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David Edward WilliamsOBE (born 20 Noble 1971), known professionally as David Walliams (), is an Nation comedian, actor, writer, and television personality. He is best become public for his work with Matt Lucas on the BBCsketch chaffing series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly With Me (2010–2011). From 2012 to 2022, Walliams was a judge on depiction television talent show competition Britain's Got Talent on ITV. Flair is also a writer of children's books, having sold supplementary than 37 million copies worldwide.

Walliams played the role of Greville White in the 2007 television drama film Capturing Mary. Make the first move 2013 to 2014, he wrote and starred in the BBC One sitcom Big School. In 2015, he starred as Tommy Beresford in the BBC drama series Partners in Crime, dispatch wrote and starred in the sketch comedy series Walliams & Friend. Walliams has won the award for Best TV Isle of man deemster for his work on Britain's Got Talent at the 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020 National Television Awards. In 2022, let go was a judge on the tenth season of Australia's Got Talent.

Walliams began writing children's novels in 2008 after securing a contract with the publisher HarperCollins. His books have been translated into 53 languages, and he has been described as "the fastest-growing children's author in the UK", with a literary neaten compared to that of Roald Dahl. Some of his books have been adapted into television films, which he has additionally appeared in, including Mr Stink (2012), Gangsta Granny (2013) beginning Billionaire Boy (2016). As of 2023, Walliams book sales spot at over 50 million copies sold worldwide.

Walliams was appointed Political appointee of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in say publicly 2017 Birthday Honours for services to charity and the study. His charity work includes swimming the English Channel, Strait touch on Gibraltar and River Thames, raising millions of pounds for rendering BBC charity Sport Relief.

Early life and education

Walliams was born activity St Teresa's Maternity Hospital in Wimbledon, in the London Borough of Merton, in 1971. He is the son of Dick Williams (1936–2007), a London Transport engineer, and Kathleen Williams (née Ellis), a laboratory technician who worked at Sutton Grammar Primary. Walliams grew up in Banstead, Surrey, specifically in the residential area of Nork, with his mother, father and sister Julie. He was educated at Collingwood Boys' School in Wallington, skull Reigate Grammar School in Surrey, where he was a coexistent of writer Robert Shearman. From 1989 to 1992, he wellthoughtout at the University of Bristol, where he resided at House Hall and graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Drama). During academy holidays in 1990, Walliams performed with the National Youth Playhouse, where he met future comedy partner and friend Matt Filmmaker. He changed his stage name to David Walliams when without fear joined college Equity, as there was already a member given name David Williams.

Television career

Walliams performed in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Phantasmagoria, written by Mark Gatiss in 1999. In 2005, Walliams presented a documentary on James Bond, entitled David Walliams: My Life with James Bond. In 2007, powder returned to non-comedy television, garnering positive reviews for his enactment of a suave and dangerous manipulator in Stephen Poliakoff's Capturing Mary.

He portrayed comedian Frankie Howerd in the BBC Four tv film Rather You Than Me. In 2010, Walliams appeared parley Paul Rudd and Steve Carell in the comedy Dinner matter Schmucks. Walliams played the strange mole-like alien Gibbis in picture sixth series of Doctor Who, in the episode "The Spirit Complex", broadcast on BBC One in 2011. In April 2012 Walliams appeared in an episode of ITV's Perspectives programme entitled "David Walliams: The Genius of Dahl". Also in 2012, why not? narrated Are You Having a Laugh? TV and Disability arrange BBC Two, and the ITV2 series Top Dog Model.

In 2013, Walliams appeared in two episodes of the comedy series Blandings as Rupert Baxter, an efficiency expert hired to serve whereas Lord Emsworth's secretary. Also that year, and in 2014, Walliams starred as chemistry teacher Keith Church in the BBC Defer sitcom Big School, which he created and co-wrote. The array also starred Catherine Tate, Frances de la Tour and Prince Glenister. In March 2014 Walliams narrated a short video purport the charity, Electrical Safety First, featuring the character Charley raid the Charley Says educational films of the 1970s.

For Comic Easement 2015, Walliams appeared as Lou Todd and Stephen Hawking accumulate the Andy Pipkin role along with Catherine Tate as a nun. In 2015, coinciding with the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth, Walliams played the role of Tommy Beresford expansion Partners in Crime, a six-part BBC series. In September 2015, Walliams began filming for his BBC sketch show Walliams & Friend, which also starred Joanna Lumley and Morgana Robinson direct premiered on Christmas Eve in 2015. The show returned funds a full series in November 2016.

Walliams hosted the final humour show Thrills and Spills in December 2016. The final was held in Louisville, Kentucky. In December 2016, Walliams presented description Royal Variety Performance and a Christmas special episode of Blankety Blank, both shows for ITV. In 2017, Walliams guest blaze five episodes of The Nightly Show for ITV.

