Peter Serafinowicz (born 10 July 1972) is an English comic actor, voice artist and composer of Polish descent. Image File history File links PeterSerafinowicz. ... is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Liverpool (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A voice actor (or voice artist) is a person who provides voices for computer and video games, puppet shows, amusement rides, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, stop motion, and animation works (including cartoons, animated feature films, animated shorts), and radio and television commercials. ... For other uses, see Polonia (disambiguation). ...

Career

Acting and writing

Serafinowicz made his broadcasting debut in 1993 on Radio 1 show The Knowledge, a spoof documentary about the music industry. From there he went on to perform in Radio 4 shows Weekending, Harry Hill's Fruit Corner, Grievous Bodily Radio and The Two Dannys. In 1998 he appeared on TV in Comedy Nation and You are Here. He also had a role in Simon Nye's written sitcom How Do You Want Me?. Week Ending. ... Harry Hills Fruit Corner was a radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. ... Simon Nye (born 29 July, 1958 in Burgess Hill, Sussex) is a British comedy writer best known for creating the hit sitcom Men Behaving Badly. ... How Do You Want Me? was a British television sitcom, broadcast on BBC2 and written by Simon Nye. ...

In 1999 he made a number of appearances in Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, playing principal character Tim Bisley's (Simon Pegg) arch-nemesis, Duane Benzie. He made another appearance in the series when it returned in 2001. This article is about the British television station. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see Pisces Iscariot. ... Simon John Pegg (born 14 February 1970 in Gloucester) is an English comedian, writer and film and television actor. ...

In 2001 Serafinowicz took the lead in BBC2 sitcom World of Pub, playing the same character as he had done in the show's run on Radio 4. He was also in The Junkies, the world's first internet sitcom. BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and... World of Pub is a radio and television sitcom, set in a pub in the East End of London, written by Tony Roche. ... The Junkies was a British sitcom pilot, produced in 2000 for a budget of just £3,500, and distributed over the Internet. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ...

In 2002 Look Around You debuted on BBC2. A series of 10 minute 70s school science video spoofs, in which Serafinowicz played a scientist, they were critically acclaimed. Serafinowicz wrote the show alongside Robert Popper, whom he met on the set of You are Here. The show returned in 2005 as a spoof of 80s Tomorrow's World, with Serafinowicz playing Peter Packard, one of the presenters. Look Around You is a BBC television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and, in the first series only, narrated by Nigel Lambert. ... Robert Popper is a comedy writer and actor, best known as co-creator of the mock BBC documentary Look Around You, in which he also plays the part of Jack Morgan. ... Tomorrows World was a long-running BBC television series, showcasing new (and often wacky) developments in the world of science and technology. ...

In 2003 he appeared in another Nye-written sitcom, Hardware, in which he played the affable Kenny. He reprised this role in the second series in 2004. Also in 2004 he appeared in British rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead, playing Pete, the tidy flatmate of principal characters Shaun and Ed. He also appeared in boxing movie The Calcium Kid. This article is about the sitcom. ... Shaun of the Dead is a zombie-themed romantic comedy (or rom zom com as it dubs itself) or zombie comedy released in 2004. ... The Calcium Kid is a British comedy film which was released in 2004. ...

In Sixty Six, the 2006 British film about a Jewish boy whose Bar Mitzvah is scheduled for the same day as the 1966 World Cup final, Serafinowicz plays Uncle Jimmy. Sixty Six is a 2006 film about a barmitzvah which takes place in London on the day of the 1966 world cup final. ... For the club competition, see FIFA Club World Cup. ...

In the week before the 2006 Academy Awards a video circulated on the Internet of a fake news item (called "O! News", a parody of E! News) about a new Oscar statue, in which Serafinowicz imitated Alan Alda, Paul McCartney and Al Pacino. A second O! News video later appeared, parodying the 2006 Apple Corps v. Apple Computer lawsuit. This attracted the interest of the BBC, and a pilot was comissioned for The Peter Serafinowicz Show. A full series is currently being broadcast on BBC2 on Thursday evenings at 21:30, the first show in the series was broadcast on 4 October 2007. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... E!: Entertainment Television is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite network. ... Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is a five-time Emmy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an iconic English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ... Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an Academy, Golden Globe, Tony, BAFTA, Emmy, and SAG award winning American actor who is best known for playing the roles of Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface and Michael Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy . ... Between 1978 and 2006 there have been a number of legal disputes between Apple Corps (owned by The Beatles) and the computer manufacturer Apple Computer (now Apple Inc. ... The Peter Serafinowicz Show is a BBC Two comedy sketch show written and starring Peter Serafinowicz. ... is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Serafinowicz had also made a number of guest appearances on television, including the comedy shows Smack the Pony and Hippies (both 1999), Black Books (2000), I'm Alan Partridge (2002) and Little Britain (2003), comedy drama Murder Most Horrid (1999) and ITV Drama series Marple (2005). He has made a number of guest appearances on both television and radio panel shows. He regularly appeared on The 99p Challenge and appeared on Have I Got News For You in 2005 and 2006, 8 Out of 10 Cats in 2005, and QI in 2003. He also appeared on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on 19 October 2007. The Best of Smack the Pony DVD Cover, featuring (left to right) Doon Mackichan, Fiona Allen and Sally Phillips. ... Hippies was a six part British television comedy series broadcast from the 12 November-17 December 1999. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Im Alan Partridge is a British sitcom. ... This article is about the British TV show Little Britain. ... Murder Most Horrid was a British television comedy starring comedian Dawn French. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. ... The 99p Challenge is a spoof panel game originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ... Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show; produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been running since 1990. ... 8 out of 10 Cats is a comedy panel game made by Zeppotron (a subsidiary of Endemol) for Channel 4. ... For other uses, see Qi (disambiguation). ... Friday Night with Jonathan Ross is a chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. ... is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Voice artist

