Matt Berry

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Matthew Charles Berry (born 2 May 1974) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and performer.

He has appeared in comedy films including The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh, Snuff Box, The Wrong Door, and House of Fools.

He currently stars in the Channel 4 sitcom Toast of London, for which he received the 2015 BAFTA Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Program.

He has appeared in FX television series What We Do In the Shadows and the sitcom Year of the Rabbit, beginning in 2019.

Early life

Matthew Charles Berry was born in Bromham, Bedfordshire, the son of nurse Pauline (née Acreman) and taxi driver Charles Berry. He earned a degree in contemporary arts at Nottingham Trent University in 1999.

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Career

Berry began his running career as a runner. On BSkyB's computer and technology channel, he appeared in Game Over between 1998 and 1999.tv. Berry was the main performer in this series, with a large number of comedy sketches including Berry as the principal performer.

Todd Rivers/Lucien Sanchez was one of Berry's first television appearance in the cult 2004 comedy series Man to Man with Dean Learner, which was also its 2006 spin-off. In The Mighty Boosh, Dixon Bainbridge debuted as an eccentric, sinister tycoon. He met The Mighty Boosh duo while on tour at the Hen and Chickens Theatre, where they were residents in 2000. In The Mighty Boosh Live DVD, he can be seen in a cameo performance.

Berry wrote and appeared in the comedy series Snuff Box with Rich Fulcher while filming The Mighty Boosh. In The Mighty Boosh, Fulcher co-starred as Bainbridge's lackey, Bob Fossil. Berry appeared on E4's The Golf War in November 2007.

Douglas Reynholm appeared on The IT Crowd in 2007. In the 2007 British Comedy Awards, he was named Best Male Comedy Newcomer for the role.

In 2008, he became the face of Adult Swim's spoof charity appeal, "Save the Employees."

In 2010, Berry played journalist Michael Duffy in the BBC film Five Daughters, about the events surrounding the 2006 Ipswich murders. Allen appeared in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Allen Part Two" in 2011. He appeared in the British comedy panel game Shooting Stars, portraying Vangelis. Vic and Bob and Steve Coogan also appeared as an antiques specialist on the ITV sketch show Monkey Trousers.

During this period, Berry appeared in a number of films, including The Devil's Chair (2006) and Moon (2009). He also appeared in The Search, a short film about "a lonely man's search for life outside of our universe," takes a surprising twist as he interacts with a newly bereaved family.

In 2012, BBC Radio 4's comedy show I, Regressive, in which he portrayed Dr. Berry, a brilliant but unorthodox regressive therapist. Berry explored the psyche of a guest patient by attempting to solve his or her problems in a bizarre dreamlike sequence in each 15-minute episode. In the film version of David Nicholls' One Day as Aaron, Dexter's agent, Berry appeared. He appeared briefly in the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, introducing ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky" by way of a mock weather forecast.

In July 2012, he appeared as vain conductor Steven Toast in Channel 4's pilot episode of Toast of London, co-written with Arthur Mathews. Despite mixed reviews, a series was produced, and Berry's first episode was broadcast on October 20, 2013, bringing home the BAFTA Award for Best Male Comedy Performance. Berry and Arthur Mathews published Toast on Toast: A spoof autobiography of Steven Toast in 2015. Berry also published it as an audiobook read.

In the 2013 Portlandia episode "Squiggleman," Berry played the title character. Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, co-creators, included the performance on a list of their "best musical moments" from the show.

Berry co-starred in House of Fools, written by and starring Reeves and Mortimer from 2014 to 2015. Beef was portrayed as "the highly sexual, flamboyant, and blindly confident friend of Vic and Bob" who "will seduce anything in a skirt."

Berry appeared in episode nine of Dan Harmon's television series Community's sixth season, which was released on Yahoo Screen on May 5, 2015. He appeared in Professor Awfulshirt in Harry Hill in Professor Branestawm's Returns on BBC One in December 2015.

Berry has performed in a number of voice acting roles. In the 2015 SpongeBob SquarePants film sequel, Bubbles, an inter-dimensional dolphin, he appeared: Sponge Out of Water, an inter-dimensional dolphin. In Twelve Forever, a series pilot created by Julia Vickerman for Cartoon Network that was released on their website on May 16, 2015, he also voiced the principal villainess, The Butt Witch. In December 2017, the show was migrated to Netflix. A collection of comedy shorts for the BBC from 2015 to 2016. Berry Does..., a compilation of comedy shorts from 2015 to 2016. Prince Merkimer appeared in Matt Groening's animated series Disenchantment, which premiered on Netflix in 2018.

Berry has appeared in the FX TV version of What We Do in the Shadows as Laszlo, one of four vampires living in Staten Island, since 2019. In May 2019, it was revived for a second season and launched in April 2020. In September 2021, the third season premiered. "It's different and it's really cheap," Berry said in a collider.com interview. The scripts are starting points and then proceed from there. Anyway, that's how I like to work. So, for me, it was divine. That's my background, improvisation. "It was home for me in that branch."

Berry also appeared in Year of the Rabbit, an IFC/Channel 4 sitcom. He plays the alcoholic Detective Inspector Rabbit, who is set in Victorian London. The series was revived for a second series of six episodes on February 11, 2020. Channel 4 reversed their decision in January 2021, casting doubt on the show's future and citing budget cuts incurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. "Year of the Rabbit is a victim of COVID's devastating effects," Layla Smith, the show's production company OMG's chief executive, said. [...] We're really committed to the show, but we'll need another partner — and we're working on it."

