Justin Edwards
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Justin Edwards is an English actor and writer.
Born in Hampshire
, Justin studied at Manchester University, before training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
. He was a member of sketch trio The Consultants
, alongside Neil Edmond
and James Rawlings
. They won the Perrier award (Best Newcomer) at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and went on to write and record four series for BBC Radio 4
between 2002 and 2005. Justin was nominated for the main Perrier Award in 2005 in the guise of his booze-sodden children's entertainer Jeremy Lion
.
His television work includes the role of Ben Swain in political comedy The Thick Of It
, the lead role in Channel Five sitcom Respectable
, as well as parts in Black Books
, Reggie Perrin, The Old Guys
, Harry and Paul, Not Going Out
, Skins
, Secret Diary Of A Call Girl
, Love Soup
, Peep Show
The Trip
and many others.
He is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4, appearing on The News Quiz
, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
, The Odd Half Hour, Double Science
, Mr Blue Sky and "Listen Against" amongst others. In September 2011 he took over from Miles Jupp
as the host of Newsjack
the topical sketch show on Radio Four Extra. He and Miles performed together on Miles' Radio Sitcom "In and Out Of The Kitchen".
His musical and songwriting abilities have led to several appearances on the BBC Radio 2
series Jammin with Roland Rivron and Out to Lunch. He wrote and performed the music for all four series of The Consultants
, and had a successful run at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival with his one man musical show "Unaccompanied As I Am". He has written the sitcoms Double Science and Buy Me Up TV for radio, and is one of the main writers on the BAFTA-nominated children's show Sorry, I've Got No Head
as well as co-devising and writing the children's sitcom "Pixelface"
His film work includes The Duchess
, Albatross
, Virgin Territory
as well as playing Giant Haystacks and Gan
in Tim Plester
's short films World of Wrestling and Blakes Junction Seven
He is married to the comedian Lucy Porter
and they have one daughter, Emily.
Born in Hampshire
Hampshire
Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...
, Justin studied at Manchester University, before training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts is an independent drama school situated in the Wood Green area of North London. It was founded in 1945 by Peter Coxhead and Ralph Nossek as 'The Mountview Theatre Club', an amateur repertory company staging a new production for a six-day run every second week...
. He was a member of sketch trio The Consultants
The Consultants
The Consultants are a comedy sketch team who first reached public prominence in August 2002 where they won the Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe....
, alongside Neil Edmond
Neil Edmond
Neil Edmond is a British actor and comedy writer.Neil was a member of the comedic sketch trio The Consultants, alongside James Rawlings and Justin Edwards. In 2002 they won the Perrier award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Consultants went on to record four series for BBC...
and James Rawlings
James Rawlings
James Rawlings is a British actor and comedy writer for stage, film, television and radio.Rawlings is a member of the comedic sketch trio The Consultants, alongside Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. In 2002 they won the Perrier award Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival...
. They won the Perrier award (Best Newcomer) at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and went on to write and record four series for BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
between 2002 and 2005. Justin was nominated for the main Perrier Award in 2005 in the guise of his booze-sodden children's entertainer Jeremy Lion
Jeremy Lion
Jeremy Lion is a character created by British actor and comedian Justin Edwards.Lion is an alcoholic children's entertainer with a terrifying array of props, and a great fondness for Tia Maria and Matchmakers...
.
His television work includes the role of Ben Swain in political comedy The Thick Of It
The Thick of It
The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It was first broadcast on BBC Four in 2005, and has so far completed fourteen half-hour episodes and two special hour-long episodes to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's...
, the lead role in Channel Five sitcom Respectable
Respectable (TV series)
Respectable is a British sitcom, first shown in six episodes from 30 August to 4 October 2006 on Five; it was later repeated on Paramount Comedy 1....
, as well as parts in Black Books
Black Books
Black Books is a British sitcom television series created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan and produced by Nira Park, first broadcast on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2004...
, Reggie Perrin, The Old Guys
The Old Guys
The Old Guys is a British comedy television series that revolves around two aging housemates: Tom Finnan and Roy Bowden . The pair live across the street from Sally , whom they both find attractive. Tom moved in with Roy after Roy's wife Penny deserted him...
, Harry and Paul, Not Going Out
Not Going Out
Not Going Out is a British television sitcom that has aired on BBC One since 2006. Starring Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Sally Bretton, Miranda Hart and Katy Wix, it was initially written by Mack, Andrew Collins, Paul Kerensa, Simon Evans and Peter Tilbury, but now features contributions from other...
