Rowan Atkinson

The name of Rowan Atkinson is inextricably linked with the famous character - Mr. Bean, the hero of the series of the same name. This role has brought the British comedian wide recognition, as well as millions of loyal fans around the world. The original and memorable appearance along with unforgettable facial expressions made him one of the most recognizable stars.

However, the artist considers himself a quiet and boring person, whose bravado is only a game.

Rowan was born into a large family on January 6, 1955 in the small mountain town of Consett. His parents had nothing to do with television or the stage. Eric's father was engaged in farming, and mother Ella Mae helped him and raised three children. Already in childhood, the boy had a very unique facial expression that could make almost anyone laugh, which Atkinson often did at school. There he was known as the main joker and clown, which made Rowan one of the most recognizable and memorable students.

At the age of 11, Rowan was transferred to the prestigious Chorister School, where the future British Prime Minister Tony Blair was studying at that time. Later, the actor moved to the closed private school of St. Bis, located in the north-west of England. It paid a lot of attention to various sports disciplines in which Atkinson felt very uncomfortable. His physique was far from athletic, and training was quickly exhausting.

Classmates often laughed at the weak boy, and then Rowan decided to take advantage of this. In the locker room, he parodied the teachers, turning the ridicule into a pure and sincere admiration of the guys for his comedic talents. Thus, the young man masked the shame he felt from his own helplessness in sports, and tried to earn respect among his peers.

After graduating from college, the future actor began to feel embarrassed about his teenage clownery and closed himself off, becoming a very serious and modest guy. Atkinson did not even think about a career on stage, serious prospects in the scientific path loomed in his head. Rowan entered the University of Newcastle in the Department of Electronics. The comedian adored physics since childhood and easily memorized huge formulas that could cause tremors in many people with a humanitarian mindset.

Technical sciences have always been easy for the artist, so after graduating from Rowan University he was invited to Oxford, where he was to write his doctoral work. It was during the training that wonderful people appeared in the life of the actor: the writer Richard Curtis and the composer Howard Goodall, who became his best friends and colleagues in their future careers.

Atkinson took up acting and clowning in the 2nd year, just getting into a good company, not imagining his life without a stage. He became a member of the Experimental Theater Club and the Oxford University Drama Society. The humorous sketches were very popular with students and teachers, which allowed Rowan to easily win several comedy festivals. The actor wrote the scripts in collaboration with his friend Curtis, who also in the future achieved considerable success in the field of cinema.

After completing his master's degree, Atkinson toured England with the Etceteras theater group.

Rowan quickly rose to fame as a rising star on the British comedy scene. The first step to world recognition was a radio show with the uncomplicated name "People of Atkinson". The actor's co-author was again a friend and colleague Richard Curtis. Satirical interviews, allegedly taken by Rowan from characters invented by him, were in great demand among listeners.

Atkinson got on television thanks to another comedian - Angus Dave. Their performance together was captured on film and shown on one of the shows. Subsequently, the actor was offered to shoot his own program "Not the nine o'clock news", which was produced by John Lloyd. Not without old acquaintances. Howard Goodall became a composer and wrote unforgettable music for the show, and Richard Curtis created several episodes of the picture. The sketch show aired in October 1979 and immediately became incredibly popular in Britain.

After a successful debut on television, the actor was invited to the medieval comedy "Black Viper" with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, which finally consolidated Atkinson's fame as one of the most popular comedians in England.

Rowan appeared before television viewers as Edward, Earl of Edinburgh. Before filming began, the performer did not even imagine how the character would look and sound. Almost all facial expressions, as well as Edward's movements in the pilot episode of the sitcom, were pure improvisation, which turned out to be very successful. He also had to cut his hair according to the fashion of the era.

Worldwide fame came to the comedian after debuting as the character of Mr. Bean, who first appeared in 1989 in the New Year's half-hour issue on Thames Television. Immediately after the New Year, the full-fledged series of the same name "Mr. Bean" was released. Rowan invented his character while still a student at Oxford, even appearing in this image at festivals several times.

In his work, the actor paid great attention to the facial expressions and plasticity of the character, since Bean practically does not conduct dialogues and rarely speaks. This role helped Atkinson push the boundaries of British popularity and interest audiences outside of Britain.

For 5 years, the adventures of Mr. Bean were watched by the whole world, each episode attracted more than 20 million viewers from the screens. The incredible success of the series led to the creation of a full-length film, which was released in 1997 under the name "Mr. Bean". In the form of his most famous character, the actor has repeatedly appeared in numerous shows and television projects, delighting the audience with his colorful performances.

However, Rowan began to get tired of Bean and announced that the painting "Mr. Bean on Vacation" would be his last appearance in this image. The film was released in 2007 and was first shown in Russia.

In the comedy "Rat Race" Atkinson was accompanied by the equally famous comedians John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Seth Green and John Lovitz. This fun company raced for $ 2 million, lying in the storage room of a provincial town 700 km from the start. Such a tote in public was arranged by the owner of the casino to entertain wealthy customers.

In 2003, the comedy "Agent Johnny English" was released, where the actor departed from the role of Mr. Bean and played the British intelligence agent Johnny English. The film itself was a humorous parody of a film about James Bond, a famous spy from the cinema. The motion picture was a success, and Rowan himself was awarded the "EuropeanFilmAwards" award for best actor. In 2011, the sequel to "Agent Johnny English: Reboot" was filmed.

