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| Peter Serafinowicz |
Peter Szymon Serafinowicz was born on the 10th of July 1972 in a 'rough part of Gateacre', which I believe means it was Belle Vale, Liverpool as he was 14 when the family moved to nearby Gateacre. He is of Belarusian and Polish descent and attended Our Lady of the Assumption Primary School and St Francis Xavier Secondary School. His first real inspiration was Peter Sellers as, when growing up in Liverpool, he used to listen to his father's tapes of 'The Goon Show' and dream of being a comedian or an impressionist.
He made his radio debut in 1993 on Radio 1's 'The Knowledge', a spoof documentary about the music industry. He went on to perform voice work for the Radio 4 series 'Weekending', 'Harry Hill's Fruit Corner' and 'Grevious Bodily Radio'.
On the 1st of May 1997 he was in 'The Election Night Armistice' as Moz Bingham, the fictional press secretary to the then shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, where he verbally abused the BBC's Nick Robinson in a spoof phone call. He also appeared on screen in 'Murder Most Horrid' and then as Brian May in 'Comedy Nation' on BBC2.
His role as Dean Yardley in the Dylan Moran 'How Do You Want Me?' brought him further attention and he returned to working alongside Moran in 2002 with a cameo in 'Black Books'. Roles followed in the series ' Chambers' (with John Bird) and in 'World of Pub', which ran for three years. From there he built up a strong character comedy career and seems to have a recurring role as Simon Pegg's nemesis, appearing both as Duane Benzie in the magnificent 'Spaced' and as Robin in the underrated sitcom 'Hippies'. His distinctive voice landed him the vocal role for Darth Maul, portrayed by Ray Park, in 'Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace'.
He remained busy throughout the early noughties with work on both Radio 4 and on TV, including appearing briefly in the pilot of 'Little Britain' in 2002 and then in 2004 he appeared in British rom-zom-com (romantic-zombie-comedy) 'Shaun of the Dead' playing Pete, the uptight flatmate of principal characters Shaun and Ed.
However it was BBC Two's spoof schools science show 'Look Around You', which he co-created with Robert Popper, that made his reputation – and earned him a Bafta and a British Comedy Award nomination in 2003.
His other television roles include 'Hardware' and 'Smack The Pony' plus countless panel games. He landed his own BBC Two show, which he wrote and produced with his brother James, on the back of a spoof 'O! News' clip they made about the Oscars, which was a send-up of the celebrity-fixated 'E! Entertainment' channel which proved a huge hit on YouTube.This resulted in a full series being broadcast on BBC Two in 2007 (with a Christmas special in 2008). For his performance, Peter was presented with the Best Entertainer prize at the 2008 'Rose d'Or' ceremony with the series also nominated for Best Comedy Programme at the 2009 Bafta Television Awards.
In July 2013, he made his film directing debut with the dark comedy film ' I See What You Did There' which he wrote, along with Danny Wallace.
His first starring role in the USA was a big budget comedy superhero show for Amazon called 'The Tick'. Created by Ben Edlund, originally as a doodled mascot for a comic shop newsletter in the mid-1980s, 'The Tick' is an affectionate parody of the Superman archetype which premiered on 19th of August 2016.
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