1. Kevin Eldon was born on 2 October 1959 and is an English actor and comedian.
35 Facts About Kevin Eldon
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Kevin Eldon featured in British comedy television shows of the 1990s including Fist of Fun, This Morning with Richard Not Judy, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, I'm Alan Partridge, Big Train, Brass Eye and Jam.
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In 2013, Eldon appeared in his own BBC sketch series It's Kevin.
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Kevin Eldon has appeared in minor speaking roles in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
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Kevin Eldon has two children with his wife Holly, who he met in late 2005 on the set of Hyperdrive, where she was the art director.
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In early 1980, Virginia Doesn't morphed into The Time, in which Kevin Eldon was again the front man.
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Kevin Eldon started on the stand-up circuit in the early 1990s performing an act in-character as the political poet Paul Hamilton, but has, on occasion, done stand-up as himself.
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From March 2009, Kevin Eldon appeared in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle in a number of the show's sketches most often with Paul Putner.
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Kevin Eldon has appeared in many British comedy shows from the 1990s onwards.
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Kevin Eldon had previously worked with some of the cast in the satirical series Brass Eye, and the dark comedy Jam, both written by Christopher Morris.
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In 2004, Kevin Eldon appeared in the BAFTA award-winning dark comedy Nighty Night as Terry Tyrrell, husband to Julia Davis' character.
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Kevin Eldon worked again with Pegg in an episode in the sitcom Spaced with Mark Gatiss, both of whom played two Matrix-style government agents, and in the comedy film Hot Fuzz where he played Sergeant Tony Fisher.
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Kevin Eldon has appeared on stage and screen numerous times with the comedian Bill Bailey; they performed as a spoof of the German band Kraftwerk, singing German versions of the "Hokey Cokey" and The Wurzels song "The Combine Harvester" for the recorded version of Bill Bailey's Part Troll comedy tour, along with two others.
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Kevin Eldon has had minor guest starring roles in numerous comedy projects, including Smack the Pony, Green Wing, The IT Crowd and The Kennedys.
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In February 2010, Kevin Eldon appeared in the pilot for a "sort-of-sketch-show" called Missing Scene.
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In 2013, Eldon was given a six-part sketch comedy series called It's Kevin, broadcast on BBC Two.
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Kevin Eldon wrote a spoof biography on Paul Hamilton called "My Prefect Cousin: A Short Biography of Paul Hamilton" in 2013 where he pretends that Hamilton is his own cousin.
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Kevin Eldon has appeared in several minor serious roles in British drama shows such as Robin Hood, Utopia, Merlin, Skins, New Tricks and Hustle.
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Kevin Eldon has played an English policeman in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Hugo.
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Kevin Eldon co-authored the theme tune, and is script editor for, the children's series Genie in the House.
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Kevin Eldon provided the voice of Penfold in the 2015 revival series of Danger Mouse.
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Kevin Eldon appeared in the 2015 series of the children's comedy sketch show Horrible Histories as William the Conqueror - performing a parody version of Korean popstar PSY's hit, Gangnam Style called "Norman Style".
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Kevin Eldon has been a contestant on the gameshow Pointless Celebrities and was the winner in a 2014 episode of Celebrity Mastermind, where his specialist subject was "The Music of The Beatles".
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Kevin Eldon voiced the character of Frobisher in the 2012 PlayStation Vita game Frobisher Says, and provided voice work for the 2013 indie game Gun Monkeys by Size Five Games.
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Kevin Eldon starred as the great dwarf smith Narvi in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 TV series, which first aired on HBO in 2024.
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From 1997 to 1999, Kevin Eldon appeared in BBC Radio 1 show, Blue Jam, which was later adapted into the TV series Jam.
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In 2001, Kevin Eldon appeared in the non-canon Doctor Who four-part webcast series "Death Comes to Time", in which he played Antimony, a companion to the Seventh Doctor.
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In 2008, Kevin Eldon presented Poets' Tree, a four-part "poetry type programme" for BBC Radio 4, in the character of Paul Hamilton, which was co-written and edited by Stewart Lee.
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Kevin Eldon has written and starred in a six-part series of monologues as people from different professions, collectively entitled Speakers, broadcast on the London art radio station Resonance FM.
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Kevin Eldon has appeared in a CERN podcast with Simon Munnery.
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Between 2009 and 2013, Kevin Eldon appeared as both Dean the Dwarf and Kreech, the "Right Hand of Darkness" in the BBC Radio 4 parody of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy called ElvenQuest.
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Kevin Eldon has made guest appearances on Radio 4's Fags, Mags and Bags, North by Northamptonshire and The Horne Section.
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Kevin Eldon was part of 7th series of the tag team interview radio series Chain Reaction.
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Kevin Eldon was interviewed by John Cooper Clarke and he then interviewed Mark Steel.
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Kevin Eldon appeared in Quanderhorn, a science fiction comedy radio series written by Andrew Marshall and Rob Grant.