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Felix Dexter is an English actor, comedian, and writer. Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2005 est. ...
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A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ...
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Early life
Born in St Kitts in the West Indies, he moved to London with his family at the age of seven. Saint Kitts and Nevis is an island nation in the Caribbean. ...
London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Stand-up comedy He has won several awards for his stand-up.
Television Dexter's characters and comic writing have been featured on the BBC's The Lenny Henry Show and The Real McCoy. The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ...
Lenny Henry Fan Club has information about the show and has free membership! ...
The Real McCoy was a very successful BBC Television Comedy show which ran from (1991 - 1996) featuring an array of talented black comedy stars performing material aimed at an across-the-board black audience. ...
Dexter has also played more serious roles in dramas such as The Bill and Casualty The Bill is a long-running British television police procedural shown on ITV1, at 8PM on Wednesdays and Thursdays. ...
Casualty is a long-running BBC television drama serial, first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted on BBC One. ...
He has appeared on Absolutely Fabulous as Saffron's lover, John Johnston, and on the BBC docu soap Grumpy Old Men where over 35 year olds complain about modern life and other people. Absolutely Fabulous was a British sitcom written by and starring Jennifer Saunders, and co-starring Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha. ...
Grumpy Old Men was: The title of a 1993 movie, Grumpy Old Men The title of a 2000s BBC2 television show, Grumpy Old Men This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Theatre Dexter has appeared in a season of three of Shakespeare's Late Plays in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. In 2006 he will be starring in One flew over the Cuckoo's nest with Christian Slater and Alex Kingston in London's West End. William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ...
Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon is a town in Warwickshire, England. ...
Christian Slater (born Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins on August 18, 1969 in New York City) is an American actor. ...
Alex Kingston Alexandra Kingston (born March 11, 1963, in Surrey, England) is a British actress best known for her role as Elizabeth Corday on the NBC medical drama ER. Kingston grew up in Epsom, on the outskirts of London, the eldest of three daughters of a butcher and his German...
Dexter is a resident of north London.
External links - A review of one of his shows
- A review of another of his performances
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