Adrian Charles Edmondson was born on 24 January 1957 and is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter.
38 Facts About Ade Edmondson
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Ade Edmondson was part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s and had roles in the television series The Young Ones and Bottom, which he wrote together with his collaborator Rik Mayall.
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Ade Edmondson played the lead role in the Comic Strip's 1985 feature film, The Supergrass.
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Ade Edmondson performed and wrote for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
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In 2013, Ade Edmondson was crowned the winner of Celebrity Masterchef, and from 2019 to 2020, he appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Daniel Cook.
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Ade Edmondson attended Pocklington School, East Riding of Yorkshire from 1968 to 1975.
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Ade Edmondson calculated that during his time at Pocklington, he received a total of 66 strokes of the cane as well as frequent slipperings.
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Aubrey taught English and encouraged Ade Edmondson to pursue drama, casting him in a number of school plays, and allowing him to take time out of other lessons to do drama.
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In 1985 Ade Edmondson starred with his wife Jennifer Saunders in Happy Families, a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton, which appeared on the BBC and told the story of the dysfunctional Fuddle family.
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Ade Edmondson played "Edward Catflap", a coarse, drunken minder of light-entertainment nonentity "Richie Rich".
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In 1988, Ade Edmondson released a follow up to How To Be A Complete Bastard called The Bastard's Book of the Worst.
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Ade Edmondson played Brad Majors in the 1990 West End run of The Rocky Horror Show, alongside Tim McInnerny as Frank-N-Furter and Ed Tudor-Pole as Riff-Raff.
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Ade Edmondson appears on the soundtrack album of the production.
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Ade Edmondson played Estragon to Mayall's Vladimir in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in the West End, in a production that opened at the Queen's Theatre on 30 September 1991.
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In 1993, Ade Edmondson starred alongside Richard Briers in a black comedy called If You See God, Tell Him.
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Ade Edmondson played Gordon Spry, whose uncle is paralysed and has a greatly reduced attention span.
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In September 1995, Ade Edmondson released his first novel, The Gobbler.
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Ade Edmondson had a lead role playing an NHS doctor in the comedy series Doctors and Nurses first broadcast in early 2004.
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In Surviving Disaster, a BBC docudrama about the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, broadcast at the start of 2006, Ade Edmondson played the role of Valery Legasov.
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Ade Edmondson played the role of Captain Hook in the Canterbury Marlowe Arena pantomime during its Christmas 2009 run.
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Mayall appeared during Ade Edmondson's winning performance of The Dying Swan on BBC One's Let's Dance for Comic Relief on 5 March 2011, and in September 2011, Ade Edmondson appeared on the Sunday morning cooking show Something for the Weekend and told presenter Tim Lovejoy that he and Rik Mayall were planning to reunite and make another series of Bottom, set in an old people's home.
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In 2011, Ade Edmondson hosted the ITV documentary series The Dales, in which he followed a number of families who live and work in the Yorkshire Dales, including the "Yorkshire Shepherdess" Amanda Owen.
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Ade Edmondson presented the ITV series Ade in Britain that year, where he travelled to different parts of the United Kingdom in a Mini Countryman towing a small caravan, often including a performed segment from local folk singers.
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Ade Edmondson won the 2013 BBC One cookery series of Celebrity MasterChef.
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Ade Edmondson played the role of Gordon in the 2013 Chichester Festival Theatre production of Neville's Island.
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In 2015, Ade Edmondson voiced Stanley the Dachshund in adverts for health and life insurance company Vitality.
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In 2016, Ade Edmondson took part in episode 4 of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off and won the title of Star Baker.
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From 2 November to 3 December 2016 Ade Edmondson starred in an adaptation of William Leith's bestseller Bits Of Me Are Falling Apart at the Soho Theatre, London.
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From November 2017 into 2018, Ade Edmondson played the character of Malvolio in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
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Also in 2017, Edmondson appeared as Captain Peavey in the eighth film of the Star Wars series, The Last Jedi, a casting decision made by the film's director Rian Johnson, a self-proclaimed fan of Edmondson's work in The Young Ones and Bottom.
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In September 2018, Ade Edmondson featured as Sergeant Dogberry in the episode "Sigh No More" of Ben Elton's Upstart Crow.
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From September 2018 to November 2018, Ade Edmondson toured with Nigel Planer in a play that they wrote together called Vulcan 7.
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In 1984, Ade Edmondson formed the spoof heavy metal band Bad News as part of The Comic Strip Presents.
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In 1986, Ade Edmondson achieved a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart when he and his co-stars from The Young Ones teamed up with Cliff Richard to record a new version of "Living Doll" for the inaugural Comic Relief campaign.
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Ade Edmondson directed and appeared in "International Rescue" by Fuzzbox and appeared in the music video "Terry" by Kirsty MacColl.
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In 1991, Ade Edmondson formed the Bum Notes, who were a jazz instrumental band and conceived exclusively to perform theme music for Bottom.
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Ade Edmondson contributed vocals and writing for their 2007 album Pour l'Amour des Chiens.
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Together with Maartin Allcock, Andy Dinan and Troy Donockley, Ade Edmondson founded the band the Bad Shepherds in 2008, performing punk and new wave classics on traditional folk instruments.