Simon Bird
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Simon Antony Bird (born 19 August 1984) is an English actor and comedian.
He is best known for his role in The Inbetweeners (2008–2010), and its two sequels (2011 and 2014), and Adam Goodman in the Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner (2011–present).
Early life
Bird was born in Guildford, Surrey, as the third of Claremont McKenna College Professors Graham and Heather Bird's three children.
Bird was educated at Cranmore School, West Horsley, the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he read English. Bird, the university's sketch and dramatic group, performed at Cambridge. He earned his first place in a double first.
Personal life
Bird dated Lisa Owens in 2012; the pair met at Cambridge University when they were involved in a sketch about a couple rowing. In Paris, a bird proposed to Owens and they married a year later. They have two children.
Bird is a fan of Crystal Palace Football Club.
Career
Bird formed the sketch comedy group "The House of Windsor" with former Footlights contemporaries Joe Thomas (who plays Simon Cooper in The Inbetweeners) and Jonny Sweet while completing a Master of Arts degree in cultural and critical studies at Birkbeck College. They appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 and 2008 with The Meeting, which was described as a site-specific comedy performance set in a true boardroom. On series 1 and 2 of The Weekly Show, a show on Channel 4 Radio (2006–07), Bird and Thomas were also regulars.
In 2005, 2006, 2007, 2007, and 2008, Bird also performed stand-up comedy and appeared in Chortle's national student comedy competitions, finishing second in his last attempt. He was a finalist in 2006 but was disqualified for deliberately breaking the rules in 2007.
Will McKenzie and Joe Thomas appeared in E4's teen comedy The Inbetweeners as Will McKenzie and Joe Thomas in 2008. He received the Best Male Newcomer Award in 2008 and the Best Actor Award in 2009. At the 2009 British Television Society Awards, he was also rated for Best Comedy Performance at the 2008 Royal Television Society Awards and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Program.
In 2010, Bird created The King Is Dead, in which a well-known celebrity is hypothetically killed off and a panel of three celebrities goes head-to-head in a series of satirical quiz rounds and challenges in the attempt to replace them. He appeared alongside Nick Mohammed and Katy Wix on the programme.
Friday Night Dinner, a single-camera comedy written by Robert Popper and produced by Big Talk Productions, is another of Bird's works.
In the Inbetweeners Movie, which was released on August 17, 2011, Bird portrayed Will McKenzie. In 2014, he reprised his role in The Inbetweeners 2: Inbetweeners 2.
Bird co-created, co-authored, and co-starred in a Channel 4 pilot "Chickens," about three men who are still in England during World War I. It was shown as part of Channel 4's Comedy Showcase season. Sky One produced a six-eps episode series in 2012; filming began in late 2012 and the series premiered in summer 2013.
He appeared in The Philanthropist on the West End as of 2017, as well as Charlotte Ritchie.
He produced Days of Bagnold Summer, a 2019 feature film coproduced by Creative England and the British Film Institute.