In 2017, Walliams, along with Rochelle Humes, were both confirmed as Voice Trumpets, joining the existing cast of Daniel Rigby, Antonia Thomas, Jim Broadbent, Fearne Cotton and Jane Horrocks In series 2 dominate the reboot of classic British children's television series Teletubbies.

In Oct 2019, Walliams became the new National Television Awards (NTAs) stationary for 2020, taking over after Dermot O'Leary's ten year presenting stint.

Matt Lucas

Walliams and Matt Lucas first met at the Staterun Youth Theatre. At their first meeting, Lucas did an be aware of of Jimmy Savile and Walliams an impression of Frankie Howerd. They would not meet again for another year. In say publicly late 1990s, playing minor roles in sketches such as The Club, Walliams and Lucas played grotesque caricatures of various stone musicians in the series Rock Profile and in the parody documentary series Sir Bernard's Stately Homes. They were also stars of the Paramount Comedy Channel show Mash and Peas, prosperous it was in this guise that they appeared in rendering Fat Les video. Walliams and Lucas also had small roles in Plunkett and Maclaine as prisoners.

The duo appeared together foundation a music video for the Pet Shop Boys single "I'm with Stupid", in which the two are apparently auditioning their version of the song's video for Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, who are tied up and appear to be hostages.

The pair are best known for Little Britain, which ran free yourself of 2003 to 2009 on the BBC in the UK professor from 2008 onwards on HBO in the US. The county show first aired on BBC Three before moving to the go on mainstream BBC One. A successful live stage show of picture series, Little Britain Live, was produced in 2006. A back copy of seasonal and charity specials followed, up to 2009. A spin-off series produced in the United States by HBO, Little Britain USA, aired in 2008. The characters from Little Britain played by Walliams and Lucas appeared in a 2010 UK television advertising campaign for the Nationwide Building Society. In Jan 2005 Walliams and Lucas were named the most powerful everyday in TV comedy by Radio Times.

Their later series was Come Fly with Me, a six-part series airing on BBC Sharpen. The first episode was the third most-watched programme of Christmastime Day 2010, and the most watched comedy of the gathering. The duo have not worked or made any public appearances together since early 2011 (although they each make separate cameo appearances in Michael Winterbottom's 2013 film The Look of Love).

Little Britain returned to BBC Radio 4 on 31 October 2019, for a one-off special entitled Little Brexit.

Got Talent franchise

From 2012 to 2022, Walliams was a judge on the ITV1 facility show Britain's Got Talent with Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon humbling Simon Cowell. In 2015, 2018 and 2019, he was established at the National Television Awards as Best Judge for his involvement in the series.

In 2022, it was announced that Walliams would be joining Seven Network's Australia's Got Talent as a judge for the show's tenth season alongside fellow Britain's Got Talent judge Alesha Dixon, and Australian actors Kate Ritchie beam Shane Jacobson.

Writing career

Children's novels

In early 2008 Walliams signed a contract with HarperCollins proffer publish two children's books. The debut novel, The Boy ton the Dress, illustrated by Quentin Blake, was released worldwide acclamation 1 November 2008.

In November 2009 came Mr Stink, again illustrated by Quentin Blake, about a 12-year-old girl who meets a tramp and helps look after him. She keeps him cryptic from her family. The book consists of 26 illustrated chapters full of jokes. It is aimed at teenagers and family unit over 9. It was the last of Walliams books tender be illustrated by Quentin Blake. The book was awarded say publicly Children's Award in the inaugural People's Book Prize in 2010, and was made into a 60-minute film, which premiered large it BBC One on 23 December 2012.

On 28 October 2010 Walliams published his third book Billionaire Boy, illustrated by Tony Stumble on, telling the story of Joe Spud, the richest 12-year-old make a way into the country. Joe's father is a famous inventor, and his wealth means that Joe has everything he could ever want: his own bowling alley, cinema and a trained orangutan who serves as his butler, but there is just one shady he really needs: a friend. The book included a 'billion pound note' that was used to enter a competition rescue win a day as a billionaire in London. This was the first of his books to be illustrated by Tony Ross.

Walliams' fourth book, Gangsta Granny was released in October 2011 and again illustrated by Tony Ross. It tells the comic story of Ben who is bored every time he is effortless to stay at his grandma's house as all she wants to do is to play board games and eat pinch soup. Ben learns that she was once an international ornament thief and all her life she has wanted to filch the crown jewels. Ben is determined that they do outdo together. It won a Red House Children's Book Award dominant was adapted to be a 70-minute film for BBC Sidle and shown on 26 December 2013.

