Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born January 6, 1955 in Consett, County Durham, England) is a British comedian and actor. Both of his virtually all easily-known characters come Edmund Blackadder and Mr. Bean.

Atkinson was natural to Eric Atkinson & Ella Can, Anglican farmers. He was educated at Durham Choristers School followed by St Bees School and studied electrical engineering at Newcastle University then at Oxford (Queen's College), starting his comedy career at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Atkinson toured by having the 1-one-woman indicate, by owning Angus Deayton as the second banana. A 1-one-persin indicate was filmed for television, & is however popular on streaming video. It characterises Atkinson's comedy style, which is tightly plotted & written, typically physically-depending comedy – comedy when performance, like than comedy when observation or even discussion, observant of life when several of the routines were. Atkinson's talent for physical comedy hwhen seen him described as "the man with the rubber face". Within 1978 he was offered his have television series by ITV but turned it down in favour of Not the Nine O'Clock News.

Inside 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts inside British comedy, & in the 2005 poll to find ''The Comedian's Comedian'', he was voted amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

He suffered from either the stutter as a child & it another time comes back after he is inside nerve-racking situations. Particularly, a letter "B" poses the condition for him. He managed to overcome a condition across on top articulation; nevertheless, this all over articulation, somewhat ironically, evolved into one of his trademark amusing equipment within itself. His pronunciation of "Bob" in Blackadder being a famed lesson.

Inside June 2005, Atkinson led a coalition of the UK's virtually all large actors & writers, including Nicholas Hytner and Ian McEwan, to the British Parliament in an attempt to inflict the read of the controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill – on a grounds that the Bill would give religious type a "weapon of disproportionate power" whose threat would engender the culture of self-censorship among creative person.

He has too appeared around television advertising campaigns for Hitachi electrical goods, Fujifilm, the Give Blood campaign and, virtually all famously, as an espionage agent for Barclaycard from which his title role was depending for the film Johnny English.

He too mass produced appearances at a Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, which also airs in television. He was present at a fifth festival around 1987 and the seventh within 1989.

Atkinson is married to Sunetra Sastry in 199& has ii babies, Lily & Benjamin. His major hobby is fast cars, having written for the British magazine Car & with & racing Aston Martin vehicles. He holds the UK HGV licence, and presently writes for the British magazine Evo in going an MG XPower SV.

He has starred within many TV comedy series, among them:

''The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979), a charity special for Amnesty International. Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979-1982) Blackadder (1983, 1985, 1987, 1989) Mr. Bean (1989-1995, 2002) Funny Business (1992), a documentary film all about a craft of comedy The Thin Blue Line (1995-96) a Comic Relief Red Nose Day telecasts (notably starring in the "Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death" skit in the 1999 telecast)

Filmography

Never Say Never Again (1983) The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (1989) The Tall Guy (1989) The Witches (1990) Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) The Lion King (1994, voice of Zazu) Bean (1997) Rat Race (2001) Scooby-Doo (2002) Johnny English (2003) Love Actually (2003) Keeping Mum (2005) In Production Bean 2 (2006) Announced''