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Rowan Sebastian Atkinson was born on 6 January 1955, in County Durham, England, and is a comedian, actor and screenwriter, best known worldwide for his iconic comedy character Mr. Bean. He is also known for projects such as “The Lion King”, and “Johnny English”. He’s been active in the industry since 1978, and all of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Rowan Atkinson? As of late-2017, sources estimate a net worth that is at $130 million, mostly earned through a successful career in comedy. He is considered one of the best comic actors ever, and as he continues his career, it is expected that his wealth will also continue to increase.

Rowan was educated at St. Bees School, and after matriculating, attended Newcastle University, graduating with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He continued his studies at Queen’s College, Oxford, pursuing an MSc in Electrical Engineering. However, in 1976, he gained national attention after performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Prior to the boom in his popularity, he was already performing in various groups such as the Experimental Theatre Club (ETC), and the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS).

Atkinson really started his career in entertainment on radio in 1979, in a show called “The Atkinson People”, conducting satirical interviews with fictional great men. He also began appearing in various television projects, including a pilot entitled “Canned Laughter”. In 1983, he took the lead role in the medieval sitcom entitled “The Black Adder”, and also the spinoff “Blackadder II” three years later in which he represented a descendant of the original character. The pattern was repeated in “Blackadder the Third” and “Blackadder Goes Fourth”, collectively making the series one of the most successful on BBC. His net worth increased significantly thanks to his success.

In 1990, he then created his most iconic character in “Mr. Bean”, firstly appearing in a half-hour special then in an extended TV series, until 1997 when the character found himself in the first film entitled simply “Bean”. He also appeared in other projects such as “The Curse of Fatal Death”, before appearing in another Mr. Bean film entitled “Mr. Bean’s Holiday”. His worldwide popularity is assisted by his ability in facial and body-language humour, such that he continued playing the role until 2012 to maintained popularity, until he stated that he intended to retire the character because he didn’t want to be type cast to the same role for the rest of his career. However, he then returned to playing the character in 2014. He also appeared in a sketch for the “BBC Red Nose Day”, in which he also played the character.

Aside from his television work, Rowan also had numerous film projects including voicing Zazu in “The Lion King”. He has also appeared in a lot of comedy films such as “Johnny English” – a spoof on James Bond – and the sequel “Johnny English Reborn”. He has also consistently appeared in various theatre productions; he reprised his role of Blackadder in a production, and also became a part of the play “Quartermaine’s Terms”. One of his latest projects is “Johnny English 3”, scheduled for a 2018 release.

For his personal life, it is known that Atkinson married Sunetra Sastry in 1990 and they have two children; they separated in 2014 and divorced a year later. Atkinson’s relationship with Louise Ford began in 2014, and she has announced that their first child should arrive in December 2017. He’s also well known for collecting a lot of classic cars.

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1. His characters: Mr. Bean and Blackadder
2. Wide range of humorous expressions

