and Mortimer. He portrayed Beef, "the highly sexual, flamboyant and blindly confident friend of Vic and Bob" who "will seduce anything in a skirt".
Berry appeared in episode nine of the sixth season of
Dan Harmon
Daniel James Harmon (born January 3, 1973) is an American television writer and producer. He is best known as the creator and producer of the NBC sitcom ''Community (TV series), Community'' (2009–2015), creator and host of the comedy podcast ' ...
's television series ''
Community
A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...
'', released on
Yahoo Screen on 5 May 2015. In December 2015, he played Professor Awfulshirt in ''Harry Hill in Professor Branestawm Returns'' on
BBC One
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.
Since 2019, Berry has starred in the FX
TV adaptation of the film ''
What We Do in the Shadows'' as Laszlo, one of four vampires living in
Staten Island
Staten Island ( ) is the southernmost of the boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York (state), New York. The borough is separated from the ad ...
.
It was renewed for a second season in May 2019, and began airing in April 2020. The third season aired in September 2021. In an interview with collider.com, Berry said, "It's different and it's very free. The scripts are starting points and then we go from there. That's how I like to work, anyway. So, for me, it was perfect. That's my background, improvisation. It was home for me in that department."
In 2019, Berry starred in the IFC/Channel 4 sitcom
''Year of the Rabbit''. Set in Victorian London, he plays the alcoholic Detective Inspector Rabbit. On 11 February 2020, the series was renewed for a second series of six episodes. Citing budget cuts caused by the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, Channel 4 reversed their decision in January 2021, casting doubt on the show's future. Layla Smith, chief executive of the show's production company
OMG, said "''Year of the Rabbit'' is a victim of the devastating effects of COVID.
..IFC are very committed to the show, but we will need to find another partner — and we're working on that."
In April 2020, BBC Two commissioned Berry for a
mockumentary
A mockumentary (a portmanteau of ''mock'' and ''documentary'') is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events, but presented as a Documentary film, documentary. Mockumentaries are often used to analyze or comment on current event ...
series titled ''Squeamish About ...'' The four quarter-hour specials would be cowritten by Berry and
Arthur Mathews and star Berry as Michael Squeamish. The series uses a combination of archive footage and voiceover to produce a surreal perspective on the episodes' subject.
In 2021, after the second series of ''Year of the Rabbit'' was axed, Berry was commissioned by the BBC to make a "Steven Toast in America" series. The show was a six-part television programme for BBC One, broadcast under the title ''
Toast of Tinseltown'' and co-written by Berry and Arthur Mathews.
Voice acting
Berry voiced Bubbles, an inter-dimensional dolphin, in the 2015 SpongeBob SquarePants film sequel, ''
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water''. That year, he also voiced the main villainess, The Butt Witch, in ''
Twelve Forever'', a series pilot created by Julia Vickerman for
Cartoon Network
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that was released on its website on 18 May 2015. The show was moved to
Netflix
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in December 2017. From 2015 to 2016, Berry narrated ''Matt Berry Does ...'', a series of comedy shorts for the BBC. He provided the voice of Prince Merkimer in
Matt Groening
Matthew Abram Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. He is best known as the creator of the television series ''The Simpsons'' (1989–present), ''Futurama'' (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2 ...
's animated series ''
Disenchantment
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'', which premiered in 2018 on
Netflix
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.
Berry's distinctive voice has seen him providing many voiceovers for both radio and television advertising, including for
Volvic (as the voice of George the Volcano),
The Natural Confectionery Company (voicing various characters alongside
Rupert Degas), Fridge Raiders, and
Moneysupermarket.com
MONY Group plc, trading as Money Supermarket, is a British company which specialises in technology-led money-saving platforms including several Comparison shopping website, price comparison websites. The company enables consumers to compare pri ...
. He has been in the sketch show ''
The Wrong Door'' as a recurring bit-part character who runs into a
snooker hall
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and shouts "stop playing snooker!" before whispering an implied impossible wager to one of the players and completing an infeasible
trick shot. In 2012, he worked with
Team17
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on their video game title ''
Worms Revolution'', providing voiceover, as fictional wildlife documentary maker Don Keystone, for both the game and the video advertisements produced for it.
In 2014, Berry read out the team sheets at
Luton Town FC before the game. In 2015, he provided the voice for a satirical anti-war film by the UK branch of
Veterans for Peace called ''Action Man: Battlefield Casualties''. In 2019, he provided the voice of
Moominpappa in the Finnish animated children's series ''
Moominvalley
Moominvalley (, ) is a fictional place, where the Moomins live in the tales by Finnish author Tove Jansson.
