Biography
The name of Rowen Atkinson is inextricably linked with the famous character - Mr. Binin, hero of the eponymous series. This role brought British comic to widely fame, as well as millions of devotees all over the world. Original and memorable appearance on a par with an unforgettable fairytale made it one of the most recognizable stars.
However, the artist considers himself a quiet and boring man, whose bravada is only a game.
"People mistakenly think that I can make them laugh on stage or with personal communication."Childhood and youth
Rowan was born in a large family on January 6, 1955 in the small mountain town of Contests. His parents had no relation to television or scene. Eric's father was engaged in farming, and Ella Mei's mother helped him and brought up three children. Already in childhood, the boy possessed a very unique fairytale, able to laugh almost anyone than Atkinson was often engaged in school. There he walked the main joker and clown, which did Rowen one of the most recognizable and memorable students.
At the age of 11, Rouen was transferred to the prestigious school Chorister, where at that time the future prime minister of British Tony Blair was studied. Later, the actor switched to a closed Saint Bis private school located in the north-west of England. It paid a lot of attention to various sports disciplines, in which Atkinson felt quite uncomfortable. Its physique was far from athletic, and training quickly bent.
Odnoklassniki often laughed over a weak boy, and then Rowan decided to take advantage of it. In the locker room, he paroded teachers, turning the ridicrafts into a clean and sincere admiration for the guys with their comedy talents. Thus, the young man masked shame who experienced from his own helplessness in sports, and tried to earn respect among the peers.
At the end of the college, the future actor began to experience awkwardness for his teenage clownade and closed, becoming a very serious and modest guy. At the career at the stage Atkinson did not even think about, serious prospects were paid in the head in the scientific path. Rowan entered the University of Newcastle at the Faculty of Electronics. Physics comedian adored since childhood and easily remembered huge formulas that can cause shiver from many people with a humanitarian mindshore.
Technical sciences have always been made by artist easily, so after graduating from the University of Rowen invited to Oxford, where he had to write a doctoral work. It was during the training in the life of the actor aware of the wonderful people appeared: Writer Richard Curtis and Composer Howard Gudall, who became his best friends and colleagues in the future career.
Atkinson was engaged in a hypocrousate and clown on the 2nd course, just hitting a good company that does not think of his life without a scene. He became a member of the Club of the Experimental Theater and the Dramatic Community of the Oxford University. Humorous sketches were very popular with students and teachers, which allowed Rouena to easily win several comedy festivals. The actor wrote scenarios wrote in co-authorship with his friend Curtis, who also achieved considerable success in the field of cinema.
After receiving the degree of Master Atkinson, as part of the theater group "Etceteras" went on tour in England.
Films
Rowan quickly earned the glory of the ascending star of the comedy scene of Britain. The first step to the world recognition was the show on the radio with the uncomplicated name "People Atkinson". The co-author of the actor turned out to be a friend and colleague Richard Curtis. Satirical interviews allegedly taken by Rowen in the same characters invented by him, enjoyed in great demand among the listeners.
Atkinson hit the television thanks to another comedian - Angeus Dave. Their joint speech was imprinted on the film and shown in one of the show. Subsequently, the actor was offered to remove its own program "Non-Nine-hour news", the producer of which was John Lloyd. It was not without old acquaintances. Howard Gudall became a composer and wrote unforgettable music for the show, and Richard Curtis created several episodes of the picture. Skatch-show took the air in October 1979 and immediately became incredibly popular in Britain.
After a successful debut on television, the actor was invited to the medieval comedy "black viper" with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Frem, who finally secured the glory of one of the most popular comedians of England for Atkinson.
Rowan appeared in front of the TV viewers as Edward, Edinburgh Graphy. Before the shooting began, the performer did not even imagine how the character would look and sound. Almost all the facial expressions, as well as the movement of Edward in the pilot episode of the Sitkoma steel of pure water improvisation, which turned out to be very successful. He also had to cut his hair according to the fashion of that era.
Worldwide fame came to the comedian after the debut as the character of Mr. Bina, who first appeared in 1989 in the New Year's half-hour release on the TV channel "Television Thames." Immediately after the new year, a full-fledged eponymous series "Mr. Bean". Rowen's hero came up with a student of Oxford, several times even appearing in this image at festivals.
In his work, the actor paid great attention to the facial expressions and plastic of the character, since the bin practically does not lead dialogues and is extremely rarely talking. This role helped Atkinson to step over the borders of Britain's popularity and interest the audience beyond.
For 5 years, the whole world has observed the entire world for the adventures of Mr. Bina, each series collected more than 20 million viewers from screens. The incredible success of the series allowed to create a full film, which was published in 1997 called "Mr. Bean". In the image of its most famous character, the actor has repeatedly appeared in numerous shows and television projects, pleaseing the audience with its colorful performances.
However, Rowan began to get tired of Bina and announced that the painting "Mr. Bean on vacation" will become its last appearance in this image. The film was released in 2007 and was first shown in Russia.
In the comedy "Rat running", Atkinson amounted to no less well-known comedians John Cliz, Wüpi Goldberg, Seth Green and John Lovitz. This cheerful company participated in racing for $ 2 million, lying in a provincial town's storage chamber for 700 km from the start place. Such a tote in humans made a casino owner to entertain rich customers.
In 2003, the comedy "Agent Johnny Inglish" came to the screens, where the actor moved from Mr. Bina's role and played the British intelligence agent Johnny Inglisha. Cam The film was a humorous parody of tapes about James Bond, a famous spy from the movies. Kinokartina enjoyed success, and Rouen himself was awarded the "EuropeanFilmaards" award as the best actor. In 2011, the continuation of "Agent Johnny Inglish: Reboot" was taken.
