Kevin Eldon
| Kevin Eldon | |
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Eldon in 2013
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| Born |
3 October 1959 Chatham, Kent, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Children | 1 |
Kevin Eldon (born 3 October 1959) is an English actor and comedian. He featured in British comedy television shows of the 1990s including Fist of Fun, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Big Train, Brass Eye and Jam. In 2013 he appeared in his own BBC sketch series, It's Kevin. In 2016 Eldon joined the HBO series Game of Thrones.
Eldon was born in Chatham, Kent. He has been a practising Nichiren Buddhist since 1990. He has a daughter with his long-term girlfriend Holly whom he met on the set of Hyperdrive where she was the art director.
Eldon occupied half a page in Oliver Gray's book called Volume - A Cautionary Tale of Rock and Roll Obsession, which includes coverage of punk-era Hampshire where, in 1980, Eldon fronted a Gosport-based band called The Time. He started on the stand-up circuit in the early 1990s performing an act in character as the political poet Paul Hamilton, but has also done stand-up as himself on occasions.
On the circuit, Eldon formed a friendship with the stand-up comedian Stewart Lee, which would later lead to an invitation to work with Lee on the radio series Lee & Herring's Fist of Fun with Lee's comedy partner Richard Herring. Lee and Herring would usually refer to him as "the actor Kevin Eldon", in reference to his claim to be an actor, rather than a comedian. Eldon's work sat well with that of Lee and Herring, and he continued to work with them on all their projects, including The Lee & Herring Radio Show, Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard Not Judy. He played recurring characters Simon Quinlank, the self-confessed King of Hobbies and 'Rod Hull' an nonsensical version of Rod Hull with a prosthetic limb and an obsession with jelly. In 1994 and 1997, he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part the comedy troupe Cluub Zarathustra other comedians included Roger Mann, Johnny Vegas, Simon Munnery and later Stewart Lee. They were given a Channel 4 pilot which led to the television series Attention Scum! The book You Are Nothing by Robert Wringham praises the performers' talent. From March 2009, Eldon appeared in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle in a number of the show's sketches most often with Paul Putner.
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