Especially in the early books Moominvalley is depicted as a beautiful place with green slopes, rivers, fruit trees, flowers and a pla ...
''. He provided the voice for the torture droid 8D8 in the 2021 ''Star Wars'' television series ''
The Book of Boba Fett''.
In 2023, Berry narrated a short segment in an episode of ''
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
''Last Week Tonight with John Oliver'' (often abridged as ''Last Week Tonight'') is an American news satire late-night talk show hosted by comedian John Oliver. The half-hour-long show premiered in the end of April 2014 on HBO and currently has ...
'' about freight trains titled 'The Sad Tale of Henry the Engine', a spoof of the ''
Thomas & Friends
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'' television series. In 2024, he voiced Chester Arborday in the
season 35 episode of ''
The Simpsons
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'', "Lisa Gets an F1".
In 2025, he provided the human voice of Nitwit in ''
A Minecraft Movie''.
Music
Berry composed all the music for ''Snuff Box'' and ''Toast of London'', as well as the music for ''
AD/BC: A Rock Opera'', which he co-wrote with
Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade ( ; born 23 May 1977) is a British comedian, actor, writer, director and presenter. He played the role of socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom ''The IT Crowd'' (2006–2013), for which he won the 2014 Br ...
. ''AD/BC'' was a half-hour parody of overblown musicals in general and ''
Jesus Christ Superstar
''Jesus Christ Superstar'' is a sung-through rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. Loosely based on the Life of Jesus in the New Testament, Gospels' accounts of Passion of Jesus, the Passion, the work interprets ...
'' in particular, telling the story of the innkeeper who allowed Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus to sleep in his stable. ''AD/BC'' was broadcast in December 2004 and featured Fulcher and ''Mighty Boosh'' stars
Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt Pettifer (born 4 May 1968) is an English comedian, actor and musician. As a comedian and comic actor, he is known for his use of surreal humour and black comedy. During the 2000s he was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe along ...
and
Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding (; born 21 May 1973) is an English comedian, artist, and actor. He was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside Julian Barratt in the 2000s, and has been a co-presenter of ''The Great British Bake Off'' since 2017. He is kn ...
. Berry performed a song for an episode of ''Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'', "One Track Lover", a spoof of cheesy romantic 1980s songs.
Berry wrote music for the
BBC 2
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's second flagship channel, and it covers a wide range of subject matter, incorporating genres such as comedy, drama and d ...
Steve Coogan
Stephen John Coogan (; born 14 October 1965) is an English-Irish actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer. His accolades include four BAFTA Awards and three British Comedy Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Aw ...
comedy ''
Saxondale'' and appeared in the first and third episodes of the second series of the show. He composed the theme song for the
Channel 4
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sketch show ''Blunder''. He is also credited on ''
The Peter Serafinowicz Show
''The Peter Serafinowicz Show'' is a British sketch comedy show written by and starring Peter Serafinowicz. Its debut was on 4 October 2007 at 21:30 on BBC Two as part of the newly launched "Thursdays Are Funny" brand on the channel and Thursd ...
''.
Berry is friends with musical composer Dan McGrath and contributed to the ''
Strictly Come Dancing
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'' theme song by playing guitar and providing the audible "Hey".
Berry has recorded 11 studio albums: ''Jackpot'' (1995), ''
Opium
Opium (also known as poppy tears, or Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the seed Capsule (fruit), capsules of the opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum''. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid mor ...
'' (self-released 2008), ''
Witchazel'' (self-released 2009, re-released 2011), ''
Kill the Wolf'' (2013), ''Music for Insomniacs'' (2014),
''The Small Hours'' (2016), ''
Television Themes'' (2018), ''
Phantom Birds'' (2020), ''The Blue Elephant'' (2021), and ''
Heard Noises'' (2025). The most recent five have been released on
Eddie Piller's
Acid Jazz Records. In 2017, a "companion piece" to ''The Small Hours'' was released, ''Night Terrors,'' featuring remixes by artists such as
Saint Etienne. Berry stated in the first issue of ''Bearded'' in 2007 that he was producing and collaborating on new material with 1960s soul singer
Geno Washington and would record an album. It was ''Witchazel'', which Berry originally released as a one-day-only free download in March 2009. It was later released as a CD and paid-for digital download.
