Rowan Atkinson, fully Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born January 6, 1955 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a British actor and comedian, best known for his comic strip Mr. Bean" wowed television and film audiences.
Atkinson, the son of wealthy Durham farmers, attended Durham Cathedral Choir School.
He studied electrical engineering at Newcastle upon Tyne University; went to Oxford University to do a master's degree. Taking to the stage to quench his inner thirst, he set about perfecting the distorted face and manic comic genius that would soon make him famous.While studying at Oxford, he began working with actor Richard Curtis and composer Howard Goodall, and together they went to the Edinburgh Festival.
It was there that Atkinson's classic teacher sketch brought him fame. In 1979 the satirical television program Not the Nine O'Clock News introduced him to millions of British viewers and in 1981 he became the youngest person ever to have a one-man show in London's West End.
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In 1983 the first part of Blackadder, written by Atkinson and Curtis, hit British television screens.
The series chronicles the twisted relationship between four incarnations of the creepy and spineless Lord Blackadder and his obnoxious sidekick Baldrick as they journey through history from the Crusades to the end of WWI. On the show, Atkinson rose to become one of England's top comedy actors. It also led to the television series Mr. Bean (1990-1995), in which rubber-faced Atkinson played the role of a mute, almost mute, buffoon who waded through everyday situations made comical by their clumsiness and plot.
Working Class Beans transcends both the traditional boundaries of English humor and Blackadder's verbal response, and has won millions of admirers. Atkinson acknowledged the influence of French film actor Jacques Tati in creating the role: Tati's recurring character Monsieur Hulot displayed a similar wordless comic ineptitude in his mid-20th-century films. Mr. Bean won the Rose d'or at the 1990 Montreux Film Festival, the International Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts Program in 1991 and the American Cable Ace Award in 1994. At its peak it was the most popular British comedy on television, attracting around 18 million viewers .
In 1996 the series crossed the Atlantic to American television, and in 1997 Mr. Bean made it to the big screen in The Bean and later Mr. Bean (2007), which pits the titular anti-hero against France. The character also inspired an animated television series in 2002.
During this time, Atkinson appeared as Police Inspector Raymond Fowler on the television series The Thin Blue Line (1995–1996). Other films include The Witches (1990, based on the book by Roald Dahl); Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994); Rat Race (2001); and Johnny English (2003), a spy spoof that has spawned two sequels, Johnny English Reborn (2011) and Johnny English Strikes Again (2018).
He also appeared in the popular romantic comedy Actually Love (2003).
Despite his achievements, the intensely private Atkinson insisted he was not a jolly man. "I'm," she said, "basically a pretty quiet, boring person who happens to be an artist.In 2013 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to theater and charity.
