Lee Evans
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Lee John Martin Evans (born 25 February 1964) is an English stand-up comedian and actor from Avonmouth, England.
He was a producer of Little Mo Films, and he co-directed with Addison Cresswell, who was also his agent prior to Cresswell's death in December 2013.
He is also a well-known actor having appeared in the Hollywood films The Fifth Element (1997), Mouse Hunt (1997), There's Something About Mary (1998), The Ladies Man (2000), and The Medallion (2003).
In the Emmy-nominated miniseries Dinotopia (2002), he lent his voice to "Zippo the Troodon" and made a notable change from comedy with a leading role in the Irish film Freeze Frame (2004).
He made his film debut with the Jerry Lewis comedy Funny Bones (1995), winning the Paris Film Festival Award for Best Actor. Evans' Big Tour DVD Big Tour Big in 2008 became the country's highest-selling Christmas DVD, only to be defeated in 2014 by his own Monsters Tour DVD.
Evans officially announced his resignation in November 2014.
Evans came out of retirement to appear in a revival of Harold Pinter's one-act play Monologue in 2018.
Early life
Lee John Martin Evans was born in Bristol's Avonmouth suburb of Birmingham on February 25, 1964, the son of Irish mother Shirley Hunt and Welsh father Dave Evans (died June 2019). Wayne (born 1962) is his older brother. His father, a comedian, guitarist, and impressionist, was a comedian, singer, and impressionist. The family moved to Essex in 1975, where Evans attended The Billericay School. He followed his father into comedy after a brief stint as a boxer and two years at Thurrock Art College in Essex. He moved from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, where he was a drummer in The Anonymous Five, a punk rock band.
Personal life
Both Evans and Heather Nuddd were 17 years old when they married on September 22, 1984, and they live in Billericay, Essex; they were married on September 22, 1984.
Mollie's daughter, Mollie, was attending the University of Florida as of 2014. She is now an illustrator.
Career
Evans came to prominence in the 1990s with his abrasive, sweaty, energetic stage performances, and physical observational comedy. His slapstick humour has resulted in comparisons with Norman Wisdom, though Evans does not believe Wisdom is a power. He received the Perrier Comedy Award in 1993 for his appearances at the Edinburgh Festival.
Evans was drenched on stage as a result of his sweat. He has a quick shower and changes into a new suit during most of his headlining appearances. After three performances, he has also stated that his suits are inevitably discarded, mainly because of the sweat, with dry-cleaners refusing to work them. Evans set a new world record for a solo act on the biggest comedy audience in November 2005, playing to 10,108 people at the Manchester Arena.
Evans' stand-up act, "Big," toured the UK in autumn 2008. On his "Big" tour, he performed in front of over 500,000 people on 59 dates. This was supposed to be the first-ever performance by a comedian at the O2 Arena in London before Chris Rock announced the dates that would take place at the venue prior to Evans. The DVD was shot at the O2 Arena and was released on November 24, 2008. For Christmas 2008, it was the best-selling comedy DVD in the United Kingdom, selling over 1,000,000 copies. On March 30, 2010, Evans appeared on Channel 4's Comedy Gala for Great Ormond Street Hospital. He was the last act on stage, and he was given a comedy award and auctioned it to the audience for charity.
With a new stand-up act named "Roadrunner," Evans toured the UK in 2011, with 50 dates beginning in Bournemouth in August and running until November in Cardiff. On June 10, he appeared at the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, to try his new material for the "Roadrunner" tour. In July, he rented Colston Hall in Bristol to fine his routine. The tour included four nights in Wembley Arena and four in the O2 Arena, representing around 100,000 seats in London alone, with four nights in Dublin. At 9 a.m. on October 15, 2010 tickets went on sale.
The first day Evans went on sale, they sold £7,000,000 worth of tickets. Due to popular demand, a further 17 dates were added to the tour in Bournemouth International Centre, Brighton Centre, Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, Wembley Arena, The National Indoor Arena, The O2 Glasgow, Liverpool Arena, Motorpoint Arena Belfast, and The O2 Dublin. This brought the tour up to 67 dates in 14 cities, eight more than the record-breaking tour of 2008. He was named by the British Comedy Awards in 2011 for Special Contribution to Comedy.
On November 14, Evans revealed on The Jonathan Ross Show that he was moving away from stand-up comedy to spend more time with his wife and daughter.
Evans has appeared in numerous films, including in Funny Bones, Mouse Hunt, There's Something About Mary (where he appeared as British), The Fifth Element, The Martins, and Undertaking Betty. In the 2005 film The Magic Roundabout, Evans appeared as Zippo in the television miniseries Dinotopia and Train. Evans appeared on Viva Cabaret! from 1993 to 1994, both as a host and as a guest performer. He appeared in Channel 4's The World of Lee Evans in 1995.
In his first non-comic role in the film Freeze Frame in 2004, he appeared as a paranoid murder suspect. Although warned that their eyebrows would never recover, he shaved his eyebrows (as well as his hair). Evans appeared in Samuel Becket's Endgame in 2004, and he and Nathan Lane played Leo Bloom in Leo Bloom's London production from 2004 to 2005, with whom he also appeared in MouseHunt. Evans was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical by Laurence Olivier for his role in The Producers; Lane received the award. He appeared in the 50th anniversary of The Dumb Waiter's production in 2007. Mr. Polly's book The History of Mr. Polly appeared on television in May 2007.
In the 2009 Doctor Who Easter special "Planet of the Dead," Evans appeared as Malcolm Taylor, a Welsh scientist.
Evans appeared in the play Barking in Essex at London's Wyndham's Theatre between September 2013 and January 2014.
In October 2017, Lee Evans came out of retirement to perform scenes from Shakespeare's plays in a one-off fundraiser with Jack Whitehall. At the Harold Pinter Theatre in London.
Evans is also a singer and guitarist, as seen on his arena tours. He can play the guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, piano, turntables, mandolin, ukulele, and drums.
What Now?'s a script and starred in the sitcom So What Now? For the BBC, there are five words. In total, eight episodes were written.
He also has his own production company that produces his stand up DVDs, named after his daughter, who he affectionally refers to as Little Mo.