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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).

Sam & Ade Go Birding

Alien: Earth
as Atom Eins

Bergerac
as Nigel

Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
as Phil

Bottom: Exposed
as Himself

3 Body Problem
as Denys Porlock

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
as Self

Toad & Friends
as Toad

A Spy Among Friends
as Sir Roger Hollis

The Best Birthday Ever
as Granny (voice)

The Trick
as Edward Acton

The Pact
as Richard

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
as Self

King Rocker
as Self (archive footage)

Out of Her Mind
as Lewis

Between the Covers
as Self

Completely Bad News
as Vim Fuego

The Rizen: Possession
as The Interviewer

Back to Life
as John Boback

Cheat
as William Vaughan

Celebrity Catchphrase
as Self - Contestant

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

Save Me
as Gideon Charles

RSC Live: Twelfth Night
as Malvolio

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Captain Peavey

Bancroft
as Superintendent Cliff Walker

Richard Osman's House of Games
as Self - Contestant

Interlude in Prague
as Herr Luptak

The Rizen
as Interviewer

Genius
as David Hilbert

Urban Myths
as Leslie Conn

One of Us
as Peter Elliot

Upstart Crow
as Dogberry

War and Peace
as Ilya Rostov

Rocky Horror Show Live
as Narrator

Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
as Noodle Pete (voice, English version)

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
as Self

Prey
as DCI Warner

Ade at Sea
as Self

Catchphrase

Gadget Man

Five Go to Rehab
as Dick

Blood
as Tom Tiernan

Britain Beware!
as Self (Presenter)

The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
as Headmaster Wackville

The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
as Self - Contestant

Ade in Britain

Death in Paradise
as Charles Crabtree
Monte Carlo or Bust

Let's Dance for Comic Relief
as Self - Contestant

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
as Self - Baron von Richthoven (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rocky Horror Tribute Show
as Brad

Teenage Kicks

Miss Austen Regrets
as Henry Austen

The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision
as Sir Adrian Dangerous

If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
as Self (Narrator)

The Making of 'The Young Ones'
as Self (Archived Footage)
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self

Would I Lie to You?
as Self

Britain's Got More Talent
as Self