Richard Ayoade
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
- 2003: Hello Friend
- 2003–2007: The Mighty Boosh (TV series)
- 2004: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (TV series)
- 2004: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
- 2004: AD / BC: A Rock Opera
- 2005: Nathan Barley (TV series)
- 2005: Festival
- 2006: Man to Man with Dean Learner (TV series)
- 2006: Time Trumpet (TV series)
- 2006: Snuff Box (TV series)
- 2006–2010, 2013: The IT Crowd (TV series)
- 2009: Bunny and the Bull
- 2011: Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy (TV series)
- 2012: Never Mind the Buzzcocks (TV series)
- 2012: The Watch - Neighbors of the 3rd Kind (The Watch)
- 2014: The Boxtrolls ( The Boxtrolls , voice)
- 2017: Paddington 2
- 2018: Early Man - Stone Age Ready ( Early Man , voice)
- 2019: The Souvenir
- 2019: The LEGO Movie 2 (The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part)
- As a director
- As a screenwriter
- 2010: Submarine
- 2014: The Double
Web links
- Richard Ayoade in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Portrait of Ayoade at guardian.co.uk , accessed January 15, 2010
- ↑ Richard Ayoade wins at NME Awards , accessed January 15, 2010
- ↑ http://de.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yne9x/i_am_dan_harmon_creator_of_community_writer_of/c5x5o2g
- ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/102086-Neighborhood-Watch.html
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ayoade, Richard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British comedian, car, actor and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1977 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England , UK |