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Rob Brydon was
born in Swansea, South Wales on 3rd May 1965. He grew up in Baglan nr
Port Talbot, before moving to Porthcawl where his interest in acting
flourished under the guidance of Porthcawl Comprehensive School's drama
teacher, Roger Burnel.
After school Rob
began a three year course at The Welsh College of Music and Drama in
Cardiff, but left midway through the second year to become a radio
presenter for nearby BBC Wales.
There then
followed six years of presenting work on local television and radio,
during which time Rob would perform the odd comedy pieces including, on
Radio 5's 'Rave' with Alan Thompson, the early days of Keith Barrett.
Whilst at the BBC Rob joined the Bath based improvisational comedy group
'More Fool Us', where he met Julia Davis with whom he would go on some
years later to make the award winning 'Human Remains'. Leaving Cardiff
for London, Rob worked mostly as a voice artist on animations and
commercials until his role as the traffic warden in 'Lock, Stock and Two
Smoking Barrels' prompted him to make a short video of comic characters
he had created. The video, 'Rob Brydon - An Extremely Unlucky Traffic
Warden' finished with Cardiff cabbie Keith Barrett chatting cheerily to
a camera fixed to the dashboard.
In the corporate
market, Rob appears as his outer ego Keith Barrett the divorced TV
presenter. |
