Rob Delaney
Rob Delaney was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States on January 19th, 1977 and is the Comedian. At the age of 47, Rob Delaney biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Rob Delaney (born January 19, 1977) is an American comedian, writer, and activist.
Hobbs & Shaw (2019) — He is best known as the co-star and co-writer of the TV series Catastrophe, as well as minor roles in blockbuster action-comedy films such as Deadpool 2 (2018) and The Fast and Furious spin-off Hobbs & Shaw (2019).
Early life
Delaney was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1977, the son of Nancy and Robert Delaney. He grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He is of Irish descent. In 1999, he attended the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City and obtained a degree in musical theater.
Personal life
Delaney and his wife, Leah, live in London and have four children together. Delaney revealed in February 2018 that their son Henry died in January at the age of two-and-a-half having undergone extensive brain surgery since 2016. In August 2018, the couple's fourth son was born. In 2020, he wrote about getting a vapingectomy.
Delaney has openly shared his battle with a number of health problems, including depression and alcoholism. In 2002, he blacked out while driving and pulled his car into a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power headquarters. He broke his left wrist and right arm, and both of his knees were cracked to the bone. This prompted him to stop drinking.
Delaney was the first presenter on the CBeebies Bed Time Stories programme to share a tale in Makaton, which he used to share with his late son Henry.
Delaney selected A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin as one of his favorite books on Sara Cox's show Between the Covers.
Delaney is an atheist.
Career
Delaney first came to the attention of the public via Twitter, on which he started posting in 2009. By 2016, he had over 1.2 million followers. While other comics were hesitant to share their material on social media, he is considered one of the first comedians to use social media to publish jokes. He credited Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan with his rise in popularity after Linehan began responding to his tweets. In 2010, Paste magazine named Delaney one of the 10 funniest people on Twitter. In May 2012, he became the first comedian to win the award for "Funniest Person on Twitter" at The Comedy Awards.
Delaney has written several articles for Vice and The Guardian. His book Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. was published by Spiegel & Grau in November 2013.
In December 2011, Comedy Central announced that Delaney would shoot a pilot for a variety show, called @RobDelaney. However, the series was not picked up. Instead, Delaney moved on to co-write and co-star with Sharon Horgan in Catastrophe, that began airing in the UK on January 19, 2015, on Channel 4. The show follows their characters after they get together following a brief affair while he is in the UK on business, and then moves there permanently after he learns that she has become pregnant. It debuted in the United States on Amazon in June 2015. There are now four seasons available with the fourth season confirmed to be the final of the series. Channel 4 aired the concluding episode on February 12, 2019, while Amazon announced the US release date to be March 15 of the same year. The series earned him his sole Emmy nomination, for "Outstanding Comedy Writing".
Since moving to the UK in 2014, Delaney has appeared on several British panel shows, including Have I Got News for You, Would I Lie to You?, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Big Fat Quiz of the Year and Room 101. In 2016, he appeared on Travel Man as a guest host for the Spanish city of Seville, and in March 2021, he was the guest announcer on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.
In the film Deadpool 2 (2018), Delaney played Peter, an average middle-aged man who has no superpowers and joins Deadpool's X-Force. As part of the film's promotion, a Twitter account was launched in Peter's name.
Throughout 2019, Delaney had a series of cameos in Hollywood blockbuster films. He reteamed with director David Leitch and actor Ryan Reynolds for Hobbs & Shaw, in which he appeared as Agent Loeb. He appeared as a theater director in Paul Feig's comedy-drama Last Christmas. Both movies went to No. 1 at the UK box office. He also appeared opposite Anne Hathaway in The Hustle as Todd and the Fox News drama Bombshell co-starring Charlize Theron. He filmed a cameo as Elvis Presley in Dexter Fletcher's Elton John musical biopic Rocketman, which was omitted from the theatrical cut. It was also reported that he would appear opposite Reynolds another time, in Pokémon: Detective Pikachu. However, he did not appear in the final film. In September 2019 he was cast in The Good House opposite Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline.