Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson CBE (born 6

January 1955) is an English actor,
comedian and writer. He is best known for
his work on the sitcoms Blackadder
(1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995).
Atkinson first came to prominence in the
BBC's sketch comedy show Not the Nine
O'Clock News (1979–1982), receiving the
1981 BAFTA for Best Entertainment
Performance, and via his participation in
The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979). His
other work includes the James Bond film
Never Say Never Again (1983), playing a
bumbling vicar in Four Weddings and a
Funeral (1994), voicing the red-billed
hornbill Zazu in The Lion King (1994), and
playing jewellery salesman Rufus in Love
Actually (2003). He also featured in the
BBC sitcom The Thin Blue Line (1995–
1996). His work in theatre includes the
2009 West End revival of the musical
Oliver!.
 Rowan Atkinson
CBE

Atkinson in 2011

Birth name Rowan Sebastian

Atkinson

Born 6 January 1955

Consett, County
Durham, England

Medium Stand-up, television,

film

Alma mater Newcastle University

 The Queen's College,
Oxford
Years active 1978–present

Spouse Sunetra Sastry

(m. 1990; div. 2015)

Partner(s) Louise Ford

(2014–present)[1]

Children 3

Relative(s) Rodney Atkinson

(brother)

Signature

Rowan Atkinson's voice

from the BBC programme Front Row

Interviews, 8 January 2012.[2]
Atkinson was listed in The Observer as one
of the 50 funniest actors in British comedy
in 2007,[3] and among the top 50
comedians ever, in a 2005 poll of fellow
comedians.[4] Throughout his career he
has collaborated with screenwriter Richard
Curtis and composer Howard Goodall,
both of whom he met at the Oxford
University Dramatic Society during the
1970s. In addition to his 1981 BAFTA, he
received an Olivier Award for his 1981
West End theatre performance in Rowan
Atkinson in Revue. He has also had
cinematic success with his performances
in the Mr. Bean movie adaptations Bean
(1997) and Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007), and
also in the Johnny English film series
(2003–2018). He also appears as the
titular character in Maigret (2016–2017).

Early life
Atkinson was born in Consett, County
Durham, England, on 6 January 1955.[5][6][7]

The youngest of four brothers, his parents

were Eric Atkinson, a farmer and company
director, and Ella May (née Bainbridge),
who married on 29 June 1945.[7] His three
older brothers are Paul, who died as an
infant; Rodney, a Eurosceptic economist
who narrowly lost the UK Independence
Party leadership election in 2000; and
Rupert.[8][9]

Atkinson was brought up Anglican,[10] and

was educated at Durham Choristers
School, a preparatory school, St Bees
School. After receiving top-grades in
science A' levels,[11] he secured a place at
Newcastle University, where he received a
degree in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering.[12] In 1975, he continued for
the degree of MSc in Electrical Engineering
at The Queen's College, Oxford, the same
college where his father matriculated in
1935,[13] and which made Atkinson an
Honorary Fellow in 2006.[14] His MSc
thesis, published in 1978, considered the
application of self-tuning control.[15]

Atkinson briefly embarked in doctoral work

before devoting his full attention to
acting.[16] First winning national attention
in The Oxford Revue at the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe in August 1976,[12] he had
already written and performed sketches
for shows in Oxford by the Etceteras — the
revue group of the Experimental Theatre
Club (ETC), and for the Oxford University
Dramatic Society (OUDS), meeting writer
Richard Curtis,[12] and composer Howard
Goodall, with whom he would continue to
collaborate during his career.
Career
Radio

Atkinson starred in a series of comedy

shows for BBC Radio 3 in 1979 called The
Atkinson People. It consisted of a series of
satirical interviews with fictional great
men, who were played by Atkinson
himself. The series was written by
Atkinson and Richard Curtis, and produced
by Griff Rhys Jones.[17]

Television
After university, Atkinson did a one-off
pilot for London Weekend Television in
1979 called Canned Laughter. Atkinson
then went on to do Not the Nine O'Clock
News for the BBC, produced by his friend
John Lloyd. He featured in the show with
Pamela Stephenson, Griff Rhys Jones and
Mel Smith, and was one of the main
sketch writers.