In 2012, Atkinson again appeared in the form of a cult hero at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games, where, within the comedy Sketch, accompanied on the synthesizer when the song "Chariots of Fire" is executed, playing only one key. After the game Rowan gave an interview in which he declared the end of Mr. Bina's career. According to the artist, the role was all heavier from the individual, because the character possesses an incredibly rich mimic.
Having been in Moscow in 2015, Rowan noted that only now, when the bin turned into a middle-aged man, it best understood how to play it, "than 25-35 years ago, when we just started."
The artist confused the fact that a 50-year-old man behaves on the screen too childish. However, this did not prevent Rowen to voice his hero in the animation series, released on the screens in 2014, as well as to play Bina in advertising a popular bar "Snickers".
On the shooting of the Atkinson roller, the growth holder in 181 cm, from nature flexible, was most afraid to climb the roof. Already a 2-meter altitude forced the actor nervous, reassured the idea that the team of professionals at the right moment would force.
In 2016, a picture appeared in Atkinson filmography, the main character of which is not a smile private detective. "Megre" was shot on the series of Romans of the Belgian writer George Siemeon on the Commissioner of the Criminal Police. Critics ambiguously accepted Rouen in this role, whereas the actor himself responded with delight to participate in the project, because in love with stories about Megre and dreamed of plunging into the atmosphere of Paris 50s.
However, the first invitation to the role of Atkinson, by reflection for 3 months, rejected - thought that he was not bred into the image, which was repeatedly embodied before him, so as not to copy. And besides the genre of detective, where the hero is not comic, scared. But the film crew, including the producer-son of the writer John Siemenion, waited during the year Rowen was waiting.
Commissioner Megre is the only character of the British actor, conducted in the car half a day, but never after the steering wheel. This fact of Atkinson was very frustrated. In addition, the auto racing amateur for the shooting time was banned in such dangerous events.
Personal life
Rowan is often joking that he does not like to give interviews, as journalists invariably ask him questions about his personal life, which, alas, not so rich in the events, as the life of his hero Mr. Bina. In his youth, the actor suffered from stuttering, it was especially difficult for him to the letter B. With age, the speech defect was weakened, but Atkinson still hears the uncommunicative.
Some time met with actress Leslie Ash, but broke up with her. In the late 80s, he met with the dressing school Sannetra Castra, who worked on the BBC TV channel. Their relationship developed very rapidly, and in 1990 they played a wedding. First, very modestly in a close family circle, and after they conducted a grand ceremony in the heart of London, where 80 people were invited.
In marriage, a couple were born two children - daughter Lily Grace and son Benjamin Alexander Sebastian. The girl went to the footsteps of the Father and played a couple of secondary roles in the paintings of Rouen, but eventually became the singer - performs soul in London clubs.
In 2013, Rowan filed for a divorce and soon began to appear in the company Actress Louise Ford, from whom he met a year earlier during a speech at the West-end theater in the play "Quartermaine's Terms". In 2015, the official divorce with Sannet was followed, and less than a month later, the artist invited Louise to live together in a country house. Whether Ford has become a legitimate wife of the actor and as the son called, born in December 2017, the chronicle silent.
Atkinson feeds weakness to exclusive cars and races, one time wrote articles for specialized magazines. In 2011, Rowan miraculously escaped death, disperse on MC Laren F1 worth £ 650 thousand to 240 miles / hour and crashing into a tree.
The movie star fleet make up BMW 328 and Aston Martin Virage, Rolls-Royce and Morris Traveler, hybrid Honda Civic and Mercedes-Benz 500e. Auto brand Aston Martin DB7 Vantage, which he managed the hero in the picture "Agent Johnny Inglish", also belongs to the artist leading.
Atkinson's personal accounts in social networks, there is a couple of fan pages in "Instagram" and "Twitter". There are pictures of Rowen himself, the actor in the image of Mr. Bina. It is possible that such ignoring the World Wide Web is due to human permissiveness and impunity that violates peace of mind. So, in 2016, the artist was a victim of a cruel draw: in Facebook published an announcement of his suicide.
Email for the celebrity and refute the evil joke had to seriously publish The Sun. However, in Atkinson's biography, this is not a single case of "death". Fortunately, every time - false.
Rowan Atkinson now
In 2018, the British actor continued the story about Supeertete Johnny Inglishe. And since the films of this series are a parody of a popular fighter about James Bond, the authors of Bondiana Robert Wade and Neil Pervis put a scenario. The picture was named "Agent Johnny Inglish 3.0".
This time an agent ingle with an assistant, in the role of which Ben Miller starred was to prevent a global Internet catastrophe. British Prime Minister, Suspiciously Looking on Teresa Mei, played Emma Thompson. According to her personal request, the agent already released on a well-deserved rest returns to the service to help colleagues, because their secret personality is disclosed. In the way of heroes, incredible adventures, dangerous tasks and comical situations, lifelong pursuing the unlucky espionage masters
The relationship between the film on Agent 007 and his funny double "provides" the participation of Olga Kurilenko, who has already signed the image of the Bond girl in "Quanta Mercy".
Filmography
- 1983-1989 - "Black Watching"
- 1990-1995 - "Mr. Bean" (serial)
- 1994 - "Four weddings and some funeral"
- 1997 - "Mr. Bean"
- 2001 - "Rat run"
- 2003 - "Agent Johnny Inglish"
- 2005 - "Silent in a rag"
- 2007 - "Mr. Bean on vacation"
- 2011 - "Agent Johnny Inglish: Reboot"
- 2016-2017 - "Megre"
- 2018 - Agent Johnny Inglish 3.0 "