Serafinowicz has done many adverts and voice-overs and is a talented impressionist. His most high profile role as a voice artist was as Darth Maul in the film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. His voice overdubbed that of Ray Park, who portrayed Darth Maul in costume. This appearance was referenced during the second series of Spaced and when he provided the voice for Darth Chef in an episode of South Park in 2006. Darth Maul is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Raymond Park (born August 23, 1974), better known as Ray Park, is a British stunt man and actor. ... The Return of Chef is the tenth season premiere of the Comedy Central series South Park. ... The Return of Chef! episode 140 of Comedy Centrals animated series South Park and aired on March 22, 2006. ... This article is about the TV series. ...

He impersonated Terry Wogan in a 2003 Comic Relief spoof of Blankety Blank, and he regularly utilises his array of impressions when performing. He also provided the voice of Captain Ardias in THQ's Warhammer 40,000: Firewarrior. Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE DL (born August 3rd 1938, in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland), more commonly known as Terry Wogan, is a radio and television broadcaster who has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom (UK) for most of his career. ... Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character or scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension. ... Blankety Blank was a British game show based on the American game show Match Game. ...

Composer

As a composer and musician, Serafinowicz produced virtually all of the music for Look Around You, under the pseudonym Gelg.

Personal life

Serafinowicz was born in Liverpool and went to Our Lady of the Assumption RC Primary School and St Francis Xavier Secondary School^[1]. He is brother-in-law to Graham Linehan, co-writer of Father Ted. For other uses, see Liverpool (disambiguation). ... Graham Linehan (born 1968) is an Irish television writer and director who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a number of popular television comedies. ... Father Ted was a popular 1990s television situation comedy set around the lives of three priests on the extremely remote (and completely fictional) Craggy Island off the west coast of Ireland. ...

He is in a relationship with Smack the Pony and Green Wing actress, Sarah Alexander. Their first child was born in April 2007. The Best of Smack the Pony DVD Cover, featuring (left to right) Doon Mackichan, Fiona Allen and Sally Phillips. ... Green Wing is an award-winning British television comedy set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital Trust. ... Sarah Alexander (born 3 January 1971) is an English actress, best known for her roles in various British comedy series. ...

His brother James is a writer and director,^[2] and can be seen wearing Peter's Liverpool Blue Coat School uniform at the beginning and end of each episode of the first series of Look Around You. The Liverpool Blue Coat School in Wavertree, Liverpool, United Kingdom, was founded in 1708 by Mr Bryan Blundell and Rev. ...

In October 2007, it was revealed that his grandfather was Szymon Serafinowicz, the first person in Britain to be charged under the 1991 War Crimes Act. Serafinowicz was accused of killing Jews while as a police chief in Nazi-occupied Belarus during World War II. He appeared at the Old Bailey in 1997, but was ruled unfit for trial due to poor health and died later that year. [3] [4] The War Crimes Act is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in 1991. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Old Bailey. ...

Work credits

On television:

• Spaced
• Look Around You (co-writer and producer)
• World of Pub
• Ted and Alice
• Black Books
• I'm Alan Partridge
• Hardware
• South Park (voicing Darth Chef)
• The Magical Legend Of The Leprechauns (voicing Dunlang, the Dullahan, also playing George Fitzpatrick)
• The Peter Serafinowicz Show (creator)

On radio: For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see Pisces Iscariot. ... Look Around You is a BBC television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and, in the first series only, narrated by Nigel Lambert. ... World of Pub is a radio and television sitcom, set in a pub in the East End of London, written by Tony Roche. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Im Alan Partridge is a British sitcom. ... This article is about the sitcom. ... This article is about the TV series. ... The Peter Serafinowicz Show is a BBC Two comedy sketch show written and starring Peter Serafinowicz. ...

• The 99p Challenge
• Lee and Herring
• Harry Hill's Fruit Corner
• The Two Dannys
• Danny Baker's All Day Breakfast Show^[3]

On film: The 99p Challenge is a spoof panel game originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ... Lee and Herring was a British radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1994 and 1995, named after the comedy double act who hosted it, Lee and Herring. ... Harry Hills Fruit Corner was a radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. ... The All Day Breakfast Show is a daily podcast which was launched on 15 March 2007. ...

• Shaun of the Dead, where he played Shaun and Ed's flatmate, Pete.
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, in which he voiced the Sith Lord Darth Maul.
• Sixty Six in which he plays "Uncle Jimmy"

In video games: Shaun of the Dead is a zombie-themed romantic comedy (or rom zom com as it dubs itself) or zombie comedy released in 2004. ... Film poster for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is a 1999 film by George Lucas starring Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, and Jake Lloyd. ... Darth Maul is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. ...

• Lego star wars, the voice of Darth maul (uncreditied)

References

See also

Basil Soper Basil Soper is a British actor and voice-over artist, best known for his work on the Basil Brush show and famous for presenting The Personal Injury Helpline adverts. ...

External links

• Peter Serafinowicz at the Internet Movie Database
• MySpace page for Thursdays are Funny