The success of Not the Nine O'Clock News

led to him taking the lead role of Edmund
Blackadder in Blackadder. The first series
The Black Adder (1983), set in medieval
period, Atkinson co-wrote with Richard
Curtis. After a three-year gap, in part due
to budgetary concerns, a second series
was broadcast, written by Curtis and Ben
Elton. Blackadder II (1986) followed the
fortunes of one of the descendants of
Atkinson's original character, this time in
the Elizabethan era. The same pattern was
repeated in the two more sequels
Blackadder the Third (1987), set in the
Regency era, and Blackadder Goes Forth
(1989), set in World War I. The Blackadder
series became one of the most successful
of all BBC situation comedies, spawning
television specials including Blackadder's
Christmas Carol (1988), Blackadder: The
Cavalier Years (1988), and later Blackadder:
Back & Forth (1999), which was set at the
turn of the Millennium. The final scene of
"Blackadder Goes Forth" (when Blackadder
and his men go "over the top" and charge
into No-Man's-Land) has been described
as "bold and highly poignant".[18]
Possessing an acerbic wit and armed with
numerous quick put-downs (which are
often wasted on those at whom they are
directed), in a 2001 Channel 4 poll Edmund
Blackadder was ranked third (behind
Homer Simpson from The Simpsons and
Basil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers) on their
list of the 100 Greatest TV
Characters.[19][20] During the 2014
centennial of the start of World War I,
Conservative Party politician Michael Gove
and war historian Max Hastings
complained about the so-called
"Blackadder version of history".[21][22][23]

Atkinson in 1997, promoting Bean. In 2014, young

adults from abroad named Mr. Bean among a group of
people they most associated with British culture.[24]

Atkinson's other creation, the hapless Mr.

Bean, first appeared on New Year's Day in
1990 in a half-hour special for Thames
Television. The character of Mr. Bean has
been likened to a modern-day Buster
Keaton,[25] but Atkinson himself has stated
that Jacques Tati's character Monsieur
Hulot was the main inspiration.[26]

Several sequels to Mr. Bean appeared on

television until 1995, and the character
later appeared in a feature film. Bean
(1997) was directed by Mel Smith,
Atkinson's colleague in Not the Nine
O'Clock News. A second film, Mr. Bean's
Holiday, was released in 2007. Atkinson
portrayed Inspector Raymond Fowler in
The Thin Blue Line (1995–96), a television
sitcom written by Ben Elton, which takes
place in a police station located in
fictitious Gasforth.

Atkinson has fronted campaigns for

Kronenbourg,[27] Fujifilm, and Give Blood.
Atkinson appeared as a hapless and error-
prone espionage agent named Richard
Lathum in a long-running series of adverts
for Barclaycard, on which character his
title role in Johnny English, Johnny English
Reborn and Johnny English Strikes Again
was based. In 1999, he played the Doctor
in The Curse of Fatal Death, a special
Doctor Who serial produced for the charity
telethon Comic Relief.[28] Atkinson
appeared as the Star in a Reasonably
Priced Car on the BBC's Top Gear in July
2011, driving the Kia Cee'd around the
track in 1:42.2. Placing him at the top of
the leaderboard, his lap time was
significantly quicker than the previous
high-profile record holder Tom Cruise,
whose time was a 1:44.2.[29]

Atkinson appeared at the 2012 Summer

Olympics opening ceremony in London as
Mr. Bean in a comedy sketch during a
performance of "Chariots of Fire", playing a
repeated single note on synthesizer.[30] He
then lapsed into a dream sequence in
which he joined the runners from the film
of the same name (about the 1924
Summer Olympics), beating them in their
iconic run along West Sands at St.
Andrews, by riding in a minicab and
tripping the front runner.[31] Atkinson
starred as Jules Maigret in Maigret, a
series of television films from ITV.[32]

Retirement of Mr. Bean Live

In November 2012, it emerged that Rowan

Atkinson intended to retire Mr. Bean. "The
stuff that has been most commercially
successful for me — basically quite
physical, quite childish — I increasingly feel
I'm going to do a lot less of," Atkinson told
The Daily Telegraph's Review. "Apart from
the fact that your physical ability starts to
decline, I also think someone in their 50s
being childlike becomes a little sad. You've
got to be careful."[33] He has also said that
the role typecast him to a degree.[34]
Despite these comments, Atkinson said in
2016 that he would never retire the
character of Mr. Bean.[35]

