亚德里安·埃德蒙松

Adrian Edmondson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He went to Manchester University to study drama. Whilst he was there he met 里克·梅奥尔, 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 彼得·理查德森, 奈格尔·派纳, 珍妮弗·桑德斯, 唐·弗兰奇, and 阿列克谢·赛尔. 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 to 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 条子家族的崩溃 (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). He has been married to 珍妮弗·桑德斯 since 1985, and they have three children together.

Has three daughters: Ella Edmondson, 比蒂·埃德蒙森 and Freya Edmondson.

Is the second oldest of four siblings.

Met best friend and comedy partner 里克·梅奥尔 at Manchester University in 1975.

His wife, 珍妮弗·桑德斯, named Edina Monsoon her character in Absolutely Fabulous (1992) after him.

Helped carry the coffin of his comedy partner 里克·梅奥尔 at his funeral in June 2014.

Frequently performed alongside 里克·梅奥尔

Often plays violent, anarchic characters.

Often plays characters with a squawky, shouty voice.