Mr. Bean
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Introduction
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson CBE (conceived 6 January 1955) is an English entertainer, humorist, and author. He is most popular for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995). Atkinson initially came to noticeable quality in the BBC sketch satire show Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982), getting the 1981 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance, and through his interest in The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979). His other work incorporates the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), playing a blundering vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), voicing the red-charged hornbill Zazu in The Lion King (1994), and playing gems sales rep Rufus in Love Actually (2003). His work in the auditorium remembers the part of Fagin for the 2009 West End restoration of the melodic Oliver!.
Atkinson was recorded in The Observer as one of the 50 most interesting entertainers in British parody in 2007, and among the main 50 comics ever, in a 2005 survey of individual humorists. All through his vocation, he has worked together with screenwriter Richard Curtis and arranger Howard Goodall, both of whom he met at the Oxford University Dramatic Society during the 1970s. Notwithstanding his 1981 BAFTA, Atkinson got an Olivier Award for his 1981 West End theater execution in Rowan Atkinson in Revue. He has had realistic accomplishments with his exhibitions in the Mr. Bean film variations Bean (1997) and Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007), and furthermore in the Johnny English film arrangement (2003–2018). He additionally showed up as the nominal character in Maigret (2016–2017). Atkinson was designated a CBE in the 2013 Birthday Honors for administrations to dramatization and a good cause.
Early Life
Atkinson was brought into the world in Consett, County Durham, England, on 6 January 1955. The most youthful of four young men, his folks were Eric Atkinson, a rancher and friends chief, and Ella May (née Bainbridge), who wedded on 29 June 1945. His three more established siblings are Paul, who kicked the bucket as a baby; Rodney, a Eurosceptic business analyst who barely lost the UK Independence Party authority political decision in 2000; and Rupert.
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Atkinson was raised Anglican and was instructed at Durham Choristers School, a private academy, and afterward at St Bee's School. Rodney, Rowan, and their more established sibling Rupert were raised in Consett and went to class with the future Prime Minister, Tony Blair, at Durham Choristers. Subsequent to getting top evaluations in science A levels,[12] he got a spot at Newcastle University, where he got a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. In 1975, he proceeded for the level of MSc in Electrical Engineering at The Queen's College, Oxford, a similar school where his dad registered in 1935, and which made Atkinson an Honorary Fellow in 2006. His MSc postulation, distributed in 1978, considered the use of self-tuning control.
Atkinson momentarily set out on doctoral work prior to dedicating his complete consideration to acting. First winning public consideration in The Oxford Revue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 1976, he had effectively composed and performed outlines for shows in Oxford by the Etceteras – the revue gathering of the Experimental Theater Club (ETC) – and for the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS), meeting author Richard Curtis, and writer Howard Goodall, with whom he would keep on teaming up during his vocation.
Profession
Radio
Atkinson featured in a progression of satire shows for BBC Radio 3 of every 1979 called The Atkinson People. It comprised of a progression of mocking meetings with anecdotal incredible men, who were played by Atkinson himself. The arrangement was composed by Atkinson and Richard Curtis, and delivered by Griff Rhys Jones.
TV
After college, Atkinson did an oddball pilot for London Weekend Television in 1979 called Canned Laughter. Atkinson at that point proceeded to don't the Nine O'Clock News for the BBC, created by his companion John Lloyd. He highlighted in the show with Pamela Stephenson, Griff Rhys Jones, and Mel Smith, and was one of the principal sketch scholars.
The achievement of Not the Nine O'Clock News prompted him to play the lead job of Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder. The primary arrangement The Black Adder (1983), set in the middle age period, Atkinson co-composed with Richard Curtis. Following a three-year hole, partially because of budgetary concerns, a subsequent arrangement was communicated, composed by Curtis and Ben Elton. Blackadder II (1986) followed the fortunes of one of the relatives of Atkinson's unique character, this time in the Elizabethan period. A similar example was rehashed in the two additional continuations Blackadder the Third (1987), set in the Regency time, and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), set in World War I. The Blackadder arrangement got perhaps the best of all BBC circumstance comedies, producing TV specials including Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988), Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988), and later Blackadder: Back and Forth (1999), which was set at the turn of the Millennium. The last scene of "Blackadder Goes Forth" (when Blackadder and his men go "over the top" and dash into No-Man's-Land) has been depicted as "striking and exceptionally piercing". Having a sour mind and furnished with various speedy put-downs (which are frequently squandered on those at whom they are coordinated), in a 2001 Channel 4 survey Edmund Blackadder was positioned third (behind Homer Simpson from The Simpsons and Basil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers) on their rundown of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. During the 2014 centennial of the beginning of World War I, Conservative Party lawmaker Michael Gove and war antiquarian Max Hastings whined about the purported "Blackadder variant of history".
