Adrian Edmondson
Biography
Adrian Edmondson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He went to Manchester University to study drama. Whilst he was there he met Rik Mayall, and the pair began performing as 20th Century Coyote. The act continued after university when Adrian & Rik moved to London, and they became two of the leading lights in the new 'alternative comedy' scene, performing at the newly established Comedy Store, and setting up their own club, The Comic Strip, with 'Peter Richardson', Nigel Planer, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Alexei Sayle. This spawned two 1980s TV series: The Young Ones (1982), and The Comic Strip Presents... (1982) In the 1990's Ade & Rik continued their partnership with a new series called Bottom (1991), which ran for three seasons and became a major success on the live circuit. It was basically a live sitcom, liberally sprinkled with slapstick humour, and the pair did 5 long tours between 1993 and 2003. Simultaneously, Adrian established himself as an actor, doing two improvised TV films under the Screen One and Screen Two umbrella, with director Les Blair: Screen Two: Honest, Decent and True (1986), and Screen One: News Hounds (1990) (winner of the BAFTA for best single drama). He was a regular in the hospital drama Holby City (1999) from 2005 - 2008. He took the lead in a drama documentary about the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in the series Surviving Disaster (2006), and appeared as Henry Austen in the TV movie Miss Austen Regrets (2008), the film Blood (2012), and the drama series Prey (2014). But his most notable dramatic role to date is that of Count Rostov in the BBC series War & Peace (2016).
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-01-24
Place of birth
Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Images
Cast
Guest House Paradiso
1999
6.06
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
8.60
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
1997
7.20
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
2001
7.40
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004
7.50
Miss Austen Regrets
2008
6.11
Bottom Live: The Stage Show
1993
7.90
The Supergrass
1985
6.04
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
5.20
Blood
2012
5.86
The Best of French & Saunders
2002
0.00
The Yob
1988
0.00
The Trick
2021
4.70
Dead on Time
1983
6.50
Les Dogs
1990
0.00
Demonella
1993
0.00
Summer School
1983
0.00
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982
0.00
Four Men in a Car
1998
0.00
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
0.00
War
1983
10.00
Four Men in a Plane
2000
0.00
The Beat Generation
1983
0.00
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983
0.00
Dirty Movie
1984
0.00
Susie
1984
0.00
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
0.00
Slags
1984
2.00
Private Enterprise
1986
0.00
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
0.00
Oxford
1990
0.00
Red Nose of Courage
1992
0.00
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993
0.00
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
0.00
Five Go to Rehab
2012
0.00
The Pope Must Die
1991
4.86
News Hounds
1990
0.00
Just Like That!
1989
0.00
Honest Decent & True
1986
0.00
Eat the Rich
1987
6.17
Bottom: Exposed
2024
5.50
The Comic Strip
1981
0.00
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
2008
6.17
Rocky Horror Show Live
2015
7.00
The Rizen
2017
4.90
The Strike
1988
7.00
Interlude In Prague
2017
5.79
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
6.76
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
2018
7.50
More Bad News
1988
9.80
Bad News
1983
8.70
The Rizen: Possession
2019
5.00
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
0.00
Completely Bad News
2019
0.00
Bottom Fluff
1996
0.00
King Rocker
2020
7.40
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984
7.00
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007
0.00
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987
0.00
The Man
1999
0.00
Britain Beware!
2012
0.00
The Best Birthday Ever
2022
6.71
Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches
2025
0.00
