Alexander Armstrong

At 54 years old, Alexander Armstrong has this physical status:

Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong (born 2 March 1970) is an English actor, television and radio presenter, and host of BBC TV game show Pointless. Armstrong's television appearances include a leading role in the Doctor Who spin-off "The Stolen Earth" (Journey's End) and the title character in the revived series of Danger Mouse's Pointless, as well as the two-part story "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's

Early life

Armstrong was born in Rothbury, Northumberland, on March 2nd, the youngest of three children, to physician Henry Angus Armstrong and Emma Virginia Peronnet (née Thompson-McCausland). Armstrongs are a North East landowning family closely related to The 1st Baron Armstrong. Armstrong's maternal grandparents were economist Lucius Thompson-McCausland and Helen McCausland (June 1999), granddaughter of Captain Conolly Thomas McCausland (13 May 1828 – 25 June 1902) and Hon. Laura St. John (1842-31-08-10 October 1919), the 15th Baron St John of Bletso's daughter. The McCausland family owned land at Drenagh, County Londonderry.

Armstrong was educated at Mowden Hall School in Stocksfield, Northumberland, and St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh, where he served as a chorister at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral from the ages of 11 to 13. He earned his music scholarships at Durham School and Trinity College in Cambridge. He played the piano, which has been seen in many The Armstrong and Miller Show sketches, as well as the cello, the former of which was abandoned in favour of the "much more masculine" oboe.

Armstrong, a third-class degree, and sang bass baritone with the college choir at Cambridge, England. Armstrong spent his remaining years with the Footlights as part of the 1992 script team, as well as Spooks creator David Wolstencroft's comedy partner.

Personal life

Armstrong married Hannah Bronwen Snow, a stay-at-home mother, on August 27, 2003; they have four sons. In July 2014, they purchased a 26-acre (11 ha) farm near Bledington, Oxfordshire, where they grew to a 26-acre (11 ha) farm.

Armstrong was President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne in February 2011 and launched their million pound appeal at a special gala event. He is a supporter of many charities, including Family Links, the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust, and Just A Drop.

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Career

Armstrong and his friends travelled to London in 1992 to pursue a career in acting and comedy. He worked in various north London bars and restaurants when waiting for acting jobs. He was eventually introduced to Ben Miller, who had also moved to London through Jez Butterworth. Armstrong and Miller were nominated for the Perrier Award in 1996 at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and they were commended for the Perpete Award.

Armstrong and Miller appeared in four Armstrong and Miller films from 1997 to 2001, as well as doing sketches in The Sunday Format. To forge their own solo careers, the two couples decided to take a break and split for several years. Armstrong resurfaced his collaboration with Miller on the 2007 award-winning The Armstrong and Miller Exhibition. In October 2010, the Armstrong and Miller Book was published.

Armstrong appeared in BBC Radio 4's The Very World of Milton Jones, a radio broadcasting between 1998 and 2001. He narrated the animated cartoon series The Big Knights, which debuted on BBC1 in 1999; it first appeared on BBC1 in 1999. Prince Charming appeared in ITV's Christmas pantomime this year, as did Ben Miller, Samantha Janus, Paul Merton, Harry Hill, Frank Skinner, and Ronnie Corbett. Armstrong appeared in the BBC One sitcom Beast's beginnings in early 2000 and early 2001, and he also appeared in a string of Pimm's TV commercials.

Armstrong appeared on BBC Radio 4 as John Weak in the office sitcom Weak at the Top. Martin Baine-Jones appeared on the Times Online's Timeghost podcast, as well as Martin Baine-Jones. Armstrong appeared on tour in the United Kingdom from September to November 2010, selling 62 dates. This was the second tour of The Armstrong and Miller Exhibition, the first in autumn 2001.

Armstrong was chairman of the short-lived Channel 4 panel show Best of the Worst, which featured team captains David Mitchell and Johnny Vaughan on September 1st. Armstrong performed the short-lived ITV1 quiz series Don't Call Me Stupid, in which mismatched celebrities taught each other a topic they are passionate about before taking a studio exam on their latest topic. He has appeared on BBC's satirical Have I Got News for You for 32 times; he has made the most appearances of any guest, whether as host or panelist. When Were We Funniest? narrator and host. She was the only one to appear in all 12 episodes, and was the only one to appear in all 12 episodes. Armstrong in The Independent was not keen to be "pigeonholed" as a host, but rather focus on acting and comedy.

