Rob Brydon (born Robert Brydon Jones, 3 May, 1965, Swansea, Wales ) is a BAFTA nominated Welsh actor, comedian, radio presenter, and impressionist most famous for his role as Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and its spin-off The Keith Barret Show, as well as the host of panel quiz shows Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive and Would I Lie To You?.
Brydon is famous for bizarre or unsettling black comedy, and has worked with a number of c...
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Rob Brydon (born Robert Brydon Jones, 3 May, 1965, Swansea, Wales ) is a BAFTA nominated Welsh actor, comedian, radio presenter, and impressionist most famous for his role as Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and its spin-off The Keith Barret Show, as well as the host of panel quiz shows Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive and Would I Lie To You?.
Brydon is famous for bizarre or unsettling black comedy, and has worked with a number of comedians and actors with a similar taste, notably Steve Coogan and Julia Davis.
In 2003, he was listed by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.
His mother was a school teacher, and his father was a car dealer. Brydon grew up in Baglan, in Port Talbot, Wales and was educated at the private Dumbarton House School in Swansea until the age of 14, then at Porthcawl Comprehensive School, where he became a member of the school's youth theatre group.
He attended the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, but left to...
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