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Atkinson in 1997, advancing Bean. In 2014, youthful grown-ups from abroad named Mr. Bean among a gathering of individuals they most connected with British culture.
Atkinson's other creation, the hapless Mr. Bean, first showed up on New Year's Day in 1990 in a half-hour uncommon for Thames Television. The personality of Mr. Bean has been compared to an advanced Buster Keaton, however, Atkinson himself has expressed that Jacques Tati's character Monsieur Hulot was the fundamental motivation.
A few continuations of Mr. Bean showed up on TV until 1995, and the character later showed up in an element film. Bean (1997) was coordinated by Mel Smith, Atkinson's partner in Not the Nine O'Clock News. A subsequent film, Mr. Bean's Holiday, was delivered in 2007. Atkinson depicted Inspector Raymond Fowler in The Thin Blue Line (1995–96), a TV sitcom composed by Ben Elton, which happens in a police headquarters situated in invented Gasforth.
Atkinson has fronted lobbies for Kronenbourg, Fujifilm, and Give Blood. Atkinson showed up as a hapless and mistake-inclined reconnaissance specialist named Richard Lathum in a long-running arrangement of adverts for Barclaycard, on what character his lead spot 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, an uncommon Doctor Who sequential created for the cause pledge drive Comic Relief.
Atkinson showed up at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening function in London as Mr. Bean in an improv show during a presentation of "Chariots of Fire", playing a rehashed single note on synthesizer. He at that point slipped by into a fantasy succession wherein he joined the sprinters from the film of a similar name (about the 1924 Summer Olympics), beating them in their notable run along West Sands at St. Andrews, by riding in a minicab and stumbling the leader. Atkinson featured as Jules Maigret in Maigret, a progression of TV films from ITV.
Retirement of Mr. Bean Live
In November 2012, it arose that Rowan Atkinson proposed to resign Mr. Bean. "The stuff that has been most financially effective for me – essentially very physical, very whimsical – I progressively feel I will do significantly less of," Atkinson revealed to The Daily Telegraph's Review.
In October 2014, Atkinson likewise showed up as Mr. Bean in a TV advert for Snickers. In 2015, he featured close by Ben Miller and Rebecca Front in a sketch for BBC Red Nose Day in which Mr. Bean goes to a burial service.
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In October 2018, Atkinson (as Mr. Bean) got YouTube's Diamond Play Button for his channel outperforming 10 million supporters on the video stage. Among the most-watched diverts on the planet, in 2018 it had more than 6.5 billion perspectives. Mr. Bean is additionally among the most-followed Facebook pages with 94 million adherents in July 2020, "more than any semblance of Rihanna, Manchester United or Harry Potter".
Enlivened Mr. Bean
In January 2014, ITV declared another energized arrangement including Mr. Bean with Rowan Atkinson getting back to the job. It was required to be delivered online as a Web-arrangement later in 2014, as a transmission followed soon after.
On 6 February 2018, Regular Capital reported that there would be the fifth arrangement of Comprising of 26 scenes, the initial two portions, "Game Over" and "Unique Delivery", broadcasted on 29 April 2019 on CITV in the UK just as on Turner channels around the world. Every one of the five arrangement (104 scenes) were likewise offered to Chinese kids' direct CCTV-14 in February 2019.
Film
Atkinson's movie profession started with a supporting part in the "informal" James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983) and the main job in Dead on Time (additionally 1983) with Nigel Hawthorne. He was in the 1988 Oscar-winning short film The Appointments of Dennis Jennings. He showed up in Mel Smith's first time at the helm The Tall Guy (1989) and showed up close by Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling in The Witches (1990), a film variation of the Roald Dahl youngsters' novel. He filled the role of Dexter Hayman in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), a spoof of Rambo III, featuring Charlie Sheen.
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Atkinson acquired further acknowledgment as a verbally blundering vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994, composed and coordinated by his long-lasting partner Richard Curtis), and highlighted in Disney's The Lion King (likewise 1994) as the voice of Zazu the red-charged hornbill. He likewise sang the tune "I Just Can't-Wait to Be King" in The Lion King. Atkinson kept on showing up in supporting jobs in comedies, including Rat Race (2001), Scooby-Doo (2002), gems sales rep Rufus in another Richard Curtis British-set rom-com, Love Actually (2003), and the wrongdoing satire Keeping Mum (2005), which likewise featured Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, and Patrick Swayze.
Notwithstanding his supporting jobs, Atkinson has likewise had accomplishment as a main man. His TV character Mr. Bean appeared on the big screen with Bean (1997) to global achievement. A spin-off, Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007), (again roused somewhat by Jacques Tati in his film Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot), likewise turned into a global achievement. He has additionally featured in the James Bond spoof Johnny English film arrangement (2003–2018).