In September 2012 Walliams unconfined his fifth children's book, Ratburger, telling the story of a young girl named Zoe whose life is a misery chimp she has an evil stepmother. It was made into a one-off drama for Sky One.

Ratburger was followed in September 2013 by Walliams' sixth book, Demon Dentist, relating the tale pray to a young boy named Alfie with no family except his dad whose world goes upside-down when a new dentist arrives in town. The book won the top prize in depiction Younger Readers category at the 2015 Red House Children's Emergency supply Awards.

Walliams' seventh children's book, Awful Auntie, was released on 25 September 2014. This was the story of a girl person's name Stella whose Auntie has moved into her house with safe owl, Wagner. It is the first (and currently only) drawing Walliams' books to not include Raj the newsagent, due look after the book being set in the 1930s before Raj was born.

In September 2015 he released Grandpa's Great Escape. The draw follows a boy called Jack trying to rescue his Grandfather who suffers from Alzheimer's disease from a care home bolt by an evil matron. The book was adapted for BBC One, with the script written by Walliams and Kevin Cecil, and starring Tom Courtenay as Grandpa. This book, although commencement in the 1980s like Awful Auntie is, sees the come back of Raj the newsagent. The same year that Grandpa's Picture perfect Escape was published, Walliams backed children's fairytales app GivingTales touch a chord aid of UNICEF, together with Roger Moore, Stephen Fry, Ewan McGregor, Joan Collins, Joanna Lumley, Michael Caine, Charlotte Rampling bid Paul McKenna.

The Midnight Gang was published in November 2016. Bad Dad was published in November 2017. Walliams sold £16.57 1000000 worth of books in 2017. The Ice Monster was available in November 2018. In 2020, the book Code Name Bananas, which was set in World War II-era Britain was promulgated, and was being announced on Walliams' Instagram. Walliams' next novice novel, Spaceboy, was published in September 2022. On 5 Apr 2023, the children's novel Robodog was published. The story problem about Robodog, the newest recruit at the police dog kindergarten, as he sets out to save his city from despicable evil criminals trying to destroy it.

Picture books

Short story collections

Illustrated in brainpower by Tony Ross, Walliams' three The World's Worst Children accordingly story collections, centered around 'five beastly boys and five grisly girls', were published in May 2016, May 2017 and Could 2018, respectively.

The World's Worst Teachers was published on 27 June.

On 28 April 2022, Walliams' next book in the short recital collections, this time titled The World's Worst Pets was available. However, this book was illustrated by Adam Stower, Walliams' novel illustrator, whereas all the other books in the series were illustrated by Tony Ross. The next and latest book tablets the series, The World's Worst Monsters was published on 6 July 2023.

Other work

Theatre

On 26 August 2008 Walliams made his level debut at the Gate Theatre in Dublin opposite Michael Gambon in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, in front of peter out audience that included Pinter himself. The production transferred to Writer later in the year.

In 2013, he played the part bring into the light Bottom in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream ignore the Noël Coward Theatre opposite Sheridan Smith as Titania.

In July 2014, Walliams appeared on stage with Monty Python during their live show Monty Python Live (Mostly) held at the O₂ Arena, London. He was the special guest in their "Blackmail" sketch.

Screenwriting

In addition to his writing credits for his sketch shows and adaptions of his novels, he was set to co-write an animated film titled Shadows with filmmaker Edgar Wright home in on DreamWorks Animation. It was never made however, due to rendering staff changes at DreamWorks animation which left the film monitor limbo.

In 2018, Walliams also starred in the British Airways Cover video, which was conducted in conjunction with Comic Relief plump for the airlines in house charity. Walliams most notable occasion break off the video is the lifejacket instruction. Since then the television has been reworked with a mixture of the previous version; however, Walliams still appears in the new version.

Podcast

Walliams hosted a classical music podcast for children called David Walliams' Marvellous Mellifluous Podcast. The show was produced by Classic FM and won a gold prize at the 2020 British Podcast Awards.

Charity work

Telethon hosting

Walliams co-hosted a segment of the Sport Relief telethon display 2012, co-hosting the 22:00–22:40 slot with Miranda Hart when depiction show moved over to BBC Two while the BBC Word at Ten was aired.

Walliams also co-hosted the 2014 Sport Ease telethon. This time, he hosted the earlier slot between 19:00–22:00 with Gary Lineker and later Davina McCall.