In October 2014, Atkinson also appeared

as Mr. Bean in a TV advert for Snickers. In
2015, he starred alongside Ben Miller and
Rebecca Front in a sketch for BBC Red
Nose Day in which Mr. Bean attends a
funeral.
In 2017, he appeared as Mr. Bean in the
Chinese film Huan Le Xi Ju Ren.[36] In
October 2018, Atkinson (as Mr. Bean)
received YouTube's Diamond Play Button
for his channel surpassing 10 million
subscribers on the video platform. Among
the most-watched channels in the world, in
2017 it had more than 4.5 billion views.[37]

Animated Mr. Bean

In January 2014, ITV announced a new

animated series featuring Mr. Bean with
Rowan Atkinson returning to the role. It
was expected to be released online as a
Web-series later in 2014, as a television
broadcast followed shortly after.[38]

On 6 February 2018, Regular Capital

announced that there would be a Season 5
of the Animated Mr Bean in 2019 (voiced
by Atkinson). The first episode, Teddy's
King, aired in February 2019.[39]

Following yet another 3-year hiatus, a fifth

season consisting of 26 episodes is
scheduled to premiere in 2019 on CITV as
well as on Turner channels
worldwide.[40][41]

Film
Atkinson's film career began with a
supporting part in the "unofficial" James
Bond movie Never Say Never Again (1983)
and a leading role in Dead on Time (also
1983) with Nigel Hawthorne. He was in the
1988 Oscar-winning short film The
Appointments of Dennis Jennings. He
appeared in Mel Smith's directorial debut
The Tall Guy (1989) and appeared
alongside Anjelica Huston and Mai
Zetterling in The Witches (1990), a film
adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's
novel. He played the part of Dexter
Hayman in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), a
parody of Rambo III, starring Charlie
Sheen.
Atkinson gained further recognition with
his turn as a verbally bumbling vicar in
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994, written
and directed by his long time collaborator
Richard Curtis), and featured in Disney's
The Lion King (also 1994) as the voice of
Zazu the red-billed hornbill. He also sang
the song “I Just Can't Wait to Be King” in
The Lion King. Atkinson continued to
appear in supporting roles in comedies,
including Rat Race (2001), Scooby-Doo
(2002), jewellery salesman Rufus in
another Richard Curtis British-set romantic
comedy, Love Actually (2003), and the
crime comedy Keeping Mum (2005), which
also starred Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie
Smith, and Patrick Swayze.

In addition to his supporting roles,

Atkinson has also had success as a
leading man. His television character Mr.
Bean debuted on the big screen with Bean
(1997) to international success. A sequel,
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007), also became an
international success. He has also starred
in the James Bond parody Johnny English
film series (2003–2018).

Theatre
Rowan Atkinson performed live on-stage
skits — also appearing with members of
Monty Python — in The Secret Policeman's
Ball (1979) in London for Amnesty
International.[42] Atkinson undertook a
four-month tour of the UK in 1980. A
recording of the stage performance was
subsequently released as Live in Belfast.

In 1984, Atkinson appeared in a West End

version of the comedy play The Nerd
alongside a 10-year-old Christian Bale.[43]
The Sneeze and Other Stories, seven short
Anton Chekhov plays, translated and
adapted by Michael Frayn, were performed
by Rowan Atkinson, Timothy West and
Cheryl Campbell at the Aldwych Theatre,
London in 1988 and early 1989.[44]

Oliver! billboard at the West End's Theatre Royal, Drury

Lane in 2009.

In 2009, during the West End revival of the

musical Oliver! based on Charles Dickens'
novel Oliver Twist, Atkinson played the role
of Fagin.[45] His portrayal and singing of
Fagin at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in
London gained favourable reviews and he
was nominated for an Olivier Award for
best actor in a musical or
entertainment.[46]