Former university friend Richard Osman has been the host of the BBC One game show Pointless since 2009. On November 8, 2009, Alexander Armstrong's Very British Holiday spoke about the "great British summer holiday" and its attempts to discover its new version. Armstrong hosted the pilot on a new panel show, Big Ask for Dave with Dave Lamb, Katy Brand, Griff Rhys Jones, and Robert Webb on May 30, 2011. Dave created the first series, which premiered on February 6, 2012, after a good response to the pilot. Armstrong appeared on BBC One's The Great British Weather in July 2011. He began on BBC One in August 2011 and began presenting Epic Win.

Armstrong co-hosted an ITV series Prize Island with Emma Willis in 2012-2013. Armstrong and Rochelle Humes co-hosted entertainment special Frank Sinatra: Our Way on BBC One on January 3rd, 2015. Armstrong will replace David Jason as the voice of Danger Mouse in the 2015 revival of the 1980s animated film "Vooda."

Armstrong screened Invisible City, a documentary that used 3D scanning technology to uncover the underground spaces beneath the city's streets on June 1, 2015. Armstrong would be filming a three-part series in Florence, Naples, and Venice, subpoena.

Armstrong created Land of the Midnight Sun, a three-part factual series for ITV, in which he travelled half-way around the Arctic Circle meeting the locals and exploring their ways of life. Bruce's Hall of Fame on BBC One appeared in January 2016.

Don't Ask Me Ask Me Ask This Year and Teach My Pet To Do That appeared on ITV in 2017.

Armstrong has done some voiceover jobs, including Mr Wolf and Captain Dog in Peppa Pig, and he is the narrator of Hey Duggee.

Armstrong returned to his musical roots and formed his own cover band, which performs a variety of genres from jazz to rock to pop hits. He is the vocalist and is backed by Harry the Piano on keyboards, Simon Bates on woodwind, Jeff Lardner on drums, and Dave Swift on bass. The band's first tour dates from 19 September to November 6, 2013.

Armstrong mainly sang at his local church services or at weddings, away from the public eye. In the show Your Face Sounds Familiar, Armstrong impersonated Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" from Britain's Got Talent, the judges were taken aback by his performance in falsetto. During the celebrities' Christmas special of Pointless and "No Rhyme for Richard" from Blondel in BBC Two's Tim Rice: A Life in Song, he performed "Winter Wonderland" and joined with The Sixteen to record "Good King Wenceslas" to raise funds for the charity Crisis.

Armstrong has been hosting the Classic FM Saturday afternoon show since September 2014. On weekdays from 9am to noon, he now hosts the mid-morning display.

Armstrong performed "We Must All Stick Together" by Ralph Butler and Raymond Wallace on May 9, 2015, a commemorative concert held in London, where he sang "We Must All Stick Together" by Ralph Butler and Raymond Wallace, and "London Pride," a patriotic song by Nol Coward, on May 9th. In Songs of Praise: The Big Sing, a special program by the Royal Albert Hall to honor Queen Elizabeth II as the world's longest-serving monarch, he performed. Armstrong's I Would Be True was a hit song on Sunday.

Armstrong's debut solo vocal album, A Year of Songs, appeared on Warner Music Group's East West Records label on November 6, 2015. In its first week, it reached number 6 on the UK Albums Chart and topped the UK Classical Chart, the first time a comedian/actor has landed at number one in the charts. He and his band appeared on a 9-date UK tour in January and February 2016.

He began recording his second album, Upon a Different Shore, in June 2016, which was released on October 28th. It debuted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart, gaining a position of eighth.

In December 2017, he appeared on a long list of celebrities who have narrated Prokofiev's Peter and The Wolf for children. Armstrong's version was released under the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's Warner Classics brand.

In a Winter Light, the third studio album, In a Winter Light, was released in November 2017.

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