Daniel Rigby
{{Short description|English actor and comedian (born 1982)}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Daniel Rigby
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|12|6|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Stockport, Greater Manchester, England{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
| education = Cheadle Hulme School
| occupation = Actor, comedian
| years_active = 2004–present
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Daniel Rigby (born 6 December 1982){{cite news|last=Monahan|first=Mark|title=Daniel Rigby: The Mothwokfantastic at the Pleasance Cellar|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/edinburgh-festival/6030286/Daniel-Rigby-The-Mothwokfantastic-at-the-Pleasance-Cellar-review.html|access-date=28 May 2011|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=14 August 2009}} is an English actor and comedian. He received a BAFTA TV Award for his leading role as Eric Morecambe in the 2011 BBC television film Eric and Ernie.
Early life
Rigby was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} He attended Cheadle Hulme School{{Cite news|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/eric-morecambe-role-brings-bafta-861475|title=Eric Morecambe role brings BAFTA sunshine for actor Daniel Rigby|work=Manchester Evening News|author=Devine, Peter|date=23 January 2013|access-date=10 April 2023}} and, after studying performing arts at Stockport College, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.{{cite web |title=Former Performing Arts Student Wins Leading Actor BAFTA |url=http://www.stockport.ac.uk/content/former-performing-arts-student-wins-leading-actor-bafta |publisher=Stockport College |access-date=28 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110530002909/http://www.stockport.ac.uk/content/former-performing-arts-student-wins-leading-actor-bafta |archive-date=30 May 2011 |df=dmy}} He is the cousin of Blossoms frontman Tom Ogden. {{cite web | title=Five Minutes With... Blossoms' Tom Ogden |date =19 January 2017|url =https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/5-minutes-with-blossoms-frontman-tom-ogden|publisher=British Vogue |access-date = 19 September 2024| df=dmy}}
Career
Rigby has worked as a stand-up comedian, having appeared at the Latitude Festival, won the 2007 Laughing Horse New Act of the Year, and been a nominee for winner of the 2007 So You Think You're Funny competition. In 2007, he moved to television roles with the BBC period drama Lilies.{{cite news|last=Hoggart|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Hoggart|title=Lilies of the 'Pool|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article1288685.ece|access-date=28 May 2011|newspaper=The Times|date=6 January 2007}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} In 2011, Rigby won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance as the late comedian Eric Morecambe in Eric and Ernie, beating both Matt Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch for their roles as the Doctor and Sherlock Holmes, respectively.{{cite news|last=Masters|first=Tim|title=Bafta TV awards: New faces topple star names|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13476089|access-date=28 May 2011|work=BBC News|date=22 May 2011}} From 2011 until 2014, Rigby voiced{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p6dcx|title=Warhorses of Letters – BBC Radio 4|website=BBC|access-date=9 October 2017}} Copenhagen in three series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy Warhorses of Letters alongside Stephen Fry. He performed in Tom Basden's Holes at the Arcola Theatre in London from July to August 2014 alongside Mathew Baynton.
In 2015, he narrated the reboot of the BBC children's television series Teletubbies.{{cite web|work=Digital Spy|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a640138/fearne-cotton-jim-broadbent-and-jane-horrocks-to-voice-teletubbies-reboot/|author= Eames, Tom|title=Fearne Cotton for Teletubbies reboot|date=7 April 2015|access-date=10 April 2023}} In March 2017, he won the best actor award at the 2016 Manchester Theatre Awards for his performance as Alan Turing in Breaking the Code at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theskinny.co.uk/theatre/shows/manchester-theatre-awards-2017-the-winners|title=Wish List wins big at Manchester Theatre Awards 2017|magazine=The Skinny|date=17 March 2017|access-date=10 April 2023}}
In 2019, he voiced the title role in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom ReincarNathan, alongside Diane Morgan and Josh Widdicombe.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002822|work=BBC Radio 4|title=ReincarNathan|date=6 November 2021|access-date=10 April 2023}}
In 2021, Rigby wrote and performed the highly rated audiobook novel Isaac Steele and the Forever Man.{{cite web|last=Hawkins|first=Si|title=Daniel Rigby's Novel Approach to Sci-Fi|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/daniel-rigby-isaac-steele-interview/|access-date=10 April 2023|work=British Comedy Guide|date=28 October 2021}}
In 2022 and 2023, Rigby starred as The Maniac in Tom Basden's adaptation of Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist with runs in Sheffield and London.
