13 Facts About Simon Bird

Simon Antony Bird was born on 19 August 1984 and is an English comedian, actor, director and producer.

Simon Bird is best known for playing Will McKenzie in the multi-award-winning E4 comedy series The Inbetweeners, as well as its two films, and Adam Goodman in the Channel 4 comedy series Friday Night Dinner.

At Cambridge, Simon Bird was the president of the Footlights, the university's sketch and theatrical group.

Simon Bird was a finalist in 2006, and was disqualified for deliberately breaking the rules in 2007.

In 2008, Simon Bird was cast in E4's teen comedy The Inbetweeners as Will McKenzie along with Joe Thomas.

Simon Bird won the 2008 British Comedy Award for Best Male Newcomer and the 2009 British Comedy Award for Best Actor.

Simon Bird was nominated for Best Comedy Performance at the 2008 Royal Television Society Awards, and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme at the 2010 BAFTA Television Awards.

In 2010, Simon Bird created a BBC Three comedy panel show The King Is Dead, in which a well-known person is hypothetically killed off and a panel of three personalities go head-to-head in a series of satirical quiz rounds and challenges in their bid to replace them.

From 2011 to 2020 Simon Bird starred in 6 series of Friday Night Dinner, a single-camera comedy written by Robert Popper and made by Big Talk Productions.

Simon Bird returned to the character of Will McKenzie in The Inbetweeners Movie which was released on 17 August 2011 In 2014 he reprised the role in the second movie about the Inbetweeners, The Inbetweeners 2, which had the highest-grossing opening weekend of any film in the UK that year.

In 2013 Bird co-created, co-wrote, and co-starred in Chickens, a sitcom about three men who remain in England during World War I It premiered on Sky1 in summer 2013 and was nominated for Best Comedy at the 2014 Broadcast Awards.

In 2016, Simon Bird directed his first short film Ernestine and Kit based on a story by Kevin Barry.

In 2023, Simon Bird directed A24 series Such Brave Girls for the BBC, described by The Guardian as "hands down the funniest British comedy of the year".