On 28 November 2012, Rowan Atkinson

reprised the role of Blackadder at the "We
are Most Amused" comedy gala for The
Prince's Trust at the Royal Albert Hall in
London. He was joined by Tony Robinson
as Baldrick. The sketch involved the first
new Blackadder material for 10 years, with
Blackadder as CEO of Melchett, Melchett
and Darling bank facing an enquiry over
the banking crisis.[47]
In February 2013, Atkinson took on the
titular role in a 12-week production
(directed by Richard Eyre) of the Simon
Gray play Quartermaine's Terms at
Wyndham's Theatre in London with
costars Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones)
and Felicity Montagu (I'm Alan
Partridge).[48] In December 2013, he
revived his schoolmaster sketch for Royal
Free Hospital's Rocks with Laughter at the
Adelphi Theatre.[49] A few days prior, he
performed a selection of sketches in a
small coffee venue in front of only 30
people.[50]

Comic style
Best known for his use of physical comedy
in his Mr. Bean persona, Atkinson's other
characters rely more on language.
Atkinson often plays authority figures
(especially priests or vicars) speaking
absurd lines with a completely deadpan
delivery.

One of his better-known comic devices is

over-articulation of the "B" sound, such as
his pronunciation of "Bob" in the
Blackadder II episode "Bells". Atkinson
suffers from a stammer,[51] and the over-
articulation is a technique to overcome
problematic consonants.
Atkinson's often visually based style,
which has been compared to that of
Buster Keaton,[25] sets him apart from
most modern television and film comics,
who rely heavily on dialogue, as well as
stand-up comedy which is mostly based
on monologues. This talent for visual
comedy has led to Atkinson being called
"the man with the rubber face"; comedic
reference was made to this in an episode
of Blackadder the Third ("Sense and
Senility"), in which Baldrick (Tony
Robinson) refers to his master, Mr. E.
Blackadder, as a "lazy, big-nosed, rubber-
faced bastard".
Influences
Atkinson's early comedy influences were
the sketch comedy troupe Beyond the
Fringe, made up of Peter Cook, Dudley
Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett,
major figures of the 1960s British satire
boom, and then Monty Python. Atkinson
states, “I remember watching them avidly
as students at university.”[52] He continued
to be influenced by the work of John
Cleese following his Monty Python days,
regarding Cleese as being “a major, major
inspiration”, adding, “I think that he and I
are quite different in our style and our
approach, but certainly it was comedy I
liked to watch. He was very physical. Yes,
very physical and very angry.”[52] He was
also influenced by Peter Sellers, whose
characters Hrundi Bakshi from The Party
(1968) and Inspector Clouseau from The
Pink Panther films influenced Atkinson's
characters Mr. Bean and Johnny
English.[53]

On Barry Humphries' Dame Edna Everage,

he states, “I loved that character – again,
it's the veneer of respectability disguising
suburban prejudice of a really quite vicious
and dismissive nature.”[52] Of visual
comedians, Atkinson regards Charlie
Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd
as influential.[52] He was also inspired by
French comedian Jacques Tati, stating,
“Mr. Hulot's Holiday I remember seeing
when I was 17 – that was a major
inspiration. He opened a window to a
world that I'd never looked out on before,
and I thought, "God, that's interesting," how
a comic situation can be developed as
purely visual and yet it's not under-cranked,
it's not speeded-up, it's more deliberate; it
takes its time. And I enjoyed that.”[52]

Personal life
Rowan Atkinson at the Mr. Bean's Holiday premiere at
Leicester Square in London (2007)

In March 2001, while Atkinson was on a

holiday trip to Kenya, the pilot of his
private plane fainted. Atkinson managed
to maintain the plane in the air until the
pilot recovered and was able to land the
plane at Nairobi's Wilson Airport.[54]

Marriage and children

Rowan Atkinson married Sunetra Sastry in
February 1990. They have two children,
Ben and Lily.[55] The couple first met in the
late 1980s, when she was working as a
makeup artist with the BBC.[56] They
separated in 2014 and were divorced on
10 November 2015.[57] Atkinson has been
in a relationship with comedian Louise
Ford since 2014; she gave birth to
Atkinson's third child in December 2017.[1]

Political activism

In June 2005, Atkinson led a coalition of

the United Kingdom's most prominent
actors and writers, including Nicholas
Hytner, Stephen Fry, and Ian McEwan, to
the British Parliament in an attempt to
force a review of the controversial Racial
and Religious Hatred Bill, which they felt
would give overwhelming power to
religious groups to impose censorship on
the arts.[58] In 2009, he criticized
homophobic speech legislation, saying
that the House of Lords must vote against
a government attempt to remove a free
speech clause in an anti-gay hate law.[59]
Atkinson opposed the Serious Organised
Crime and Police Act 2005 to outlaw
inciting religious hatred, arguing that,
"freedom to criticise ideas — any ideas
even if they are sincerely held beliefs — is
one of the fundamental freedoms of
society. And the law which attempts to say
you can criticise or ridicule ideas as long
as they are not religious ideas is a very
peculiar law indeed."[60][61]

