1. Miles Hugh Barrett Jupp was born on 8 September 1979 and is an English actor and comedian.
34 Facts About Miles Jupp
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Miles Jupp began his career as a stand-up comedian before playing the role of the inventor Archie in the children's television series Balamory.
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Miles Jupp played John Duggan in The Thick of It, Nigel in the sitcom Rev, and appeared on many comedy panel shows.
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Between 2015 and 2019, Jupp was the host of The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4, replacing Sandi Toksvig.
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Miles Jupp was born in 1979 in London and spent his early childhood in West Hampstead.
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Miles Jupp is the son of a minister in the United Reformed Church.
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For much of his life, Miles Jupp believed he was of Belgian stock, descended from 16th-century Huguenot immigrants.
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Miles Jupp attended three independent schools: The Hall School in Hampstead, North London; St George's School in Windsor; and Oakham School in Rutland.
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Miles Jupp wrote Fibber in the Heat, a book about his adventures as a cricket journalist in India.
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Miles Jupp had a role in the BBC Scotland comedy programme, Live Floor Show, where he played an eccentric, foul-mouthed comedian.
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In 2007, Miles Jupp appeared fleetingly in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as a television weatherman who complained about a hot drought.
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Miles Jupp appeared in Series 3 and 4 of the political comedy, The Thick of It, as John Duggan, an incompetent press officer with a habit of making inappropriate comments.
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Miles Jupp appeared in BBC Scotland's comedy Gary: Tank Commander as Captain Fanshaw.
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In 2010, Miles Jupp appeared on Mock the Week and Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow.
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Miles Jupp performed as Nigel, a Church of England Lay Reader, in the BBC sitcom Rev Miles Jupp appeared as an under-secretary in the film Made in Dagenham.
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In January 2011, Miles Jupp was a team member alongside Goldie and Phill Jupitus on the music quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
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Miles Jupp had a cameo role in Johnny English Reborn in 2011 as an employee of MI7.
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Miles Jupp appeared in Series 4, Episode 4 of the comedy panel game Argumental, which aired on 24 November 2011.
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Miles Jupp was featured in the 2014 World War II film, The Monuments Men, as British officer Major Fielding.
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Miles Jupp has appeared eight times on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown between 2014 and 2021.
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In 2014, Miles Jupp narrated the BBC television documentary series, Building Dream Homes.
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In 2015, Miles Jupp appeared as a team captain on The Really Welsh Christmas Quiz, alongside comedians Chris Corcoran, Elis James, and Omar Hamdi.
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In October 2016, Miles Jupp appeared as Giles, the chairman of the residents' committee, in the sitcom from BBC Three Josh.
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Miles Jupp played auction house appraiser Winford Collins in the episode "The Tanganyika Green" of Father Brown.
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In 2018, Miles Jupp made guest appearances as Basil, an incompetent lawyer, in the television drama by ITV The Durrells.
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Miles Jupp was the narrator of the radio show The Penny Dreadfuls Present.
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In 2009, Miles Jupp became the host of BBC Radio 7 satirical comedy series Newsjack and the host of BBC Radio Scotland comedy quiz show Swots.
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Miles Jupp appeared as a contestant on BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz in April 2012.
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Miles Jupp chaired the show for 12 series, with his last appearance on 31 May 2019.
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Miles Jupp appears as retired Prime Minister Henry Tobin in Party's Over from 2019 to 2022.
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In March 2008, Miles Jupp performed his third solo show, Everyday Rage and Dinner Party Chit Chat, at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden.
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Miles Jupp presented Live at the Gilded Balloon podcast for The Guardian newspaper's coverage of the 2008 and 2009 Edinburgh Fringe.
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In 2019, Miles Jupp played the role of actor David Tomlinson in The Life I Live, a one-man show at the Salisbury Playhouse and other theatres.
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In 2021, Miles Jupp suffered a brain seizure, following which he had surgery to remove a brain tumour.