Russell Brand

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Russell Edward Brand (born June 4, 1975 in Grays , England ) is a British comedian, presenter, singer, actor, author and political activist.

Career

Brand's acting career began in 1994 when he appeared in a number of episodes on the British children's broadcaster CBBC's Mud . He later started working as a stand-up comedian. In 2000 he was hired by MTV , where he hosted a show until September 2001. He was released when he moved to the September 11 attacks in an Osama bin Laden nose cone appeared at work. He then lost a job at the radio station Xfm after reading from pornographic writings during a broadcast. From 2004 he moderated Big Brother accompanying programs for the digital channel E4 .

In 2006 he was named Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards for his stand-up program . In the same year he hosted the NME Awards . He got his own short-lived talk show on Channel 4 , The Russell Brand Show . From November 2006 he could be heard on the BBC radio program.

Brand was one of the presenters of the Live Earth concerts in London in 2007 . In the same year he published the autobiographical book My Booky Wook , in which he wrote, among other things, about his heroin addiction and which became a bestseller. In 2008 he stepped up his career in the United States : He was in the Hollywood comedy Never Again Sex With Your Ex , hosted the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles , where he was named by the American President George W. Bush when "retarded cowboy" caught attention, and he held a one-hour stand-up special on Comedy Central . In 2009 he again hosted the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in New York .

He quit the BBC in October 2008 after appearing together with Jonathan Ross on Brand's radio show caused public outrage. Brand and Ross had left actor Andrew Sachs , with whom a telephone interview had been arranged, several messages on the answering machine , in which they talked about, among other things, Brand's sexual relationship with Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie, which, thanks to extensive coverage by the British media, 42,000 Generated complaints to the BBC.

Since his films Never again sex with the ex and men's trip, Brand has been active as a singer in the film rock band Infant Sorrow under the name "Aldous Snow" . In January 2012 he was cast in the fantasy thriller The Hauntrepreneur .

In 2007 he published his autobiography "My Booky Wook", of which more than 600,000 books were sold. Booky Wook 2 was released in 2010.

Since 2009, Brand was in a relationship with the US singer Katy Perry . They were married on October 23, 2010 in Rajasthan, India . On December 30, 2011, Brand announced the divorce. The official reason for separation was "irreconcilable differences of opinion".

According to his own statement, Brand has not eaten meat since he was 14 and was completely vegetarian. Brand has been vegan since October 2011.

Brand practices Transcendental Meditation (TM) and Yoga . TM is an important part of his life ("Through Transcendental Meditation I feel the bliss of the divine twice a day ..... I connect to a limitless consciousness that has no noticeable relationship to my thoughts, fears or desires."), Why he campaigns for the David Lynch Foundation , which spreads TM in schools or among war veterans, for example.

Filmography (selection)

bibliography

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Name of Brand on Telegraph.co.uk (accessed June 23, 2010)
  2. ^ Maureen Coleman: Russell Brand to play stand-up gig at Waterfront , Belfast Telegraph, September 25, 2008
  3. ↑ Brand's profile at ComedyCentral.com , accessed November 10, 2008
  4. ↑ Phil Boucher: Russell Brand's 'retarded cowboy' jibe at George Bush shocks MTV audience ; Daily Mail , September 9, 2008
  5. ↑ Haroon Siddique: BBC Radio 2 broadcasts apology for 'grossly offensive' Brand-Ross prank , guardian.co.uk , November 8, 2008
  6. ^ Paramount and Platinum Dunes Find Their Hauntrepreneur in Russell Brand , Jan. 26, 2012
  7. ↑ Spiegel-online.de: "Russell Brand and Katy Perry split up" , accessed on December 31, 2011
  8. ↑ The Observer: "This charming man." , Accessed May 27, 2013
  9. ↑ Status on Twitter.com: “I'm now vegan, goodbye eggs, hello Ellen.” , Accessed on May 27, 2013
  10. ↑ BBC News "Russel Brand discusses the Dalai Lama" , accessed April 24, 2014
  11. ^ "Why Richard Dawkins is the best argument for the existence of God". New Statesman. , accessed April 24, 2014
  12. ↑ TM.org "Russell Brand finds TM helps deal with the stress of celebrity" , accessed April 24, 2014

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SURNAME Brand, Russell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brand, Russell Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British television and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Grays , England