Jonathan Peter Culshaw was born on 2 June 1968 and is an English actor, comedian and impressionist.
29 Facts About Jon Culshaw
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Jon Culshaw is best known for his work on the radio comedy Dead Ringers since 2000.
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Jon Culshaw was born on 2 June 1968 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, and educated at St Bede's RC High School and St John Rigby College, Wigan.
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Jon Culshaw did voice-over work, then was catapulted to prominence with Spitting Image, where he voiced around forty characters, including John Major in the 1990s, who was then the Prime Minister.
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Jon Culshaw is a former student of Canterbury Christ Church University.
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Jon Culshaw later appeared on BBC Radio 2's It's Been a Bad Week, appeared as a guest on the BBC Two Star Trek Night quiz in August 1996, and was a regular guest on the Chris Moyles afternoon show on BBC Radio 1 from 1998 to 2002, where he would phone up commercial organisations such as a Kwik-Fit garage in the voice of Patrick Moore or Obi-Wan Kenobi politely requesting whether they could service his X-wing fighter and how much time it would take.
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Jon Culshaw rose to fame in January 1998 while working with Steve Penk on Capital Radio, by impersonating William Hague and succeeding in contacting Number 10 Downing Street.
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Jon Culshaw was put through to Tony Blair who, despite instantly discovering the ruse, had a lengthy conversation with him until a member of Blair's staff ended the call.
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Jon Culshaw was one of the stars of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Dead Ringers, which ran from 2000 to 2007 as well as the BBC Two television series of the same name, from 2002 until 2007.
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In 2018, Jon Culshaw gave a rare dramatic performance as David Bowie in the BBC radio play The Final Take: Bowie in the Studio, an imagined account of Bowie as he works on his final album and looks back over his life.
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Between 2001 and 2002, Jon Culshaw hosted a programme on ITV called Alter Ego, where he interviewed male celebrities in their own style of speaking, a form of simultaneous translation.
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Jon Culshaw appeared on 2DTV, a cartoon version of Dead Ringers.
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In early 2004, using the same production team, he had his own programme, The Impressionable Jon Culshaw commissioned for ITV.
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In 2005, Jon Culshaw was a celebrity contestant on Comic Relief Does Fame Academy and was the fourth person to become eliminated.
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Jon Culshaw later appeared two months later reporting on the Northern Lights.
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In May 2008, Jon Culshaw appeared in the BBC documentary series Comedy Map of Britain.
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Since 2009, Jon Culshaw has starred in the BBC One comedy sketch show The Impressions Show alongside Debra Stephenson.
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On 13 March 2010, Jon Culshaw was a guest judge on the BBC One charity programme Let's Dance for Comic Relief.
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In 2010, Jon Culshaw appeared in the television series, Missing as Des Martin.
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In November 2013, Jon Culshaw appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five Doctors Reboot.
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In 2017, Jon Culshaw was one of the minor hosts of the Channel 5 documentary series Secrets of the National Trust.
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Jon Culshaw narrates the Channel 4 property series 'Sun, Sea, and Selling Houses'.
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In film, Jon Culshaw appeared as Tony Blair in the 2004 film Churchill: The Hollywood Years and voiced Piston Pete in the 2008 film Agent Crush.
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Jon Culshaw has appeared in numerous Doctor Who related productions in various roles.
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Jon Culshaw has appeared in the webcast "Death Comes to Time" and audio drama The Kingmaker.
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Jon Culshaw later started playing Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart alongside Tim Treloar as the Third Doctor.
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In 2006, Jon Culshaw received an honorary fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire in Preston.
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In March 2019, Jon Culshaw sat for British impressionist artist Sherree Valentine-Daines for a portrait painted to mark the opening of the Clarendon Fine Art Gallery in Hampstead, London.
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In 2016 he participated in the Great North Run to raise funds for the Jon Culshaw Egging Trust, a charity set up in memory of the Red Arrows flight lieutenant who died while flying at the Red Arrows Display at the Bournemouth Air Festival.