Rowan Atkinson was born on a farm in Durham on January 8th, 1956. He got his Electrical engineering degree on Oxford university. His comedy career started at the Edinburgh fringe. He was also a late member of "Monty Python".

Rowan is a comedian in Blackadder and Mr. Bean. He has made an appearanced in a couple of big films, Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994), The Lion King (1994) but he got to play some serious parts in these movies which was a bit of a bummer, because his great sense of humour wasn't completely utilized.

He's playing the part of Raymond Fowler in "The Thin Blue Line", a Ben Elton comedy. He did a serious role for BBC's "Heroes and Villains - Full Throttle" about car maniac "Tim Birkin"

Rowan also starred in Rat Race (2001) opposite Whoopi Goldberg and Love Actually (2003) with Liam Neeson. His last movie is Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007).

Atkinson married Sunetra Sastry in 1990, having met her professionally on the set of Blackadder.

Filmography

• Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
• "The Dame Edna Treatment" (1 episode, 2007)
• Comic Relief 2007: The Big One (2007)
• Keeping Mum (2005)
• Spider-Plant Man (2005)
• Mickey's PhilharMagic (2003)
• Love Actually (2003)
• Johnny English (2003)
• Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do (2003)
• "Mr. Bean: The Animated Series" (24 episodes, 2002-2003)
• Scooby-Doo (2002)
• Rat Race (2001)
• Comic Relief: Say Pants to Poverty (2001)
• Maybe Baby (2000)
• Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)
• Comic Relief: Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (1999)
• Bean (1997)
• "The Thin Blue Line" (14 episodes, 1995-1996)
• "Mr. Bean" (18 episodes, 1990-1995)
• Comic Relief: Behind the Nose (1995)
• Full Throttle (1995)
• Unseen Bean (1995)
• The Lion King (1994)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
• Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
• Comic Relief: The Invasion of the Comic Tomatoes (1993)
• Bernard and the Genie (1991)
• The Witches (1990)
• "Blackadder Goes Forth" (6 episodes, 1989)
• The Tall Guy (1989)
• Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988)
• Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)
• The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (1988)
• "Blackadder the Third" (6 episodes, 1987)
• "Blackadder II" (6 episodes, 1986)
• Never Say Never Again (1983)
• "The Black Adder" (7 episodes, 1982-1983)
• Dead on Time (1983)
• Peter Cook & Co. (1980)
• "The Innes Book of Records" (1 episode, 1980)
• "Not the Nine O'Clock News" (1979)
• Canned Laughter (1979)

Awards

• CableACE Award Best Comedy Special "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean" 1994
• BAFTA Award Best Comedy Series "Blackadder Goes Forth" 1989
• BAFTA Award Comedy Award "Not the Nine O'Clock News" 1980
• Society of West End Theatres (SWET) Award Best Comedy Performance "Rowan Atkinson in Revue" 1980 - 81