Acting
Adrian Edmondson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He went to Manchester University to study drama. Whilst he was there he met Rik Mayall, and the pair began performing as 20th Century Coyote. The act continued after university when Adrian & Rik moved to London, and they became two of the leading lights in the new 'alternative comedy' scene, performing at the newly established Comedy Store, and setting up their own club, The Comic Strip, with 'Peter Richardson', Nigel Planer, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Alexei Sayle. This spawned two 1980s TV series: The Young Ones (1982), and The Comic Strip Presents... (1982) In the 1990's Ade & Rik continued their partnership with a new series called Bottom (1991), which ran for three seasons and became a major success on the live circuit. It was basically a live sitcom, liberally sprinkled with slapstick humour, and the pair did 5 long tours between 1993 and 2003. Simultaneously, Adrian established himself as an actor, doing two improvised TV films under the Screen One and Screen Two umbrella, with director Les Blair: Screen Two: Honest, Decent and True (1986), and Screen One: News Hounds (1990) (winner of the BAFTA for best single drama). He was a regular in the hospital drama Holby City (1999) from 2005 - 2008. He took the lead in a drama documentary about the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in the series Surviving Disaster (2006), and appeared as Henry Austen in the TV movie Miss Austen Regrets (2008), the film Blood (2012), and the drama series Prey (2014). But his most notable dramatic role to date is that of Count Rostov in the BBC series War & Peace (2016).
Midsomer Murders
1997 · TV
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · TV
Death in Paradise
2011 · TV
Holby City
1999 · TV
The One Show
2006 · TV
3 Body Problem
2024 · TV
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994 · TV
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · TV
Natural World
1983 · TV
Blackadder
1983 · TV
Genius
2017 · TV
Would I Lie to You?
2007 · TV
Alien: Earth
2025 · TV
An Audience with...
1978 · TV
Absolutely Fabulous
1992 · TV
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 · TV
The Young Ones
1982 · TV
Celebrity Mastermind
2003 · TV
Richard Osman's House of Games
2017 · TV
Great British Menu
2006 · TV
Jonathan Creek
1997 · TV
Going Live!
1987 · TV
War and Peace
2016 · TV
Screen One
1989 · TV
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014 · TV
Celebrity Catchphrase
2018 · TV
Prey
2014 · TV
Press Gang
1989 · TV
Urban Myths
2017 · TV
Bottom
1991 · TV
Catchphrase
2013 · TV
French & Saunders
1987 · TV
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter
2014 · TV
Bergerac
2025 · TV
Between the Covers
2020 · TV
Britain's Got More Talent
2007 · TV
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
2003 · TV
Upstart Crow
2016 · TV
Saturday Live
1986 · TV
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976 · TV
Save Me
2018 · TV
A Spy Among Friends
2022 · TV
Bancroft
2017 · TV
Spine Chillers
2003 · TV
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
2009 · TV
Back to Life
2019 · TV
Gadget Man
2012 · TV
Twisted Tales
2005 · TV
Cheat
2019 · TV
This Morning
1988 · TV
One of Us
2016 · TV
The Pact
2021 · TV
The Great Sport Relief Bake Off
2012 · TV
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987 · TV
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012 · TV
Hardwicke House
1987 · TV
Happy Families
1985 · TV
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
2024 · TV
Rita Rudner
1990 · TV
Toad & Friends
2023 · TV
Ade in Britain
2011 · TV
Eat the Rich
1987 · Movie
Out of Her Mind
2020 · TV
Surviving Disaster
2006 · TV
If You See God, Tell Him
1993 · TV
Blood
2012 · Movie
Captain Star
1997 · TV
The Dangerous Brothers
1986 · TV
Bad News
1983 · Movie
Guest House Paradiso
1999 · Movie
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
1980 · TV
Miss Austen Regrets
2008 · Movie
The Pope Must Die
1991 · Movie
Dead on Time
1983 · Movie
Teenage Kicks
2008 · TV
Snakes and Ladders
1989 · TV
The Trick
2021 · Movie
Bottom: Exposed
2024 · Movie
The Supergrass
1985 · Movie
The Yob
1988 · Movie
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
1995 · Movie
Susie
1984 · Movie
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
2008 · Movie
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988 · Movie
Interlude in Prague
2017 · Movie
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021 · Movie
The Rizen
2017 · Movie
Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984 · Movie
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
2018 · Movie
Rocky Horror Show Live
2015 · Movie
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993 · Movie
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989 · Movie
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990 · Movie
Five Go Mad in Dorset
1982 · Movie
The Strike
1988 · Movie
The Comic Strip
1981 · Movie
Happy Families
1985 · Movie
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
1984 · Movie
Les Dogs
1990 · Movie
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990 · Movie
Red Nose of Courage
1992 · Movie
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008 · Movie
More Bad News
1988 · Movie
Completely Bad News
2019 · Movie
Four Men in a Car
1998 · Movie
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986 · Movie
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986 · Movie
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986 · Movie
Summer School
1983 · Movie
Slags
1984 · Movie
King Rocker
2020 · Movie
The Rizen: Possession
2019 · Movie
Dirty Movie
1984 · Movie
Demonella
1993 · Movie
Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door
1982 · Movie
Five Go to Rehab
2012 · Movie
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988 · Movie
Just Like That!
1989 · Movie
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
1993 · Movie
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984 · Movie
The Beat Generation
1983 · Movie
Private Enterprise
1986 · Movie
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004 · Movie
RSC Live: Twelfth Night
2018 · Movie
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
1998 · Movie
Bottom Fluff
1996 · Movie
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023 · Movie
The Making of 'The Young Ones'
2007 · Movie
News Hounds
1990 · Movie
The Best Birthday Ever
2022 · Movie
Oxford
1990 · Movie
Bottom Live: The Stage Show
1993 · Movie
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990 · Movie
Filthy Rich & Catflap
1987 · Movie
Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live
1999 · Movie
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
2007 · Movie
War
1983 · Movie
The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
2005 · Movie
Ade at Sea
2014 · TV
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
1997 · Movie
French and Saunders' Christmas Carol
1994 · Movie
Sam & Ade Go Birding
2026 · TV
Britain Beware!
2012 · Movie
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1983 · Movie
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour
2003 · Movie
Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour
1995 · Movie
The Best of French & Saunders
2002 · Movie
Four Men in a Plane
2000 · Movie
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
2001 · Movie
Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special
1992 · Movie
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
2006 · Movie
The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'
1999 · Movie
The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision
2008 · Movie