In October 2012, he voiced his support for

the Reform Section 5 campaign,[62] which
aims to reform or repeal Section 5 of the
Public Order Act 1986, particularly its
statement that an insult can be grounds
for arrest and punishment. It is a reaction
to several recent high-profile arrests, which
Atkinson sees as a restriction of freedom
of expression.[63] In February 2014
Parliament passed a redaction of the
statute which removed the word insulting
following pressure from citizens.[64][65]

Cars

Atkinson holds a category C+E (formerly

"Class 1") lorry driving licence, gained in
1981, because lorries held a fascination
for him, and to ensure employment as a
young actor. He has also used this skill
when filming comedy material. In 1991, he
starred in the self-penned The Driven Man,
a series of sketches featuring Atkinson
driving around London trying to solve his
obsession with cars, and discussing it with
taxi drivers, policemen, used-car salesmen
and psychotherapists.[66] A lover of and
participant in car racing, he appeared as
racing driver Henry Birkin in the television
play Full Throttle in 1995.

Atkinson racing in a Jaguar Mark VII M at the

Goodwood Revival motor racing festival in England in
2009

Atkinson has raced in other cars, including

a Renault 5 GT Turbo for two seasons for
its one make series. From 1997 to 2015,
he owned a rare McLaren F1, which was
involved in an accident in Cabus, near
Garstang, Lancashire, with an Austin Metro
in October 1999.[67] It was damaged again
in a serious crash in August 2011 when it
caught fire after Atkinson reportedly lost
control and hit a tree.[68][69] That accident
caused significant damage to the vehicle,
taking over a year to be repaired and
leading to the largest insurance payout in
Britain, at £910,000.[70] He has previously
owned a Honda NSX,[71] an Audi A8,[72] a
Škoda Superb, and a Honda Civic
Hybrid.[73]

The Conservative Party politician Alan

Clark, a devotee of classic motor cars,
recorded in his published Diaries a chance
meeting with a man he later realized was
Atkinson while driving through Oxfordshire
in May 1984: "Just after leaving the
motorway at Thame I noticed a dark red
DBS V8 Aston Martin on the slip road with
the bonnet up, a man unhappily bending
over it. I told Jane to pull in and walked
back. A DV8 in trouble is always good for a
gloat." Clark writes that he gave Atkinson a
lift in his Rolls-Royce to the nearest
telephone box, but was disappointed in his
bland reaction to being recognised, noting
that: "he didn't sparkle, was rather
disappointing and chétif."[74]
In July 2001, Atkinson crashed an Aston
Martin V8 Zagato at an enthusiasts'
meeting, but walked away unhurt. This
was while he was competing in the Aston
Martin Owners Club event, at the Croft
Racing Circuit, Darlington.[75]

One car Atkinson has said he will not own

is a Porsche: "I have a problem with
Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I
know I could never live with one.
Somehow, the typical Porsche people —
and I wish them no ill — are not, I feel, my
kind of people."[73][76]
In July 2011, Atkinson appeared as the
"Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" on Top
Gear, driving the Kia Cee'd around the track
in 1:42.2, which at the time granted him
first place on the leaderboard, with only
Matt LeBlanc having set a faster time in
the Cee'd.[71]

Honours

Atkinson was appointed Commander of

the Order of the British Empire in the 2013
Birthday Honours for services to drama
and charity.[77][78]

