Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson was born on Jan 06, 1955 in UK. Rowan Atkinson's big-screen debut came with The Innes Book of Records - Season 1 directed by Andrew Gosling in 1979, strarring 1 episode, 1980. Rowan Atkinson is known for Red Nose Day Actually directed by Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson stars as Rufus and Alexis Lynne Baumert as Star Wars Girl. Rowan Atkinson has got 12 awards and 18 nominations so far. The most recent award Rowan Atkinson achieved is Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards, UK. The upcoming new movie Rowan Atkinson plays is Wonka which will be released on Dec 15, 2023.

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson was born on 6 January, 1955, in Consett, Co. Durham, UK, to Ella May (Bainbridge) and Eric Atkinson. His father owned a farm, where Rowan grew up with his two older brothers, Rupert and Rodney. He attended Newcastle University and Oxford University where he earned degrees in electrical engineering. During that time, he met screenwriter Richard Curtis, with whom he wrote and performed comedy revues.Later, he co-wrote and appeared in Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979), which was a huge success and spawned several best-selling books. It won an International Emmy Award and the British Academy Award for "Best Light Entertainment Programme of 1980." He won the "British Academy Award" and was named "BBC Personality of the Year" for his performance in Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979).Atkinson also appeared in several movies, including Dead on Time (1983), Pleasure at Her Majesty's (1976) (aka "Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe"), Jamais plus jamais (1983), and The tall guy (1989). He played "Mr. Bean" in the TV series, Mr. Bean (1990) but, apart from that and Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979), he also appeared in several other series like La vipère noire (1982) and Funny Business (1992), etc.Atkinson enjoys nothing more than fast cars. He has two children, named Benjamin and Lily, with ex-wife Sunetra Sastry.