Rowan Sebastian Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson (wwwusers.brookes.ac....)

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson was born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England on January 6th, 1955. His father is Eric Atkinson and his mother is Ella May Atkinson. He was educated at Durham Cathedral Choir School, followed by St. Bees School, and graduated from Newcastle University and Oxford University, both in England. He also earned degrees in electrical engineering.

As Edmund Blackadder (www30.thdo.bbc.co.uk...)

He started his comedy career in 1977, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. At Oxford, he performed and acted for the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) and the Experimental Theatre Club (ETC). There, he met Richard Curtis (writer) and Howard Goodall (composer). Both would collaborate with him in his career. When Angus Deayton found his talent, and called him “ the man with the rubber face,” he had an idea to make his own TV Series, Not the Nine Clock (1978, which also starred Pamela Stephenson, Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith, it was his first debut. After that, he acted in the medieval sitcom, The Blackadder (1983) as Edmund Blackadder . The success of The Blackadder also happened on Blackadder II (1985), Blackadder the Third (1987) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989). The Blackadder series went on to become one of the most successful BBC situation comedies in the 1980s.

Animated Mr Bean (Wikipedia.org)

He became a very famous comedian since he performed as Mr. Bean in Thames Television (1989). Mr. Bean was a character of a stupid man. Sometimes Mr. Bean was hideous, but sometimes he can make the viewers burst in laughter because of his actions. Mr. Bean is an anarchist, unintentionally. He's not trying to create chaos, he's just trying to make his own life work, in his own way. With his Teddy Bear and the Reliant Regal Supervan, he asked us to discover his own world. Mr. Bean lasted from 1989 until 1997 . But, the public wanted the figure of Mr. Bean again so, Rowan created the animated series of Mr. Bean in 2002. But, this show can not satisfy the viewer’s longing to see the real Mr. Bean. Rowan said that he planned Bean 2 in 2006, and he says this is the last time he played as this character.

Johnny English (www.bbc.co.uk/wales/...)

Rowan married Sunetra Sastry, a make-up artist, in 1990 and they had two children, Lily and Benjamin. Now, Rowan Atkinson has become a millionare, who has a hobby collecting cars. He is a writer to the British Magazine Car . Other his television appearances included, The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979), a charity special for Amnesty International , Not the Nine O' Clock News (1979-1982) , Blackadder (1983, 1985, 1987, 1989), Mr. Bean (1989-1995, 2002), Bernard and the Genie, (1991), Funny Business (1992), a documentary about the craft of comedy , The Thin Blue Line (1995-96), The Comic Relief Red Nose Day telecasts, including appearing in "Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death" skit in the 1999 telecast, and as Spider-Plant Man as Peter Piper & Spider-Plant Man in 2005.

He also played in many films like, Never Say Never Again (1983) , The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (1989) , The Tall Guy (1989) , The Witches (1990) , Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) , Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Lion King (1994, voice of Zazu), Bean (1997), Rat Race (2001), Scooby-Doo (2002), Johnny English (2003), Love Actually (2003), Keeping Mum (2005) and Bean 2 (2006).

Mr Bean with Teddy (Wikipedia.org)

If you watch the Mr Bean series, maybe you wonder about what is the theme song ? Here are the lyrics:
"Ecce homo qui est faba" – Behold the man who is a bean (opening)
"Finis partis primae" – End of part one (before commercial break)
"Vale homo qui est faba" – Farewell, man who is a bean (ending)