DATE OF BIRTH : 19th May 1963
PREVIOUS JOBS : Spent five years as a Scientific Officer in a Junior Medical Lab at Charing Cross Hospital. But he hated it and while joking in a canteen one day, a secretary told him ‘You ought to leave’, and he said ‘Right I will’ and handed in his notice that week. His parents thought he was mad to give up his steady job.
LIKE FRANKIE? : ‘I’m not like Frankie at all – he calls a spade a spade and is very blunt. I like to see both sides of an argument and I don’t want to be the jolly fat man in a piece. Really I’m a moody fat man – all comics are.’
ON BEING LARGE : ‘I’m more enormous than roly-poly.. it’s an asset. I don’t know what a diet is and I don’t want to find out.’
TELEVISION CREDITS : Bottom; Casualty; Nelson’s Column; How to be a Little Sod; A Little Loving; The Peter Principle; The Comic Strip Presents; Lovejoy; Virtual Murder; Boon; Press Gang; French & Saunders; So What Now?; Doc Martin; Foyle’s War; Shameless; Outlaw; The Outsiders; The Comic Strip Presents – Sex Actually; Tittybangbang; In My Country; Katy Brand Big Ass Show; Doctors; The Impressions Show; Marooned
FILM CREDITS : Without a Clue; Paperhouse; Great Balls of Fire; The Pope Must Die; Far and Away; Spice World; Martha Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence; Shakespeare in Love; Bring me the Head of Mavis Davis; Guest House Paradiso; Kevin and Perry Go Large; A Knight’s Tale; Churchill: The Hollywood Years; Finding Rin Tin Tin; The Cottage; Conan
THEATRE CREDITS : Caucasian Chalk Circle; Class Enemy; Clockwork Orange; Playboy of The Western World; Season of Three Plays; Joko’s Anniversary; Scout Honour
COMMERCIALS : Kellogs Crunchy Nut; Lloyds Bank
AGENT : Amanda Howard Associates, 21 Berwick Street, London W1F 0PZ.