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson Quotes

• The more success you have, the more pressure you feel to make things to a good standard, for movies you make to make money and that sort of thing. One misses those days when you were 19 or 23 and you just did what made you laugh. What you and your friends thought was funny. And you did it, and if they laughed, great, and if they didn’t, it didn’t matter. As you get older you always think about everything so much, you’re so concerned that what you do should be good and should be successful that it’s the success you’re pursuing rather than the fun of doing it, which is what’s so great when you’re younger… What’s difficult for me on a movie is not playing Mr. Bean. The problem is the scripts. The problem is the shaping of the shots. The problem is the editing. The problem is all those things.
• I definitely do not have the wit of Blackadder. I definitely require scriptwriters to provide that. And I don’t think I’m as dark or cynical as Blackadder is in his view of the world. Probably I’m somewhere in between but closer to Mr. Bean. You know, the nice bits of Mr. Bean, because Mr. Bean has a very vindictive and selfish and nasty side to him. I hope I don’t have too much of that.
• I’ve always required a formal setting, a stage or a film or TV studio in which to perform. And above all I need to become somebody else. I’m certainly not a stand-up comedian in any sense.
• If I’m denied words, Mr. Bean’s physicality and attitude to life is what I seem to acquire. In 1989, we put him on TV and no doubt the motivation was a belief that we had a character that could live in other markets and other countries. I was always envious of the fact that so many British musical artists in the late eighties, Phil Collins or David Bowie or Duran Duran or someone like that, assumed an international marketplace for their product, whereas British comedians don’t. And I thought we have a tool here that will enable us to do that.
• [preparing to perform onstage the title role in Simon Gray’s ‘Quartermaine’s Terms’] It’s well known that tragedy and comedy are close bedfellows. It’s rare, though, that you see them placed in such intimacy. Like most tragic figures, ‘Quartermaine’ is unaware of his own tragedy. What I love about him is his optimism. You don’t tend to feel much sympathy for pessimistic people, but those who retain their optimism, despite the sadness of their lives, are interesting, engaging and sympathetic.
• [on being overwhelmed by fans at a Toronto shopping mall] It’s a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
• The casual ease which some people move from finding something offensive to wishing to declare it criminal – and are then able to find factions within government to aid their ambitions – is truly depressing.
• I remember looking up Johnny English (2003) in a film guide and it said ‘intermittently hilarious’ – quite a good description of five good jokes and a lot of longueurs. I find it frustrating that, apart from Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), I have yet to be involved in a film of which I am totally proud.
• Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach. And 10-year-old boys from different cultures have more in common than 30-year-olds. As we grow up, we acquire this sensibility that divides us.
• [commenting in 2004 on Britain’s proposed Racial and Religious Hatred Bill] To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas – even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
• People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I’ll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn’t the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson Important Facts

• He disliked the first series of Blackadder.
• Has trouble pronouncing words that begin with the letter B and followed by a vowel. He has to pause slightly to say them.
• His grandparents were all born in Durham. His paternal grandparents were Edward Atkinson, of Spennymoor, and Edith Gertrude Browell, of Crookhall. His maternal grandparents were Frank Bainbridge, of Hartlepool, and Ella Schofield, of Grosmont.
• He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to Drama and to charity.
• Attended Catherine Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William’s wedding.
• Has suffered with a stammer for many years, hence does not like giving interviews.
• On August 4, 2011 he was admitted to Peterborough City Hospital after crashing his McLaren Formula1 sports car. He suffered a light injury on his shoulder.
• He is the only actor to appear in every episode of Blackadder, Tony Robinson did not appear in the pilot.
• Owns a Aston Martin DB7 Vantage, which he used in the film Johnny English (2003).
• He had to pull out of his role in a West End production of Oliver in April 2009 due to hernia surgery.
• Along with Tony Robinson and Tim McInnerny, he is one of only three actors to appear in all four “Blackadder” series: The Black Adder (1982), Black-Adder II (1986), Black Adder the Third (1987) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989).
• Has publicly opposed the British Labour government’s plans to introduce new legislation on incitement to religious hatred, arguing that it would undermine free speech and thought (even citing the possible development of mind-reading technology), and that such measures would make political satire – which he considers seminal in a democracy – unworkable.
• He was one of the guests at Prince Charles’ and Camilla Parker-Bowles’ wedding.
• Once crashed his McLaren F1, a supercar valued at more than $1,000,000, into the back of a stationary Mini Metro, valued at around $600. The damage was not severe.
• He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Comedy Performance in 1982 for the 1981 season.
• Attended Cathedral Chorister School, Durham with Tony Blair.
• Races (and also crashes) his Aston Martins in the Aston Martins Owners club series.
• Education: Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK (electrical engineering); Oxford University, Oxford, UK (electrical engineering)
• Writes articles for CAR (a British car magazine).
• Owns various fast cars (Aston Martin Vantages, etc.).
• Has an HGV license (Heavy Goods Vehicle – the old legal term in the United Kingdom for goods vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight).
• Rides go-karts round his tennis courts and, according to Stephen Fry (his best man), “hasn’t got an ounce of showbiz in him”.
• Father of a son, Benjamin Alexander Sebastian Atkinson (born 1993) and a daughter, Lily Grace Atkinson (aka Lily Atkinson) (born 1995), with his wife Sunetra Sastry.

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