Adrian Edmondson
Acting
1957-01-24 · Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
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).
Filmography
TheatersRik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard
2026 · Movie
TheatersRik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen
2026 · Movie
Sam & Ade Go Birding
2026 · Series
Partridge and Moulding Want To Get Laid
2026 · Movie
Alien: Earth
2025 · Series
Bergerac
2025 · Series
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
2024 · Series
Bottom: Exposed
2024 · Movie
3 Body Problem
2024 · Series
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023 · Movie
Toad & Friends
2023 · Series
A Spy Among Friends
2022 · Series
The Best Birthday Ever
2022 · Movie
The Trick
2021 · Movie
The Pact
2021 · Series
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021 · Movie
King Rocker
2020 · Movie
Out of Her Mind
2020 · Series
Between the Covers
2020 · Series
Completely Bad News
2019 · Movie
The Rizen: Possession
2019 · Movie
Back to Life
2019 · Series
Cheat
2019 · Series
Celebrity Catchphrase
2018 · Series
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018 · Movie
Save Me
2018 · Series
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
2018 · Movie
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017 · Movie
Bancroft
2017 · Series
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017 · Series
Interlude in Prague
2017 · Movie
The Rizen
2017 · Movie
Genius
2017 · Series
Urban Myths
2017 · Series
One of Us
2016 · Series
Upstart Crow
2016 · Series
War and Peace
2016 · Series
Rocky Horror Show Live
2015 · Movie
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014 · Series
Prey
2014 · Series
Ade at Sea
2014 · Series
Catchphrase
2013 · Series
Gadget Man
2012 · Series
Five Go to Rehab
2012 · Movie
Blood
2012 · Movie
Britain Beware!
2012 · Movie
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012 · Series
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012 · Series
Ade in Britain
2011 · Series
Death in Paradise
2011 · Series
Monte Carlo or Bust
2010 · Series
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
2009 · Series
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008 · Movie
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
2008 · Movie
Teenage Kicks
2008 · Series
Miss Austen Regrets
2008 · Movie
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
2007 · Movie
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007 · Movie
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 · Series
Would I Lie to You?
2007 · Series
Britain's Got More Talent
2007 · Series
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
The One Show
2006 · Series
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
2006 · Movie
School's Out
2006 · Series
Great British Menu
2006 · Series
Surviving Disaster
2006 · Series
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005 · Movie
Twisted Tales
2005 · Series
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004 · Movie
Doctors and Nurses
2004 · Series
Celebrity Mastermind
2003 · Series
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour
2003 · Movie
Spine Chillers
2003 · Series
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
2003 · Series
The Best of French & Saunders
2002 · Movie
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
2001 · Movie
Mirrorball
2000 · Movie
Four Men in a Plane
2000 · Movie
Guest House Paradiso
1999 · Movie
Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live
1999 · Movie
The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'
1999 · Movie
The Man
1999 · Movie
Holby City
1999 · Series
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
1998 · Movie
Four Men in a Car
1998 · Movie
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
1997 · Movie
Captain Star
1997 · Series
Jonathan Creek
1997 · Series
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Series
Bottom Fluff
1996 · Movie
Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour
1995 · Movie
Look at the State We're In!
1995 · Series
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
1995 · Movie
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994 · Movie
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994 · Series
If You See God, Tell Him
1993 · Series
Bottom Live: The Stage Show
1993 · Movie
Demonella
1993 · Movie
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993 · Movie
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993 · Movie
Absolutely Fabulous
1992 · Series
Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special
1992 · Movie
Red Nose of Courage
1992 · Movie
Pebble Mill
1991 · Series
Bottom
1991 · Series
The Pope Must Die
1991 · Movie
Rita Rudner
1990 · Series
News Hounds
1990 · Movie
Les Dogs
1990 · Movie
French & Saunders LIVE
1990 · Movie
Oxford
1990 · Movie
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990 · Movie
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990 · Movie
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990 · Movie
Snakes and Ladders
1989 · Series
Screen One
1989 · Series
Press Gang
1989 · Series
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989 · Movie
Just Like That!
1989 · Movie
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988 · Movie
This Morning
1988 · Series
The Yob
1988 · Movie
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988 · Movie
More Bad News
1988 · Movie
The Strike
1988 · Movie
Eat the Rich
1987 · Movie
Going Live!
1987 · Series
French & Saunders
1987 · Series
Hardwicke House
1987 · Series
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987 · Series
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986 · Movie
Honest Decent & True
1986 · Movie
Saturday Live
1986 · Series
Private Enterprise
1986 · Movie
The Dangerous Brothers
1986 · Series
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986 · Movie
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986 · Movie
The Supergrass
1985 · Movie
Happy Families
1985 · Series
Screen Two
1985 · Series
Slags
1984 · Movie
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984 · Movie
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984 · Movie
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984 · Movie
Susie
1984 · Movie
Dirty Movie
1984 · Movie
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983 · Movie
Natural World
1983 · Series
Blackadder
1983 · Series
Summer School
1983 · Movie
Bad News
1983 · Movie
The Beat Generation
1983 · Movie
War
1983 · Movie
Dead on Time
1983 · Movie
The Young Ones
1982 · Series
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 · Series
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982 · Movie
Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door
1982 · Movie
The Comic Strip
1981 · Movie
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980 · Series
An Audience with...
1978 · Series
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976 · Series
Film '72
1971 · Series
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