In 2024, he appeared as Jack Trotter in the Disney+ show Renegade Nell.{{cn|date=September 2024}}
Filmography
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=Film=
| class="wikitable"
|+ ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |
| 2006
| Flyboys | Ives | |
| 2021
| The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Bendigo | |
| rowspan="2" | 2025
| Maple | |
| {{Pending film|Cold Storage}}
| Anthony | Post-production |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"|Notes |
| 2007
| Lilies | Billy Moss | 7 episodes |
| 2008
| David | Episode: "Hackers" |
| 2009
| James | Episode: "Past Life" |
| rowspan="2"|2011
| Ideal | Hugh | Episode: "The Love" |
| Eric and Ernie |
| rowspan="2"|2012
| Various | Episode #1.6 |
| Comedy Showcase
| Yannick Montagu | Episode: "The Function Room" |
| rowspan="2"|2013
| Canon Prescott | Episode: "A Caribbean Mystery" |
| Black Mirror
| Jamie Salter / Waldo | Episode: "The Waldo Moment" |
| 2013–2014
| Mr. Luke Martin | 9 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|2014
| Charlie | 3 episodes |
| That Day We Sang
| Mr. Kirkby | Television film |
| 2015
| Chris | 6 episodes |
| 2015–2018
| Narrator |
| 2016
| Jericho | Charles Blackwood | 8 episodes |
| 2016–2018
| Flowers | Donald | 12 episodes |
| 2017
| Gap Year | Jotty | Episode: "Kuala Lumpur: The Expats" |
| 2017–2018
| Officer Hayward | 10 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|2018
| 4 episodes |
| Plebs
| Nero | Episode: "The Bathhouse" |
| rowspan="3"|2019
| Martin | Episode: "19:58" |
| GameFace
| David Chaplin | Episode: "Gritty" |
| Defending the Guilty
| Phillip | Episode #1.5 |
| 2020
| Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After | Baker | Television film |
| rowspan="2"|2021
| Tony Collier | 4 episodes |
| Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After
| Jester | Television film |
| 2022
| Hebble | 6 episodes |
| 2023
| Partridge | 3 episodes |
| 2024
| Jack Trotter | 2 episodes |
| 2025
| John Wright{{cite web |title=Further cast confirmed in Chris Lang drama I, Jack Wright for Alibi |url=https://corporate.uktv.co.uk/newsroom/further-cast-confirmed-in-chris-lang-drama-i-jack-wright-for-alibi |website=UKTV |access-date=14 October 2024}} | 6 episodes |
| {{TableTBA}}
| {{Pending series|Blade Runner 2099}} | {{TableTBA}} | In production |
=Stage=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"|Notes |
|---|
| 2004
| Hamlet | King |
| rowspan="2"|2005
| Demetrius/Moonshine |
| The Burial at Thebes
| Haemon | rowspan="2" | Nottingham Playhouse |
| 2006
| The White Album | Miles |
| rowspan="3"|2009
| The Mothwokfantastic | Himself | Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival |
| Beyond The Front Line
| Welsh soldier (Private Vespa) | The Lowry, Salford |
| The Music Show
| | Performed at Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| rowspan="2"|2010
| Afterbirth | Himself | Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival |
| The Count of Monte Cristo
| West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds |
| 2011
| Alan Dangle | Royal National Theatre (Lyttelton Theatre); UK tour; Adelphi Theatre; Music Box Theatre, Broadway |
| 2013
| Daniel Rigby: Berk in Progress | Himself | Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival |
| 2014
| Holes | Ian | Arcola Theatre, Dalston, London |
| 2016
| Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester |
| 2017
| Royal National Theatre (Olivier Theatre} |
| rowspan="2"|2018
| rowspan="2" | Crucible Theatre, Sheffield |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream
| Bottom |
| 2022–2023
| Accidental Death of an Anarchist | The Maniac | Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, transferred to Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith and subsequently to Theatre Royal, Haymarket |
| 2023–2024
| Mr Stringer | Royal National Theatre (Olivier Theatre} |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2288047}}
- {{British Comedy Guide|people|daniel_rigby}}
- [https://www.pbjmanagement.co.uk/artists/daniel-rigby/credits Daniel Rigby] - full credits at pbjmanagement
- {{youTube|ac0uB74yINA|60 Seconds With...Daniel Rigby}}, from BAFTAguru
{{British Academy Television Award for Best Actor 2000–2019}}
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Category:21st-century English male actors
Category:Male actors from Stockport
Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Category:Best Actor BAFTA Award (television) winners
Category:English male film actors
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Category:English male television actors
Category:English male voice actors
Category:English stand-up comedians
Category:People educated at Cheadle Hulme School
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