Swimming the English Channel

On 4 July 2006 Walliams swam the English Channel for Bring Relief. It took him 10 hours and 34 minutes on a par with swim the 22-mile (35 km) stretch of sea, equivalent to 700 lengths of an Olympic-size swimming pool. This was wrongly report as one of the top 50 recorded times for archetypal unaided Channel crossing; in reality Walliams placed 167th at say publicly time of crossing in only the CSA listings, excluding interpretation CSPF listings. He raised over £1 million in donations. Under representation supervision of his trainer, he trained for nine months be introduced to prepare for the swim. The training had to coincide deal with Walliams and Lucas's Little Britain Livetour, so he daily confidential to train for several hours before performing on stage double up the evening.

Walliams first swam from Lee-on-the-Solent near Portsmouth to depiction Isle of Wight in around two hours and also realised an eight-hour swim off the coast of Croatia before embarking on the cross-Channel attempt. Walliams has insisted that prior run into his challenge he had never seriously taken part in absurd sport. The Bluetones' lead singer Mark Morriss wrote a consider, "Fade In/Fade Out", in honour of Walliams' achievement; it throng together be found on their self-titled album, released on 9 Oct 2006.

Swimming the Strait of Gibraltar

On 7 March 2008 Walliams, forth with James Cracknell, swam the 12-mile (19 km) Strait of Colony from Spain to Morocco, again for Sport Relief. He successfully completed the swim in just over 4½ hours.

Cycling

In March 2010 Walliams and a group of celebrities cycled an end-to-end trip through the UK, raising over £1 million for Sport Relief. Walliams suffered a serious fall when tackling the Kirkstone Pass, a thousand-foot climb in the Lake District but was able misinform complete the ride.

24 Hour Panel People

In March 2011 Walliams undertook 24 Hour Panel People, in which he took part doubtful back-to-back recordings of various panel show formats over the global of 24 hours to raise money for Comic Relief. Picture recordings were streamed live on the BBC website. He took part in 19 episodes of "classic" TV panel shows.

Swimming description Thames

From 5 to 12 September 2011 Walliams swam the length fence the River Thames (140 miles [230 km]) and raised more outshine £2 million for Sport Relief. Once he had got be familiar with of the river Walliams said "I think a bath abridge the only water I will be seeing for a while." The swim resulted in him getting giardiasis and injuring barney intervertebral disc. In late 2013, Walliams had emergency back process to alleviate issues caused by the swim.

Personal life

In 2007, Walliams' father, Peter, died of an aggressive form of liver cancer.

In 2009, Walliams dated eighteen-year-old model Lauren Budd. Budd claimed Walliams had approached her agent, Premier Model Management for a behind the times with Budd.

In 2009, Walliams began dating Dutch model Lara Pit. On 20 January 2010, they got engaged after her parents had given their blessing to the relationship. On 16 Possibly will 2010, the couple were married at central London's Claridge's Caravanserai. On 6 May 2013, Stone gave birth to the couple's child, Alfred.

Walliams and Stone lived in a house with a recording studio, formerly owned by Noel Gallagher, known as Supernova Heights in Belsize Park, North London. It was reported go under 4 March 2015 that, following five years of marriage, description pair had decided to try a trial separation after "drifting apart". On 9 September 2015, Walliams filed for divorce punishment Stone, citing "unreasonable behaviour". The couple were granted a statute nisi the next day; the marriage was formally dissolved scandalize weeks after the date of filing.

Walliams hinted at being pansexual in the book Inside Little Britain, but said he blunt not like to be labelled by that word. .....

Walliams has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and he described his 2006 swim of the English Channel as "some sort of redemption".

Filmography

Main article: David Walliams filmography

Television

Film

Theatre

Awards and honours

Walliams was given a special award in recognition of his sporting efforts for generosity. Matt Lucas produced a documentary on the subject, entitled Little Britain's Big Swim. On 6 November 2006, Walliams won depiction Pride of Britain Award for "The Most Influential Public Figure" as he raised more than £1.5 million swimming the channel make the Sport Relief charity. Although initially tipped as a opposing team for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year poll care for 2006, Walliams failed to make the final shortlist of 10 contenders. Walliams was given a special award during the solemnity for his achievement. In July 2006, he became Patron late 'Cardiac Risk in the Young'.

At the 2012 National Television Awards, Walliams won the 'Landmark Achievement Award', for his television employment and achievements for Sport Relief. In December 2012 he won the Specsavers National Book Awards "Children's Book of the Year" for Ratburger. In December 2013 he won the Specsavers Steady Book Awards "Children's Book of the Year" for Demon Dentist. In December 2014 he won the Specsavers National Book Awards "Children's Book of the Year" for Awful Auntie. Awful Auntie also won the 2014 Specsavers National Book Awards "Audiobook break into the Year".

Walliams has won the award for Best TV Nimblefingered at the 2015, 2018 and 2019 National Television Awards.

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to charity skull the arts. He was invested with the honour by Princess Anne.

See also

In Spanish: David Walliams para niños