Squeamish About... BBC Two commissioned Berry for a mockumentary series in April 2020. Berry and Arthur Mathews will co-write the four quarter-hour specials, while Michael Squeamish will appear as Michael Squeamish. The series gives a gruesome look at the episodes' topic thanks to a combination of archive footage and voiceover.

Berry was hired by the BBC to produce a "Steven Toast in America" series in 2021, after the second series of Year of the Rabbit was cancelled. The show was a six-part television show for BBC One, marketed under the name Toast of Tinseltown and co-written by Berry and Arthur Mathews.

Berry's distinctive voice has earned him many voiceovers for radio and television ads, including Absolute Radio, Müller Corner adverts, and characters on several commercials for The Natural Confectionery Company. He has appeared on Sketchbook as a recurring bit-part character who hurls into a snooker hall and yells "Stop playing snooker!" Before whispering an implausible wager to one of the players and shooting an unfeasible trick shot, the player was teasingly taunt. He worked with Team17 on their video game title Worms Revolution in 2012, providing voiceovers, as fictional wildlife documentary maker Don Keystone for both the game and the video ads.

Berry read out the teamsheets at Luton Town before the game in 2014. He appeared in an award-winning satirical anti-war film produced by the UK branch of Veterans for Peace, Action Man: Battlefield Casualties.

Berry has narrated commercials for Moneysupermarket.com and even voice inserts for Absolute Radio since 2019.

In the well-known Finnish animated children's series Moominpappa, Berry appeared as Moominpappa in 2019.

Berry also voices the tortured android 8D8 in the 2021 Star Wars television series The Book of Boba Fett, and Merkimer appears in adult animation Disenchantment.

Berry wrote all of the songs for Snuff Box and Toast of London, as well as AD/BC: A Rock Opera, which he co-wrote with Richard Ayoade. The AD/BC was a half-hour parody of overblown musicals in general, as well as Jesus Christ Superstar in particular, in telling the tale of the innkeeper who allowed Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus to sleep in his manger. In December 2004, AD/BC debuted Fulcher and Mighty Boosh actors Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, as well as Noel Fielding. Berry also performed a song for an episode of Garth Marenghi's "One Track Lover," a spoof cheesy romantic 1980s songs.

Berry also wrote music for the BBC 2 Steve Coogan comedy Saxondale and appeared in the first and third episodes of the show's second series. He wrote the theme tune for Blunder's Channel 4 sketch show. He has also appeared on The Peter Serafinowicz Exhibition.

Berry is a member of musical composer Dan McGrath and performed guitar and contributed to the Strictly Come Dancing theme song by playing guitar and delivering the audible "Hey."

Berry has released nine studio albums: Jackpot (1995), Opium (self-released, 2008), Witchazel (2011), Kill the Wolf (2013), The Small Hours (2016), Television Themes (2018), Phantom Birds (2021), and The Blue Elephant (2021). The most recent five titles on Eddie Piller's Acid Jazz Records have been released. Night Terrors, a "companion piece" to The Small Hours, was released in 2017, containing remixes by artists such as Saint Etienne. Berry said in the first issue of Bearded Magazine in 2007 that he was producing and collaborating on new material with 1960s soul singer Geno Washington, which would be released in a new album. It was Witchazel, which Berry first announced as a one-day-only free download in March 2009. It was later released on CD and as a paid-for digital download.

Berry has performed with many bands, including Jonas 3 and The Maypoles. Mark Morriss, a former member of the Bluetones, and Cecilia Fage, a singer/clarinettist, are among the latter. Rich Fulcher has appeared on stage for several appearances. Geno Washington has appeared onstage at London gigs for encores of the Snuff Box theme.

Berry performed "Cream Pie" in October 2007 and later in November, a free copy of the Blur song "Sing" was released. Beardaid supporters can also enjoy "Cream Pie" on "Babylaid."

Berry sang of Ronnie Hazlehurst's television themes in an episode of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, and his band performed out the Screenwipe Christmas special with a recreation of Hazlehurst's theme tune for 1980s British sitcom Sorry!

Berry appeared on Absolute Radio, where he still performs various voiceovers and is referred to as "the voice of Absolute Radio" until 2010. The now-defunct Matt Berry Podcast was regularly featured in the Top Ten of iTunes podcasts, and its producer Vince Lynch was nominated for Best Online Producer at the Radio Production Awards.

Parts of the Snuff Box theme appeared briefly in the film Dredd in 2012, with the phrase "but it was bronze" playing from a computer terminal in the Grand Hall of Justice in the latter half of the film.

Berry opened Steven Wilson's second visit to Albert Hall in 2015.

Berry released the album Television Themes on Acid Jazz Records in July 2018, featuring pictures of famous retro TV shows including "Survival!" Doctor Who, and Rainbow. It was his first top-40 album chart hit.

Berry was named as one of the Desert Sessions album Vols' contributing artists in 2019. 11 & 12 are twins. On the track "Chic Tweetz," he co-wrote, narrated, and played the organ.

Berry's album Phantom Birds (also published by Acid Jazz) debuted on the UK charts in October 2020 and beat the number 31 on television Themes' Top 50. He appeared in Gorillaz' livestreamed concert "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" in December 2020.

Berry's ninth studio album, The Blue Elephant, was released by Acid Jazz on May 14, 2021.

Berry has appeared in many music videos. In the video for Richard Ayoade's song "Run-Away" (2004), he appeared in the Super Furry Animals song "Run-Away" (2005). Other appearances include videos for Three Trapped Tigers' "Reset" (2011) and "What Are You Like" (2015) by Irish band Pugwash.

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