Personal Life
In March 2001, while Atkinson was on a vacation outing to Kenya, the pilot of his private plane swooned. Atkinson figured out how to keep up the plane noticeable all around until the pilot recuperated and had the option to set down the plane at Nairobi's Wilson Airport.
Marriage and kids
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Atkinson has been involved with comic Louise Ford since 2014, whom he met in 2013 when they acted in the West End play Quartermaine's Terms. She brought forth Atkinson's third youngster in December 2017. They at present split their time between Notting Hill and Highbury in London and Ipsden, Oxfordshire.
Cars
Atkinson holds a classification C+E (previously "Class 1") truck driving permit, acquired in 1981, in light of the fact that trucks held an interest for him, and to guarantee work as a youthful entertainer. He has additionally utilized this ability when shooting parody material. In 1991, he featured in himself wrote The Driven Man, a progression of portrayals highlighting Atkinson cruising all over London attempting to address his fixation on vehicles and talking about it with cabbies, police officers, utilized vehicle sales reps, and psychotherapists. An admirer of and member in vehicle hustling, he showed up as dashing driver Henry Birkin in the TV play Full Throttle in 1995.
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Atkinson dashing in a Jaguar Mark VII M at the Goodwood Revival engine hustling celebration in England in 2009
Atkinson has dashed in different vehicles, including a Renault 5 GT Turbo for two seasons for its one-make arrangement. From 1997 to 2015, he claimed an uncommon McLaren F1, which was engaged with a mishap in Cabus, close to Garstang, Lancashire, with an Austin Metro in October 1999. It was harmed again in a genuine accident in August 2011 when it burst into flames after Atkinson allegedly let completely go and hit a tree. That mishap made critical harm to the vehicle, assuming control longer than a year to be fixed and prompting the biggest protection payout in Britain, at £910,000. He has recently possessed a Honda NSX, an Audi A8, a Škoda Superb, and a Honda Civic Hybrid.
The Conservative Party government official Alan Clark, a fan of exemplary engine vehicles, recorded in his distributed Diaries a possibility meeting with a man he later acknowledged was Atkinson while passing through Oxfordshire in May 1984: "Soon after leaving the motorway at Thame I saw a dim red DBS V8 Aston Martin on the slip street with the hood up, a man miserably twisting around it. I advised Jane to pull in and strolled back. A DV8 in a tough situation is in every case useful for a brag." Clark composes that he gave Atkinson a lift in his Rolls-Royce to the closest payphone, yet was baffled in his boring response to being perceived, taking note of that: "he didn't shimmer, was fairly frustrating and chétif."
In July 2001, Atkinson slammed an Aston Martin V8 Zagato at an aficionados' gathering however left safe. This was while he was contending in the Aston Martin Owners Club occasion, at the Croft Racing Circuit, Darlington.
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One vehicle Atkinson has said he won't claim is a Porsche: "I object to Porsches. They're superb vehicles, however, I realize I would never live with one. Some way or another, the ordinary Porsche individuals – and I wish them no evil – are not, I feel, my sort of individuals."
In July 2011, Atkinson showed up 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 that point conceded him in front of the rest of the competition on the leaderboard, with just Matt LeBlanc having set a quicker time in the Cee'd.
Praises
Atkinson was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honors for administrations to show and noble cause.
Filmography
Primary article: Rowan Atkinson filmography
1979–1982: Not the Nine O'Clock News
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1983–1989: Blackadder
1983: Never Say Never Again
1988: The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
1989: The Tall Guy
1990–1995: Mr. Bean
1995–1996: The Thin Blue Line
1990: The Witches
1993: Hot Shots! Part Deux
1994: Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994: The Lion King
1997: Bean
2000: Maybe Baby
2001: Rat Race
2002: Scooby-Doo
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2003: Love Actually
2005: Keeping Mum
2007: Mr. Bean's Holiday
2011: Johnny English Reborn
2017: Huan Le Xi Ju Ren
2018: Johnny English Strikes Again
2021: "Man Vs Bee"
TBC: Untitled Animated Mr. Bean Film
Titles
Year Title Role Notes
1981 Rowan Atkinson in Revue Various roles Also author
Globe Theater
Rowan Atkinson in New Revue Various jobs
1984 The Nerd Willum Cubbert Aldwych Theater
1986 Rowan Atkinson at the Atkinson Various roles Also author
Creeks Atkinson Theater
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1988 The Sneeze Various roles Aldwych Theater
2009 Oliver! Fagin Drury Lane
2013 Quartermaine's Terms St. John Quartermaine Wyndham's Theater
Comedy king Mr. Bean
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