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Rowan
Atkinson
Comedian,
writer, actor
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| Name |
Rowan
Atkinson |
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1955
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Post-graduate
student studying for a science degree at The Queen's College,
during that time he met screenwriter Richard Curtis, with
whom he wrote and performed comedy revues.
Rowan
Atkinson first demonstrated an ability to entertain when he
joined the Oxford Revue.
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| Achievements |
He
made his big-screen debut in 1983's unofficial James Bond
picture Never Say Never Again. Despite this film receiving
mixed reports, he would continue to juggle TV and film roles.
In
1997 Bean came to the big screen, and Scooby Doo topped the
US box office in 2002.
As
a long-time collaborator with writer Richard Curtis, he has
regularly contributed to Comic Relief. He even played the
9th Doctor, in the 1999 Doctor Who spoof The Curse Of Fatal
Death.
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Atkinson
enjoys nothing better than fast cars.
He has been married to Sunetra Sastry since 1990 and they
have two children, named Benjamin and Lily.
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