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词条 Simon Bird
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

     Early comedy career  Breakthrough  Subsequent work 

  3. Personal life

  4. Filmography

     Film  Television 

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Use British English|date=August 2011}}{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}{{Infobox person
| name = Simon Bird
| image = Simon Bird, 2010.jpg
| caption = Bird at the Bafts TV Awards 2010
| birth_name = Simon Antony Bird[1]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1984|08|19}}
| birth_place = Guildford, Surrey, England
| signature = Simon Bird.jpeg
| occupation = Actor, Comedian
| spouse = {{marriage|Lisa Owens|2012}}
| yearsactive = 2000–present
| alma mater = Queens’ College, Cambridge
Birkbeck, University of London
| children = 2
|}}

Simon Antony Bird (born 19 August 1984) is an English actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Will McKenzie in The Inbetweeners and Adam Goodman in the Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner.

Early life

Bird was born in Guildford, Surrey, as the third of four children[2] of Claremont McKenna College Professor Graham Bird and Heather (née Gage).[3]

Bird was educated at Cranmore School, West Horsley, the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he read English.[4] At Cambridge, Bird was the President of the Footlights, the university's sketch and theatrical group.[5]

Career

Early comedy career

While completing an MA in cultural and critical studies at Birkbeck College, Bird set up the sketch comedy group "The House of Windsor" with former Footlights contemporaries Joe Thomas (who plays Simon Cooper in The Inbetweeners) and Jonny Sweet.[6] They performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 and in 2008 with a show called The Meeting, described as a site-specific comedy installation set in an actual boardroom, which received national media attention and a clutch of five-star reviews.{{citation needed|date=February 2011}} Bird and Thomas were also regulars on series 1 and 2 of The Weekly Show, a podcast for Channel 4 Radio (2006–07).

Bird also performs stand-up comedy and took part in Chortle's national student comedy awards in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, coming second in his final attempt. (He was a finalist in 2006, and was disqualified for deliberately breaking the rules in 2007.)[7][8]

Breakthrough

In 2008, Bird was cast in E4's teen comedy The Inbetweeners as Will McKenzie, along with Joe Thomas.[9] He won the 2008 British Comedy Award for Best Male Newcomer[10] and the 2009 British Comedy Award for Best Actor.[11] He was also nominated for Best Comedy Performance at the 2008 Royal Television Society Awards,[12] and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme at the 2009 BAFTA Awards.[10]

Subsequent work

In 2010 Bird created a BBC Three comedy panel show The King Is Dead, in which a well-known person is hypothetically killed off and a panel of three personalities go head-to-head in a series of satirical quiz rounds and challenges in their bid to replace them. He hosted alongside Nick Mohammed and Katy Wix.

Another of Bird's projects is Friday Night Dinner, a single-camera comedy written by Robert Popper and made by Big Talk Productions.[13]

Bird returned to the character of Will McKenzie in The Inbetweeners Movie which was released on 17 August 2011. In 2014 he portrayed Will McKenzie in the second movie about the Inbetweeners, The Inbetweeners 2.

Bird has co-created, co-written, and co-starred in a pilot, "Chickens", for Channel 4, alongside Jonny Sweet and Joe Thomas. It is about three men who remain in England during World War I. It was broadcast as part of Channel 4's Comedy Showcase season. In 2012, Sky One picked up a six episode season; filming began in late 2012 and the series premiered in summer 2013.[14]

In 2015, Bird voiced thetrainline.com TV advertisements.

As of 2017, he was starring on the West End in The Philanthropist, alongside Charlotte Ritchie.

In 2017 it was revealed Bird would direct his first feature film, Days of Bagnold Summer, which has been backed by Creative England and the British Film Institute.

Personal life

Of his choice of career, Bird states that, "I never came into this industry to be an actor. I wanted to be a comedian. All the people I love are being themselves – like Larry David", and that his parents wish for him to complete his Ph.D..[15] Bird is a Crystal Palace fan.

In 2012 Bird married Lisa Owens; they met at Cambridge University when they took part in a sketch about a couple rowing. Bird proposed to Owens in Paris and they married a year later.