, Skins
Skins (TV series)
Skins is a BAFTA award-winning British teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of college. The controversial plot line explores issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness , adolescent sexuality, substance abuse and death...
, Secret Diary Of A Call Girl
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a British television drama broadcast on ITV2 from 2007-2011 based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous "Belle de Jour," starring Billie Piper as Belle, a high-class London call girl. The series was written by Lucy Prebble, who is also known as the author of The...
, Love Soup
Love Soup
Love Soup is a British television comedy-drama produced by the BBC and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005. It stars Tamsin Greig as Alice Chenery and Michael Landes as Gil Raymond . The series is written by David Renwick of One Foot in the Grave fame, and was produced by Verity Lambert...
, Peep Show
Peep Show (TV series)
Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The television programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb themselves, amongst others. It has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 2003. The show's seventh series makes it...
The Trip
The Trip (2010 TV series)
The Trip is a BAFTA award-winning television sitcom series which was first broadcast on BBC Two and BBC HD in the United Kingdom. The series stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalised versions of themselves undertaking a restaurant tour of northern England.The six episode series, which is...
and many others.
He is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4, appearing on The News Quiz
The News Quiz
The News Quiz is a topical panel game broadcast on British radio BBC Radio 4.-History:It was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently it was chaired by Simon Hoggart, Barry Took , and then again by Simon Hoggart until March 2006. Hoggart was replaced by Sandi Toksvig in...
, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a British radio comedy programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2005 with a second series in 2006, a third in 2007 and a fourth in 2008. Series 2, 3 and 4 of the show were broadcast in the popular Friday evening slot, which it has shared with The...
, The Odd Half Hour, Double Science
Double Science
Double Science is a British sitcom on BBC Radio 4. It follows Colin Jackson and Kenneth Farley-Pittman, two chemistry teachers existing in a work-life balance haven at the fictional Forresters Sixth Form College...
, Mr Blue Sky and "Listen Against" amongst others. In September 2011 he took over from Miles Jupp
Miles Jupp
Miles Jupp is a British actor and comedian, probably best known as Archie in the children's television series Balamory....
as the host of Newsjack
Newsjack
Newsjack is a satirical sketch show hosted by Justin Edwards. Until September 2011, it was presented by Miles Jupp, and first broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on 4 June 2009. The series is notable for having an "Open door" policy on writing, meaning that unsolicited writers without contract to the BBC can...
the topical sketch show on Radio Four Extra. He and Miles performed together on Miles' Radio Sitcom "In and Out Of The Kitchen".
His musical and songwriting abilities have led to several appearances on the BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...
series Jammin with Roland Rivron and Out to Lunch. He wrote and performed the music for all four series of The Consultants
The Consultants
The Consultants are a comedy sketch team who first reached public prominence in August 2002 where they won the Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe....
, and had a successful run at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival with his one man musical show "Unaccompanied As I Am". He has written the sitcoms Double Science and Buy Me Up TV for radio, and is one of the main writers on the BAFTA-nominated children's show Sorry, I've Got No Head
Sorry, I've Got No Head
Sorry, I've Got No Head is a CBBC children's sketch comedy. The programme's cast originally consisted of William Andrews, David Armand, James Bachman, Marcus Brigstocke, Anna Crilly, Justin Edwards, Mark Evans, Mel Giedroyc, Marek Larwood and Nick Mohammed...
as well as co-devising and writing the children's sitcom "Pixelface"
His film work includes The Duchess
The Duchess (film)
The Duchess is a 2008 British drama film based on Amanda Foreman's biography of the 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. It was released in September 2008 in the UK...
, Albatross
Albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes . They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific...
, Virgin Territory
Virgin Territory
Virgin Territory is a 2007 romantic comedy film based upon Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It has also been known under the working titles The Decameron, Angels and Virgins, Guilty Pleasures and Chasing Temptation. The film's Italian title Decameron Pie pays tribute to both the title of the...
as well as playing Giant Haystacks and Gan
Olag Gan
Olag Gan is a fictional character from the British science fiction television series Blake's 7, played by David Jackson ....
in Tim Plester
Tim Plester
Tim Plester is a British playwright and actor who lives and works in London.Plester graduated in 1994 with a BA in theatre at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, and went on to obtain an MA in playwriting studies from Birmingham University in 1997...
's short films World of Wrestling and Blakes Junction Seven
He is married to the comedian Lucy Porter
Lucy Porter
Lucy Donna Porter is an English actress, writer and comedienne.She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain. She has also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel shows, including Quote.....
and they have one daughter, Emily.