Filmography
Film
Year Title Role Notes

1982 Fundamental Frolics Himself Short film

1983 Dead on Time Bernard Fripp Short Film

1983 Never Say Never Again Nigel Small-Fawcett

The Appointments of Dennis

1988 Dr. Schooner Short Film
Jennings

1989 The Tall Guy Ron Anderson

1990 The Witches Mr. Stringer

1993 Hot Shots! Part Deux Dexter Hayman

Four Weddings and a

1994 Father Gerald
Funeral

1994 The Lion King Zazu Voice

1997 Bean Mr. Bean Also executive Producer

2000 Maybe Baby Mr. James

2001 Rat Race Enrico Pollini

2002 Scooby-Doo Emile Mondavarious

Nominated — European Film Award

2003 Johnny English Johnny English
for Best Actor

2003 Love Actually Rufus

Reverend Walter
2005 Keeping Mum
Goodfellow

2007 Mr. Bean's Holiday Mr. Bean

2011 Johnny English Reborn Johnny English

2017 Huan Le Xi Ju Ren Mr. Bean Cameo

Johnny English Strikes

2018 Johnny English Also producer
Again
Television
 Year Title Role Notes

1979 Canned Laughter Robert Box Pilot; also writer

The Secret Policeman's

1979 Himself Television special
Ball

1979– Not the Nine O'Clock

Various roles 28 episodes; also writer
1982 News

1980 Peter Cook & Co Various roles Television special

The Innes Book of

1980 1 episode
Records

The Secret Policeman's

1981 Various roles Television special
Other Ball

6 episodes; also co-

1983 The Black Adder Prince Edmund Plantagenet
creator and writer

1986 Blackadder II Edmund, Lord Blackadder 6 episodes

1986 Saturday Live Himself (host) 1 episodes

1987 Blackadder the Third Edmund Blackadder 6 episodes

Blackadder: The
1988 Sir Edmund Blackadder Television short
Cavalier Years

Blackadder's Christmas
1988 Ebenezer Blackadder Television special
Carol

1989 Blackadder Goes Forth Captain Edmund Blackadder 6 episodes

1990– 15 episodes; also co-

Mr. Bean Mr. Bean
1995 creator and writer

1991 Bernard and the Genie Bernard's Boss Television film

Television documentary;
1991 The Driven Man Himself
also writer

Television special; also

1992 Rowan Atkinson Live Himself
writer

1992 Funny Business Kevin / Narrator 6 episodes; also writer

1992 A Bit of Fry & Laurie Guest 1 episode

1992 Laughing Matters Himself (host) Television documentary

1995 Full Throttle Captain Henry "Tim" Birkin Television biography

1995–
The Thin Blue Line Inspector Raymond Fowler 14 episodes
1996

Blackadder: Back & Lord Blackadder / King Edmund III /

1999 Television film
Forth Centurion Blaccadius

Doctor Who: The Curse

1999 The Doctor Television special
of Fatal Death

2001 Popsters Nasty Neville Television short

2002–
2004 Voice
Mr. Bean Mr. Bean
2015– Also executive producer
present

Lying to Michael
2003 Martin Bashir Television short
Jackson

2005 Spider-Plant Man Peter Piper/Spider-Plant Man Television short

2010 Bondi Rescue Mr. Bean 1 episode

The Olympics Opening

2012 Mr. Bean Television special
Ceremony

Live from Lambeth

2013 The Archbishop of Canterbury Television special
Palace sketches

2015 Horrible Histories Henry VIII of England 1 episode

2016–
Maigret Jules Maigret 4 episodes
2017

2017 Red Nose Day Actually Rufus Television short

One Red Nose and a

2019 Father Gerald Television short
Wedding

Television advertisements
 Year Title Role

1980 Kronenbourg 1664 Customs officer

1983 Appletiser Fisherman

1989 Give Blood Doctor

1991–1997 Barclaycard Richard Latham

1994 REMA 1000 Mr. Bean

1997 M&M's Mr. Bean

1999 Nissan Tino Mr. Bean

2014 Snickers[79] Mr. Bean

2018 Etisalat[80] Agent One

Music video appearances

Year Title Role

Olly Murs "Moves"[A]

2018 As a Bartender
(featuring Snoop Dogg)[81]

A. "Moves" also features on the Johnny

English Strikes Again OST.

Stage
Year Title Role Notes

Also writer
1981 Rowan Atkinson in Revue Various roles
Globe Theatre

Rowan Atkinson in New Revue Various roles

1984 The Nerd Willum Cubbert Aldwych Theatre

Also writer
1986 Rowan Atkinson at the Atkinson Various roles
Brooks Atkinson Theatre

1988 The Sneeze Various roles Aldwych Theatre

2009 Oliver! Fagin Drury Lane

2013 Quartermaine's Terms St. John Quartermaine Wyndham's Theatre

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