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Simon Antony Bird (born 19 August 1984) is an English actor, comedian and director. He is best known for playing Will McKenzie in the E4 comedy series The Inbetweeners (2008–2010), as well as its two films (2011 and 2014), and Adam Goodman in the Channel 4 comedy series Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020).[1]

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Simon Bird
Bird in 2010
Born	Simon Antony Bird (1984-08-19) 19 August 1984 (age 38) Guildford, Surrey, England
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge Birkbeck, University of London
Occupation	Actor comedian director
Years active	2008–present
Spouse	Lisa Owens ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	2

Early life

Bird was born in Guildford, Surrey, as the third of four children[2] of Claremont McKenna College Professors Graham and Heather Bird.[3]

Bird was educated at Cranmore School, West Horsley, the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he read English, alongside Inbetweeners co-star Joe Thomas.[4] At Cambridge, Bird was the president of the Footlights, the university's sketch and theatrical group.[5] He graduated with a double First.[6]

Career

Early comedy career

While completing a Master of Arts degree in cultural and critical studies at Birkbeck College, Bird set up the sketch comedy group "The House of Windsor" with former Footlights contemporaries Joe Thomas (who plays Simon Cooper in The Inbetweeners) and Jonny Sweet.[7] They performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 and in 2008 with a show called The Meeting, described as a site-specific comedy installation set in an actual boardroom. Bird and Thomas were also regulars on series 1 and 2 of The Weekly Show, a podcast for Channel 4 Radio (2006–07).

Bird also performs stand-up comedy and took part in Chortle's national student comedy awards in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, coming second in his final attempt. He was a finalist in 2006, and was disqualified for deliberately breaking the rules in 2007.[8][9]

Breakthrough

In 2008, Bird was cast in E4's teen comedy The Inbetweeners as Will McKenzie, along with Joe Thomas.[10] He won the 2008 British Comedy Award for Best Male Newcomer[11] and the 2009 British Comedy Award for Best Actor.[12] He was also nominated for Best Comedy Performance at the 2008 Royal Television Society Awards,[13] and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme at the 2009 BAFTA Television Awards.

Subsequent work

In 2010, 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. He hosted alongside Nick Mohammed and Katy Wix.

Another of Bird's projects is Friday Night Dinner, a single-camera comedy written by Robert Popper and made by Big Talk Productions.[14]

Bird returned to the character of Will McKenzie in The Inbetweeners Movie which was released on 17 August 2011. In 2014 he resumed the role in the second movie about the Inbetweeners, The Inbetweeners 2.

Bird has co-created, co-written, and co-starred in a pilot, "Chickens", for Channel 4, about three men who remain in England during World War I. It was broadcast as part of Channel 4's Comedy Showcase season. In 2012, Sky One picked up a six episode season; filming began in late 2012 and the series premiered in summer 2013.

As of 2017, he was starring on the West End in The Philanthropist, alongside Charlotte Ritchie.[15]

He directed the 2019 feature film Days of Bagnold Summer, backed by Creative England and the British Film Institute.[16]

Personal life

In 2012, Bird dated Lisa Owens; they met at Cambridge University when they took part in a sketch about a couple rowing. Bird proposed to Owens in Paris and they married a year later. They have two children.[17]

Bird is a supporter of Crystal Palace Football Club.[18]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	The Inbetweeners Movie	Will McKenzie
2013	The Look of Love	Jonathan Hodge
	The Harry Hill Movie	Ed
2014	The Inbetweeners 2	Will McKenzie
2016	Ernestine & Kit		Short film; director
2018	You, Me and Him	Ben Miller
2019	Days of the Bagnold Summer[19]		Director

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008–2010	The Inbetweeners	Will McKenzie	18 episodes British Comedy Award Best Male Comedy Newcomer (2008) British Comedy Award Best TV Comedy Actor (2009) Nominated – BAFTA TV Award for Best Male Comedy Performance (2010)
2010	The King is Dead	Himself (Host)	7 episodes; also creator and writer
2011	Comedy Showcase	Cecil	Episode: "Chickens"
2011–2020	Friday Night Dinner	Adam Goodman	37 episodes
2013	Chickens	Cecil	6 episodes; also creator and writer
2015–2016	Drunk History: UK	D.I. Charles Buggy / Winston Churchill	2 episodes
2019	The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited	Himself	1 episode (special)
2020	Sandylands	Nathan Wild	3 episodes
2021	‘’Simon Bird: Debrief’’	Self, Host/Presenter
TBA	Everyone Else Burns[20]	David Lewis	Lead role

References

External links

• Simon Bird at IMDb

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[ru] Бёрд, Саймон

Саймон Энтони Бёрд (англ. Simon Antony Bird, МФА [ˈsaɪmən bɜːd], род. 19 августа 1984 (1984-08-19), Гилфорд, Суррей, Англия) — английский актёр, комик[1] и режиссёр. Наиболее известен по ролям Уилла Маккензи в британском ситкоме «Переростки»(2008—2010) и одноимённых фильмах, а также Адама Гудмана в британском ситкоме «Ужин в пятницу вечером»(2011—2020).

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