Their first child, a daughter, was born in 2016. They kept it a secret for 6 months and then Bird accidentally revealed it in an interview.[16][17]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2011 The Inbetweeners Movie Will McKenzie
2013 The Look of Love Jonathan Hodge
The Harry Hill Movie Ed
2014 The Inbetweeners 2 Will McKenzie
2016 Ernestine & Kit Short film; director
2018 You, Me and Him Ben Miller

Television

Year Title RoleNotes
2008–2010 The Inbetweeners Will McKenzie 18 episodes
British Comedy Award Best Male Comedy Newcomer (2008)
British Comedy Award Best TV Comedy Actor (2009)
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Role (2010)
2010 The King is Dead Himself (Host) 7 episodes; also creator and writer
2011 Comedy Showcase Cecil Episode: "Chickens"
2011–present Friday Night Dinner Adam Goodman 31 episodes
2013 Chickens Cecil 6 episodes; also creator and writer
2015–2016 UK D.I. Charles Buggy / Winston Churchill 2 episodes
2019 Fwends Reunited Himself 1 episode (special)

References

1. ^Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1984-2004.; ancestry.com
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/mr-bird-is-not-amused--simon-gets-serious-8196222.html|title=Mr Bird is not amused - Simon gets serious|first=Laura|last=Barton|date=5 October 2012|work=London Evening Standard}}
3. ^{{cite news|author=Gerald|title=Simon Bird: 'Danger with The Inbetweeners is that it will no longer be believable that we are under the age of 40'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/simon-bird-danger-with-the-inbetweeners-is-that-it-will-no-longer-be-believable-that-we-are-under-the-age-of-40}}{{Dead link|date=December 2014}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/tv-radio/simon-bird-on-friday-night-dinner-and-why-his-awkward-persona-isn-t-all-an-act-1-2564972|title=Simon Bird on Friday Night Dinner, and why his awkward persona isn't all an act|first=Alice|last=Wyllie|date=7 October 2012|work=The Scotsman}}
5. ^{{cite news|last=Deacon|first=Michael|title=Interview: Simon Bird and Joe Thomas on The Inbetweeners|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5061210/Interview-Simon-Bird-and-Joe-Thomas-on-The-Inbetweeners.html|newspaper=Telegraph|date=27 March 2009}}
6. ^{{cite web|last1=Sweet|first1=Jonny|title=House of Windsor|url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/shows/edinburgh_fringe_2007/h/15523/house_of_windsor|accessdate=18 December 2014}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfBW-6CT11U|title=Simon Bird - Revels Chortle Student Comedy Awards 2007|first=|last=ChortleUK|date=1 March 2007|publisher=|via=YouTube}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Tnr2yI85Q|title=Simon Bird- Chortle Student Comedy Awards 2008 2|first=|last=ChortleUK|date=27 February 2008|publisher=|via=YouTube}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.e4.com/inbetweeners/about.html|title=The Inbetweeners - All 4|publisher=}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.britishcomedyawards.com/past-winners/2008.aspx|title=The British Comedy Awards - The British Comedy Awards|publisher=}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.britishcomedyawards.com/past-winners/2009.aspx|title=The British Comedy Awards - The British Comedy Awards|publisher=}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rts.org.uk/winners-rpa?term_node_tid_depth%3D122 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=25 January 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208210837/http://www.rts.org.uk/winners-rpa?term_node_tid_depth=122 |archivedate=8 February 2015 |df= }}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2011-03/04/gq-tv-simon-bird-interview-friday-night-dinner-the-inbetweeners-movie-film |accessdate=5 March 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307175814/http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2011-03/04/gq-tv-simon-bird-interview-friday-night-dinner-the-inbetweeners-movie-film|title=Simon Bird exclusive!|archivedate=7 March 2011 }}
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://sky1.sky.com/chickens/inbetweeners-stars-simon-bird-joe-thomas-to-star-in-chickens|title=Watch|publisher=}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-08-22/chickens-inbetweeners-simon-bird-and-joe-thomas-on-playing-overgrown-schoolboys---again|title=Chickens: Inbetweeners Simon Bird and Joe Thomas on playing overgrown schoolboys – again|first=Claire|last=Webb|date=22 August 2013|publisher=Radio Times}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/crystal-palace-vs-brighton-and-hove-albion |title=Crystal Palace vs Brighton & Hove Albion |first=James |last=Buckley |publisher=www.shortlist.com |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6HhEslkOe?url=http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/crystal-palace-vs-brighton-and-hove-albion |archivedate=27 June 2013 |df= }}
17. ^{{cite web|author=Michael Hogan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/26/simon-bird-west-end-the-philanthropist-inbetweeners-friday-night-dinner-interview |title=Simon Bird: '16 weeks in the West End… I feel absolutely terrified' | Culture |publisher=The Guardian |date=26 March 2017 |accessdate=26 May 2017}}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|3020713}}
  • Digital Spy - Simon Bird, James Buckley (The Inbetweeners)
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090406060542/http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/entertainment/2008/05/01/meet_the_inbetweeners Virgin Media - Meet the Inbetweeners]
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