Henry Richard Enfield was born on 30 May 1961 and is an English comedian, actor, writer and director.
31 Facts About Harry Enfield
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The Harry Enfield family are descendants of the nineteenth-century philanthropist Edward Harry Enfield.
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Harry Enfield was educated at the independent Arundale School in Pulborough, Dorset House School, Worth School, Collyer's Sixth Form College and the University of York, where he was a member of Derwent College and studied politics.
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Harry Enfield squatted in Hackney and worked for a while as a milkman.
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Harry Enfield first came to wide public attention when appearing on Channel 4's Saturday Live as several different characters created with Paul Whitehouse.
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Harry Enfield created "Tory Boy", a character which portrayed a young male Conservative Member of Parliament.
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In 1989, Harry Enfield realised a personal project, Norbert Smith - a Life, a spoof on British theatrical knights "slumming" in the film industry.
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Harry Enfield provided voices for the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image, and starred as Dirk Gently in the BBC Radio adaptations of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
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In 1991, Harry Enfield played Dermot in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly along with Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash, originally on Thames Television.
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Harry Enfield left after the first series, and was replaced in the second series by Neil Morrissey as Tony.
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Harry Enfield is a professed fan of opera and fronted a Channel 4 documentary series on the subject.
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In 1991 Harry Enfield starred in the series Gone to the Dogs as Little Jim.
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In 2002 Harry Enfield returned to the BBC with Celeb, a new series based on the comic strip of the same title in Private Eye, as the ageing rockstar Gary Bloke.
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In 2002, Harry Enfield was the first guest on the revamped version of BBC's Top Gear where he did a 2 minutes 1 second lap.
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Harry Enfield appeared on the show on 23 November 2008.
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Harry Enfield has narrated various TV documentaries such as the Discovery Wings channel "Classic British Aircraft".
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Harry Enfield reprised this role in the second series in 2008, and the third series in 2009.
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Harry Enfield directed two episodes of Skins in season two entitled "Chris" and "Tony" in 2008.
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In September 2013 Harry Enfield appeared in the BBC Three comedy series Bad Education as Martin, the father of Jack Whitehall's character Alfie.
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Since 2016, Harry Enfield has appeared as Prince Charles in the Channel 4 sitcom The Windsors.
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Harry Enfield appeared as King George VI in Churchill: The Hollywood Years, a satire on Hollywood's tendency to change elements of history.
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Harry Enfield reprised his role as Martin in The Bad Education Movie, released on 21 August 2015.
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Harry Enfield appeared as Bill in the 2015 film Scottish Mussel.
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In 2022, Harry Enfield appeared as Tony Blair in the made-for-television biographical musical comedy film Prince Andrew: The Musical.
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Harry Enfield appeared in some television commercials before becoming famous, including one made in 1987 for Tetley.
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Harry Enfield's commercials include a series made in 1994 for Dime Bar.
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In 2004 Harry Enfield starred in a series of commercials for Burger King in Paraguay as Dr Angus, a character intended to promote the company's newest hamburger.
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Also in 2004 Harry Enfield provided the voice of "The Roaming Gnome" character used in Travelocity's US advertising campaign.
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Harry Enfield made a cameo appearance as 'the tea lady' during Blur's performance at the Olympics Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert in London's Hyde Park in 2012.
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In 2021, Harry Enfield starred as Prince Charles in the Windsors: Endgame at the Prince of Wales theatre in London.
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In 1997, Harry Enfield married Lucy Lyster; they have three children.