Berry has toured with a number of bands including Jonas 3 and The Maypoles. The latter comprises former
Bluetones singer
Mark Morriss and singer/clarinettist Cecilia Fage. Rich Fulcher has joined Berry on stage for several appearances.
Geno Washington has joined him onstage at London gigs for encores of the ''Snuff Box'' theme.
In October 2007, Berry provided a new track, "Cream Pie", to ''Bearded'' for readers to download free, followed by a cover of the
Blur song "
Sing
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" in November 2007. "Cream Pie" is still available to supporters of Beardaid.
Until 2010, Berry presented a show on Absolute Radio, where he still performs various voiceovers and was described as "the voice of Absolute Radio".
In 2015, Berry was the opening act for
Steven Wilson
Steven John Wilson (born 3 November 1967) is an English musician. He is the founder, guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter of the rock band Porcupine Tree, as well as being a member of several other bands, including Blackfield, Storm Corrosi ...
's second
Royal Albert Hall
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Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres ...
concert.
In July 2018, Berry released the album ''
Television Themes'' on
Acid Jazz Records, featuring covers of famous retro TV themes such as ''
Sorry!'', ''
Doctor Who
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'' and ''
Rainbow
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''. It became his first UK Top 40 album chart hit.
In 2019, Berry was revealed as one of the contributing artists on
The Desert Sessions album ''
Vols. 11 & 12''. He co-wrote, narrated, and played the organ on the track "Chic Tweetz".
In October 2020, Berry's album ''
Phantom Birds'' (also issued by Acid Jazz) made the UK albums chart and eclipsed the number 38 peak of ''Television Themes'' by reaching number 31. In December 2020, he appeared in
Gorillaz
Gorillaz are an English virtual band created by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett in London, England in 1998. The band primarily consists of four fictional members: (vocals, keyboards), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar), Noodle (gui ...
's live-streamed concert ''
Song Machine
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Live'', performing the narration for the spoken-word song "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" from the album ''
Demon Days
''Demon Days'' is the second studio album by the British virtual band Gorillaz. It was released on 11 May 2005 in Japan, 23 May 2005 in the United Kingdom by Parlophone, and 24 May 2005 in the United States by Virgin Records.
The album continu ...
''. On 14 May 2021, Berry released his ninth studio album ''The Blue Elephant'' through Acid Jazz. In 2023, he released his 10th studio album ''Simplicity''. His 11th studio album ''
Heard Noises'' was released on 24 January 2025 through Acid Jazz.
The song "Take My Hand" from Berry's album ''Witchazel'' (2009), which first became known as the opening theme for his comedy series ''Toast of London'' (2012–2015), garnered new interest when it was used as the closing credits theme of the
Netflix
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documentary miniseries ''
American Murder: Gabby Petito'' in February 2025. In the two weeks following the airing of the series, the song was streamed in the U.S. over 579,000 times, representing a 1,505% increase in the song's streaming activity.
Music videos
Berry starred in the video for the
Super Furry Animals song "
Run-Away" (2007), directed by
Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade ( ; born 23 May 1977) is a British comedian, actor, writer, director and presenter. He played the role of socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom ''The IT Crowd'' (2006–2013), for which he won the 2014 Br ...
. Other appearances include the videos for "Reset" (2011) by London-based experimental band
Three Trapped Tigers and "What Are You Like" (2017) by Irish band
Pugwash.
Personal life
In contrast to the boisterous and unhinged characters he is known for playing, Berry has been noted as intensely shy and introverted; he rarely discusses his private life in interviews and avoids promotional events unless he is contractually obliged to attend them.
His
social media
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profiles are dedicated solely to updates on his work. He was seen having dinner and partying all night in
Soho
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with actress
Charlie Brooks in 2016, but the pair did not comment on the tabloid reports and no more updates were ever given.
Berry previously lived in
London
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, but confirmed in an April 2017 interview with ''
The i Paper'' that he had recently "moved to somewhere with a bit more space" before asking the interviewer not to name the place in the article.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
Discography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
*
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BBC biographyMatt Berryat the
British Film Institute
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1974 births
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English male actors
Acid Jazz Records artists
Actors from the Borough of Bedford
Alumni of Nottingham Trent University
Best Male Comedy Performance BAFTA Award (television) winners
Comedians from Bedfordshire
English male comedians
English male film actors
English male television actors
English male television writers
English male voice actors
English soap opera writers
English television producers
English television writers
Living people
Male actors from Bedfordshire
British television show creators
20th-century English male musicians
21st-century English male musicians