Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson: comics lose authority as they get older

It's no laughing matter when you are a comedy legend the wrong side of 60. Rowan Atkinson claims that even the greatest comic actors lose their power to send audiences into paroxysms of mirth after they hit middle age.

Young people don't own comedy - and nor should they

How dull would our lives be if we, in effect, introduce a mandatory retirement age for wisecracks?

Rowan Atkinson gets serious as partner moves in

Girlfriend Louise Ford settles doen in his £4.6m 3-bed cottage.

When MI7 hears of a plot to assassinate the Chinese premier, the only man to turn to is disgraced agent Johnny English, who is coming to transcendental terms with his utter incompetence in a Tibetan monastery. More amiable slapstick and gurning from Rowan Atkinson, abetted by a Bond-like Dominic West, M-like Gillian Anderson and retro-Bond-babe Rosamund Pike.

Rowan Atkinson's 'quickie' divorce is finalised

Rowan Atkinson and his wife of 24 years have been granted a 'quickie divorce' after he left her for Louise Ford.

Blackadder: 8 brilliant moments

Talk of a possible Blackadder comeback has got us all excited, even if this isn't the first time we've been told a revival for Rowan Atkinson's devious anti-hero is on the cards.

Rowan Atkinson turns up at old school for prize night

Hollywood star Rowan Atkinson surprised pupils by turning up to their last ever prize assembly... after hearing his old school was closing after 432 years.

Rowan Atkinson sells McLaren F1 supercar for £8 million

Rowan Atkinson has sold his McLaren F1 supercar for £8 million - four years after 'Britain's most expensive' car crash.

The art of making faces: 'Mr Bean' turns 25

Bumbling Mr Bean, a character created by actor Rowan Atkinson, still provides the laughs more than two decades on.

Rowan Atkinson talks about 25 years of Mr Bean

"I am getting older, and he naturally has to get older with me," said Rowan Atkinson, now 60, "and that's why I've done him very little in recent years. Because I don't particularly want him to get old."