Ben Elton
Ben Elton was born in Catford, England, United Kingdom on May 3rd, 1959 and is the Comedian. At the age of 65, Ben Elton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is a British comedian, author, playwright, actor, and producer.
He was active in London's alternative comedy movement in the 1980s and became a writer on series such as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television.
In the 1980s, his style was a left-wing political satire.
Since then, he has published 15 books and written the musicals We Will Rock You (2004) and Love Never Dies (2010), the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera.
His books are based on the dystopian, comedian, and crime genres.
Early life and education
Elton was born on May 3rd, 1959 at University College Hospital in Fitzrovia, London, the son of Mary (née Foster), an English teacher from Cheshire, and physicist and educational researcher Professor Lewis Elton. He is nephew of historian Sir Geoffrey Elton and a third cousin of singer Olivia Newton-John. Elton's father is from a German-Jewish family, and Elton's mother, who was raised in the Church of England, is of English origins.
Elton grew up in Catford, south London, before moving with his family to Guildford, Surrey, in 1968, where he became involved in amateur dramas. Elton reflected on those times at an event in Guildford in 2013.
He was born in a loving non-religious family. He is an atheist. Elton attended Stillness Junior School and Godalming Grammar School in Surrey before heading to South Warwickshire College in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he studied English, History, and Theatre Studies at age 16. He began studying Drama at the University of Manchester in 1977, where he met Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, and in 1980 he graduated with second-class honours.
Personal life
Sophie Gare, an 18-year-old Australian saxophone player, first met Elton in 1986 while working in Melbourne (he had a girlfriend named Kate at the time); a year later in Edinburgh, a newly engaged Elton rekindled their friendship and the two became a couple. The two married in 1994 and have three children (including twins). They settled in North Fremantle, Western Australia, and they also have a home in East Sussex, England. Elton has dual British and Australian citizenship, the first since 2004. When their children have completed their education, he has speculated about a future move back to London.
He has been nominated twice for TV's Room 101, first by broadcaster Anne Robinson in 2001 and then by comedian Stewart Lee, who compared Elton to "as ranking lower than Osama bin Laden" in the moral sense.
Elton has a left-wing political career. Elton benefited Red Wedge prior to the campaign's 1987 general election by participating in a comedy tour led by the campaign.
He was a Labour Party supporter and one of the party's biggest private financial contributors. However, Elton distanced himself from the Party during Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and New Labour's time in the mid-1990s, instead contributing to and supporting the Green Party, though, in April 2015, he said he was "back with Labour" for the 2015 general election. In 2022, he condemned his brand of satire as a criticism of those in power, encouraging the Channel 4's audience to elect Labour, which will change my focus of attention away from the Conservative Party.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, a Conservative Party supporter, has been chastised for directing a musical. "If I were to refuse to talk to Tories, I would limit my social and career horizon greatly," Elton said in his defense. "I think you miss out on the many facets of life" if you judge all your relationships based on a person's voting preferences.
"I would have loved a honeymoon period, but I've been irritable journos from the start," Elton says. I was shot for being too left-wing, and now I've sold out and I'm too right-wing, but I'm still being me, and that's certainly not the person I identify in anything that's been written about me." He has denied that he is anti-establishment. He also said he was a socialist at a time when "the media was (sic) on the whole slavishly worshipping of Thatcher." "I believe in the politics of Clement Attlee," he said. I'm a member of the Welfare State Labour Party" in the United Kingdom.
In the sketch "Benny Elton" for Harry Enfield and Chums in 1994, he parodied himself, chasing Page 3 models around a park to chastise them and tricking heterosexual couples into becoming gay.
