25 Facts About Robert Llewellyn

Robert Llewellyn was born on 10 March 1956 and is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer.

Robert Llewellyn plays the mechanoid Kryten in the sci-fi television sitcom Red Dwarf and formerly presented the engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge.

Robert Llewellyn has founded and hosts a YouTube series, Fully Charged, which has grown into a company that puts on EV and "Everything Electric" conventions in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe.

Robert Llewellyn wrote much of the material, and began writing novels.

Robert Llewellyn co-wrote and starred in The Corner House, a 1987 sitcom for Channel 4 about a cafe run by gay men.

Robert Llewellyn's involvement with Red Dwarf came about as a result of his appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performing in his one-man comedy, Mammon, Robot Born of Woman, about a robot who, as he becomes more human, begins to behave increasingly badly.

Robert Llewellyn joined the cast of Red Dwarf in 1989 at the start of the third series.

Robert Llewellyn was the only British cast member of Red Dwarf to originally participate in a proposed American version, though other actors such as Craig Charles and Chris Barrie were approached to reprise their roles.

Robert Llewellyn has presented a number of programmes for UK television.

In 1992, Llewellyn appeared in "Parade", the fourth episode of series two of Bottom, as a wounded Falklands War veteran named Mr N Stiles.

In February 2009, Robert Llewellyn featured as a guest in episode 127 of the technology-related podcast MacBreak Weekly with Leo Laporte.

Robert Llewellyn presented the 2008 Channel 5 game show Top Trumps.

Robert Llewellyn reviewed the world of science and technology in his popular Machine of the Week report.

Since 2009 Robert Llewellyn has provided the voice of news anchor Perry Flynn for PlayStation Home TV, which airs in the Home Theatre of the European version of PlayStation Home.

Robert Llewellyn has worked as a voice actor, providing the voices of the alien creatures in Skywhales, the voice of Feeble for The Feeble Files, Old Joe in Christmas Carol: The Movie, and the gryphon in the 2005 film MirrorMask.

In January 2011, Robert Llewellyn appeared on Celebrity Mastermind answering questions on the specialist subject of electric cars; he has expressed an interest in working on a television series about technologies that we might use in the future.

In 2010, Robert Llewellyn was the narrator of the Channel 5 series The Boss is Coming to Dinner.

Robert Llewellyn appeared in the 2013 movie Ashens and the Quest for the GameChild alongside Stuart Ashen and Warwick Davis, and the 2020 sequel, Ashens and the Polybius Heist.

Robert Llewellyn presented the 2015 BBC Two show The World's Busiest Railway alongside Dan Snow and Anita Rani, which later featured on Netflix under the title "Mumbai Railway".

In 2019, Robert Llewellyn was a contestant alongside Craig Charles on the BBC One series Antiques Road Trip.

Robert Llewellyn, who is of Welsh ancestry, learned to drive aged 11.

Robert Llewellyn praised the honesty of the other driver for accepting full liability for the accident, as well as the hospital, police and other services for helping him.

Robert Llewellyn gave special praise to his "beloved Prius" for protecting him from the impact.

Robert Llewellyn suffered concussion, minor whiplash and dizzy spells but escaped more serious injury.

Robert Llewellyn has expressed that his major pseudoscientific irritations are astrology and climate change denial.