Simon Bird
Simon Antony Bird (born August 19, 1984 in Guildford , England ) is an English actor , screenwriter and comedian . He became known through the role of Will McKenzie in E4's comedy series The Inbetweeners .
Childhood and youth
Bird was born to Heather (nee Gage) and Graham Bird, an economics professor at the University of Surrey at Guildford, Surrey . He attended the Royal Grammar School at Guildford before studying at Queens' College , Cambridge . Bird was a member of the Cambridge University Sketch group, Footlights . He is also a fan of the English football club Crystal Palace .
Career
Comedy beginnings
During his Masters in Cultural Studies (Cultural & Critical Studies) at Birkbeck College in London founded the Bird sketch comedy group The House of Windsor with Joe Thomas (Simon Cooper in The Inbetweeners plays) and Jonny Sweet . They participated in the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 and 2008 with the performance The Meeting , described as a site-specific comedy installation in a real boardroom that received national media attention. Bird and Thomas also appeared on the first and second seasons of The Weekly Show , a podcast on Channel 4 Radio (2006-2007).
Bird has also performed as a stand-up comedian and participated in the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Awards from 2005 to 2008, finishing second last year.
breakthrough
In 2008, Bird was cast as Will McKenzie on the British comedy series The Inbetweeners , along with Joe Thomas . In the same year he won a British Comedy Award for Best Male Comedy Whiz and a year later for Top Television Comedy Actor . He was also nominated for Best Comedy Performance at the Royal Television Society Awards in 2008 and for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Program at the 2009 BAFTA Awards.
Outside employment
In 2010 Bird created the comedy series The King Is Dead for BBC Three , in which a well-known person is hypothetically killed and 3 people fight for the vacated space in a series of satirical quizzes and tasks. He moderates alongside Nick Mohammed and Katy Wix .
Another Bird project is Friday Night Dinner , another Channel 4 comedy series written by Robert Popper , former producer of the Peep Show and co-creator of BBC Two's Look Around You . It is produced by Big Talk Productions ( Spaced ) and Popper Pictures. Each episode takes place on a Friday evening when the 20-year-old brothers Adam (Bird) and Jonny ( Tom Rosenthal ) visit their parents' house for the traditional Friday dinner. Although his role in Friday Night Dinner is a member of the Jewish family ( Friday dinner is a Jewish tradition), Bird is not Jewish himself.
Bird was also recently responsible for the pilot episode of the series Chickens was Channel 4, in which he co-wrote and himself played a role, again with Jonny Sweet and Joe Thomas. The series is about three men in England during the First World War .
He can also be seen again in the role of Will McKenzie in Sex on the Beach , which started on August 17, 2011 in the United Kingdom .
Filmography
actor
- 2008: Clone (TV series, episode 1x02)
- 2008–2010: The Inbetweeners (TV series, 18 episodes)
- 2011: Sex on the Beach (The Inbetweeners Movie)
- 2011: Comedy Showcase (TV series, episode 3x01)
- 2011–2013: Chickens (TV series, 7 episodes)
- since 2011: Friday Night Dinner (TV series)
- 2013: The Look of Love
- 2013: The Harry Hill Movie
- 2014: Sex on the Beach 2 (The Inbetweeners 2)
- 2015–2017: Drunk History: UK (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 2016: The Darkest Universe
- 2017: You, Me and Him
- since 2020: Sandylands (miniseries)
Director
- 2016: Ernestine & Kit (short film)
- 2019: Days of the Bagnold Summer
script
- 2010: Dead Ideas (short film)
- 2010: The King Is Dead (TV series)
- 2011: Comedy Showcase (TV series, episode 3x01)
- 2013: Chickens (TV series, 5 episodes)
Web links
- Simon Bird in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Professor Graham Bird. University of Surrey , accessed August 23, 2011 .
- ↑ Michael Deacon: Interview: Simon Bird and Joe Thomas on The Inbetweeners. The Daily Telegraph , March 27, 2009, accessed August 23, 2011 .
- ^ Brian Logan: Edinburgh festival: The Meeting. The Guardian , August 8, 2008, accessed August 23, 2011 .
- ^ Brian Donaldson: The Meeting. Edinburgh Festival , August 21, 2008, accessed August 23, 2011 .
- ↑ Simon Bird - Revels Chortle Student Comedy Awards 2007. YouTube , accessed August 23, 2011 .
- ↑ Simon Bird-Chortle Student Comedy Awards 2008 2. YouTube , accessed on August 23, 2011 (English).
- ↑ a b Past Winners 2008. British Comedy Awards , accessed on 23 August 2011 (English).
- ^ Past Winners 2009. British Comedy Awards , accessed August 23, 2011 .
- ^ Program Awards Winners 2008. (No longer available online.) Royal Television Society, archived from the original on February 8, 2015 ; accessed on 23 August 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Oliver Franklin: Simon Bird exclusive! (No longer available online.) GQ, March 4, 2011, archived from the original on March 7, 2011 ; accessed on 23 August 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bird, Simon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bird, Simon Antony (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English actor, screenwriter and comedian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th August 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guildford , England |