Richard Ayoade

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Richard Ayoade (2011)

Richard Ayoade (born June 12, 1977 in London , England ) is a British comedian , writer , actor and director .

Life

Ayoade's father is from Nigeria and his mother from Norway . He went to Ipswich in the county of Suffolk to school and later studied law at St Catharine's College of the University of Cambridge , where he became president of the local theater club Footlights was.

Together with Matthew Holness , Ayoade wrote the comedy Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight , in which he also appeared in 2000. He received a Perrier Comedy Award for co- writing and starring in the subsequent play on Fright Knight , Garth Marenghi's Netherhead . In 2004, Ayoade and Holness brought the main character in the parody Garth Marenghi's Darkplace on TV on Channel 4 , in which Ayoade also starred. Ayoades character from Dark Place ( Dean Learner ) was 2006 for the comedy - talk show Man to Man with Dean Learner (Channel 4). The different guests were played by Holness.

Ayoade was the co-writer, director and actor on the rock opera AD / BC: A Rock Opera , which appeared on BBC Three in 2004 . In 2005 he played Ned Smanks on the sitcom Nathan Barley .

Ayoade gained greater fame, also beyond Great Britain, through his role in the comedy series The IT Crowd , of which four seasons were filmed and broadcast in Germany and Austria on Comedy Central . There he plays Maurice Moss , who is brilliant at handling technology, but socially underdeveloped.

He directed the music videos Fluorescent Adolescent , Crying Lightning and Cornerstone for the Arctic Monkeys and Run Away for the Super Furry Animals . He also directed Standing Next To Me and My Mistakes Were Made For You for the Last Shadow Puppets , Oxford Comma and Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa for Vampire Weekend, Vlad the Impaler for Kasabian (with Noel Fielding ) and Heads Will Roll for Yeah Yeah Yeahs . In 2008 Ayoade was nominated for Best Director for the UK Music Video Awards and the following year he won the NME Award .

Richard Ayoade made his debut as a film director in 2010 with the Dramedy Submarine . He also directed the 19th episode of the second season ( Critical Film Studies ) of the US sitcom community . In the fall of 2012 he starred alongside Ben Stiller , Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill in the movie The Watch - Neighbors of the 3rd Kind .

Filmography

As an actor
As a director
As a screenwriter

Web links

Commons : Richard Ayoade  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait of Ayoade at guardian.co.uk , accessed January 15, 2010
  2. ↑ Richard Ayoade wins at NME Awards , accessed January 15, 2010
  3. ↑ http://de.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yne9x/i_am_dan_harmon_creator_of_community_writer_of/c5x5o2g
  4. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/102086-Neighborhood-Watch.html
personal data
SURNAME Ayoade, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British comedian, car, actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK