
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).

War

More Bad News

Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches

Ade in Britain

Bad News

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

ブラックアダー

Bottom Live: The Stage Show

The Young Ones

Would I Lie to You?

Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour

戦争と平和

Absolutely Fabulous

Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour

バーナビー警部

Bottom Mindless Violence

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

RSC Live: Twelfth Night

Jonathan Creek

Death in Paradise

Press Gang

French & Saunders

三体

Genius

Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity

Urban Myths

Natural World

The Comic Strip Presents...

エイリアン:アース

King Rocker

Upstart Crow

Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island

Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

グレアム・ノートン・ショー

The Pact

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story

Rocky Horror Show Live

The Strike

How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

Spine Chillers

Twisted Tales

Gadget Man

The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

警視バンクロフト

スター・ウォーズ/最後のジェダイ

Karlchen - Das große Geburtstagsabenteuer

If You See God, Tell Him

Happy Families

Prey

Surviving Disaster

Let's Dance for Comic Relief

Saturday Live

山賊の娘ローニャ

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

Filthy Rich & Catflap

真実を知る者

Dead on Time

Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door

A Spy Among Friends

Great British Menu

Cheat

Save Me

Eat the Rich

Richard Osman's House of Games

Rocky Horror Tribute Show

Miss Austen Regrets

Guest House Paradiso

The Supergrass

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live

Celebrity Mastermind

Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights

Going Live!

Blood

Captain Star

Interlude In Prague

Holby City

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye

Bottom: Exposed

The Rizen: Possession

Snakes and Ladders

Between the Covers

Out of Her Mind

An Audience with...

Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story

An Audience With Victoria Wood

This Morning

The Trick

The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'

Filthy Rich & Catflap

The Secret Policeman's Ball

The Pope Must Die

The Rizen

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

The One Show

Teenage Kicks

Catchphrase

Hardwicke House

Britain's Got More Talent

Slags

The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision

The Best of French & Saunders

The Yob

Les Dogs

Demonella

Summer School

Five Go Mad in Dorset

Four Men in a Car

Eddie Monsoon - a Life?

Four Men in a Plane

The Beat Generation

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

Dirty Movie

Susie

Gino: Full Story and Pics

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

Private Enterprise

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1

South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!

Oxford

Red Nose of Courage

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

Five Go to Rehab

News Hounds

Just Like That!

The Comic Strip

GLC: The Carnage Continues

Completely Bad News

Bottom Fluff

The Making of 'The Young Ones'

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration

Britain Beware!

Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special

Happy Families

French and Saunders' Christmas Carol

Comic Relief Does Fame Academy

Ade at Sea

Rita Rudner

The Great Sport Relief Bake Off

Ready, Steady, Cook

The Dangerous Brothers

Celebrity Catchphrase

Toad & Friends