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Lenny Henry

Lenny Henry

  • 65 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer and stand-up comedian

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Lenny Henry: One Of A Kind, review

His achievements deserve more than a hagiography.

Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 26th October 2023

Lenny Henry set to film his acclaimed play August In England

Lenny Henry is turning his acclaimed one-man play August In England into a film. The comedian's playwriting debut received rapturous reviews and he is now seeking to screen a performance in cinemas or adapt the production into a feature film.

British Comedy Guide, 7th October 2023

Lenny Henry on his poignant, hilarious ode to Windrush

Russell T Davies helped Henry turn his family's tales of leaving the Caribbean for 50s Dudley into a moving period drama. He talks sexism, racism and wishing he was more like Scorsese.

Leila Latif, The Guardian, 6th October 2023

Lenny Henry to look back on entertainment career in ITV special

Lenny Henry: One Of A Kind, coming to ITV1 this autumn, will see the comedian looking back on his time in the entertainment spotlight.

British Comedy Guide, 11th August 2023

Lenny Henry lands two Channel 4 shows

Lenny Henry is making two new television shows for Channel 4. In Legends Of Comedy, he interviews Paul Whitehouse, Alexei Sayle, Sally Phillips and Romesh Ranganathan. He is also writing a dark comedy drama pilot for the channel called Kriss Kross.

British Comedy Guide, 16th May 2023

Birmingham billboard celebrates city's comedy legends

Joe Lycett, Meera Syal, Lenny Henry, Frank Skinner and Julie Walters are depicted in a digital mural in Birmingham to promote Sky's Comedy Rep festival.

British Comedy Guide, 15th May 2023

Sir Lenny Henry stars in his own one-man play about the injustices of the Windrush Scandal

The one-man show, which opens on Friday at London's Bush Theatre - is about how people who'd come from the Commonwealth and lived here for decades were denied legal rights, detained and deported from 2018 under the government's hostile environment policies on illegal immigration.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4, 3rd May 2023

Lenny Henry recalls racist abuse his family was subjected to

Actor is making his playwriting debut later this month with one-man show August in England.

Annabel Nugent, The Independent, 14th April 2023

Comic Relief's outlandish origin story - inside Nether Wallop festival

Was this impromptu event - a farmer's field in Hampshire that hosted comedy talents including Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Billy Connolly and Rik Mayall - where the first seed of Comic Relief was planted?

Alan Burles, The Guardian, 17th March 2023

Baldrick to read Blackadder Bedtime Story for Comic Relief

The BBC has revealed its plans for Red Nose Day, with Tony Robinson reprising his Blackadder character Baldrick for a Bedtime Story. Other Comic Relief sketches include one themed around Love Island and another around Eurovision.

British Comedy Guide, 9th March 2023

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