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Best known in the UK as the comically Machiavellian Blackadder, it is his TV and cinematic creation Mr Bean that has won him fans from the American mid-West to remote Africa, and gained the actor comparisons to Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Born in Newcastle, Atkinson was educated at Oxford where he teamed up with screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings And A Funeral) to write comedy reviews for the Oxford Playhouse and Edinburgh Fringe. In London, Atkinson became a TV star in Not The Nine O'Clock News but his first feature film appearance came in 1983 in Never Say Never Again. While filming The Tall Guy, Atkinson and Curtis came up with the largely silent (and occasionally malevolent) Mr Bean who, though mainly appearing on TV, took over 100 million dollars around the world when Bean was made into a movie.