In 2012, Atkinson reappeared as a cult hero at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics, where, as part of a comedy sketch, he accompanied the synthesizer song "Chariots of Fire", playing only one key. After the Games, Rowan gave an interview in which he announced the end of Mr. Bean's career. According to the artist, the role was more and more difficult from the physical side, because the character has incredibly rich facial expressions.

Having visited Moscow in 2015, Rowan noted that only now, when Bean has turned into a middle-aged man, does he understand better how to play him, "than 25-35 years ago, when we just started."

The artist was embarrassed by the fact that a 50-year-old man behaves too childishly on the screen. However, this did not stop Rowan from voicing his character in the animated series that was released in screens in 2014, as well as playing Bean again in an advertisement for the popular Snickers bar.

On the set of the video, Atkinson, the owner of a height of 181 cm, by nature flexible, was most of all afraid to go up to the roof. Already the 2-meter height made the actor nervous, calmed the thought that a team of professionals would hedge around at the right time.

In 2016, a picture appeared in Atkinson's filmography, the protagonist of which is a private detective who is by no means smiling. Maigret is based on a series of novels by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon about a criminal police commissioner. Critics ambiguously accepted Rowan in this role, while the actor himself was enthusiastic about participating in the project, because he was in love with stories about Maigret and dreamed of plunging into the atmosphere of Paris of the 50s.

However, the first invitation to the role of Atkinson, after thinking for 3 months, declined - he thought that he would not get used to the image that had been embodied more than once before him, so as not to copy. And besides, the genre of detective story, where the hero is not comical, scared away. But the film crew, including the writer’s producer son John Simenon, waited for Rowan for a year.

Commissioner Maigret is the only character in the British actor who spends half a day in a car, but never gets behind the wheel. This fact was very frustrating for Atkinson. In addition, the car racing lover was banned from participating in such dangerous events during filming.

Rowan often jokes that he does not like to give interviews, because journalists invariably ask him questions about his personal life, which, alas, is not as rich in events as the life of his character, Mr. Bean. In his youth, the actor suffered from stuttering, it was especially difficult for him to be given words with the letter B. With age, the speech defect weakened, but Atkinson is still considered uncommunicative.

For some time he met with actress Leslie Ash, but broke up with her. In the late 1980s, he met the make-up artist Sanetra Sestri, who worked for the BBC. Their relationship developed very rapidly, and already in 1990 they got married. At first, very modestly in a close family circle, and then they held a grand ceremony in the very center of London, where 80 people were invited.

In the marriage, the couple had two children - daughter Lily Grace and son Benjamin Alexander Sebastian. The girl followed in her father's footsteps and played a couple of minor roles in Rowan's paintings, but eventually became a singer - she performs soul music in London clubs.

In 2013, Rowan filed for divorce and soon began to appear in the company of actress Louise Ford, whom he had met a year earlier during a performance at the West End Theater in the play "Quartermaine's Terms". In 2015, an official divorce from Sanetra followed, and less than a month later, the artist invited Louise to live together in a country house. Whether Ford became the actor's legal wife and how the son, who was born in December 2017, was named, the chronicle is silent.

Atkinson has a weakness for exclusive cars and racing, at one time he wrote articles for specialized magazines. In 2011, Rowan narrowly escaped death by speeding up to 240 mph in a £ 650,000 Mc Laren F1 and crashing into a tree.

The movie star's fleet includes BMW 328 and Aston Martin Virage, Rolls-Royce and Morris Traveler, hybrid Honda Civic and Mercedes-Benz 500E. The Aston Martin DB7 Vantage car, driven by the hero in the movie "Agent Johnny English", also belongs to the leading actor.

Atkinson has no personal accounts on social networks, there are a couple of fan pages on Instagram and Twitter. There are photos of Rowan himself, an actor in the image of Mr. Bean. Perhaps this disregard for the World Wide Web is due to human permissiveness and impunity, which violate peace of mind. So, in 2016, the artist became the victim of a cruel prank: an announcement of his suicide was published on Facebook.

The serious edition of The Sun had to stand up for the celebrity and refute the cruel joke. However, in the biography of Atkinson this is not an isolated case of "death". Fortunately, every time is false.

In 2018, the British actor continued the story about the super agent Johnny English. And since the films in this series are a parody of the popular action movie about James Bond, the authors of Bond films Robert Wade and Neil Purvis had a hand in the script. The picture was named "Agent Johnny English 3.0".

This time, Agent English and his assistant, played by Ben Miller, will have to prevent a global Internet disaster. Emma Thompson played the British Prime Minister, who looks suspiciously like Theresa May. At her personal request, the agent, who has already retired, returns to the service to help colleagues, because their identity has been revealed. On the way, the heroes will experience incredible adventures, dangerous tasks and comical situations that will haunt the hapless master of espionage for life

The connection between the films about agent 007 and his amusing double is "provided" by the participation of Olga Kurylenko, who has already tried on the image of a Bond girl in "Quantum of Solace".

1983-1989 - "Black Viper" 1990-1995 - "Mr. Bean" (TV series) 1994 - "Four weddings and one funeral" 1997 - "Mr. Bean" 2001 - "Rat Race" 2003 - "Agent Johnny English" 2005 - " Shut up in a rag "2007 -" Mr. Bean on vacation "2011 -" Agent Johnny English: Reboot "2016-2017 -" Maigray "2018 - Agent Johnny English 3.0"

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