24 Facts About Rory Bremner

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Rory Bremner is known for his work on Mock the Week as a panellist, Rory Bremner.

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Rory Bremner was born in Edinburgh, the son of Major Donald Stuart Ogilvy Rory Bremner and his second wife Ann Simpson.

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Rory Bremner has an older brother and an older half-sister.

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Rory Bremner was educated at Clifton Hall School and Wellington College, and then studied Modern Languages at King's College London, graduating with a degree in French and German in 1984.

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Rory Bremner's father had served in the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment during the Second World War and was often away from home.

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Rory Bremner travelled to 's-Hertogenbosch, the Dutch city liberated by the East Lancs, amongst other places to retrace his father's footsteps.

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Rory Bremner first came into the limelight in 1985, when his single, "N-N-Nineteen Not Out" became a hit in the British charts.

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Occasional one-off specials were shown, with Rory Bremner impersonating Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and various other government figures.

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Rory Bremner has performed on Sunday AM, impersonating politicians, with a review of recent political events.

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Rory Bremner has presented a BBC Radio 4 series, Rory Bremner's International Satirists, in which he talks to comedians and impressionists from other European countries.

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Rory Bremner has translated three operas into English: Der Silbersee by Kurt Weill, Carmen by Georges Bizet, and Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach.

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Rory Bremner's translation drew a positive reception from critics, although it did draw the ire of some for the removal of any class conflict edge to the play, directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins as a squirming farce that relies heavily on the comic value of embarrassment.

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Rory Bremner took part in the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing.

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In 2012, Rory Bremner appeared on the BBC Four programme, The Story of Light Entertainment, in an episode about impressionists.

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In 2013, Bremner presented Rory Goes to Holyrood, a one-off show for BBC Scotland that takes a satirical look at Scottish politics and the independence referendum.

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Rory Bremner is patron of the London-based drama school Associated Studios.

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From 2016, Rory Bremner has been a team captain on the ITV comedy game show The Imitation Game, a panel show hosted by Alexander Armstrong based around impressions.

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Rory Bremner was awarded honorary life membership of the King's College London Students' Union in the early 2000s.

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Rory Bremner received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2011.

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Rory Bremner was placed at 49 on ITV's list of TV's 50 Greatest Stars, and in 2008 received the James Joyce Award of the Literary and Historical Society.

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Rory Bremner opposed Scottish independence in the 2014 referendum, arguing that "social justice, a fairer society and the NHS don't stop at the border" and that people should "fight for those things within the Union".

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Rory Bremner was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election.

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On 11 September 1999, Rory Bremner married Tessa Campbell Fraser; they have two daughters.

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Rory Bremner speaks French and German and studied Russian at O-level.