Ricky Gervais - Movie and Film Biography, Credits and Filmography

Aliases

Ricky Dene Gervais

Genres

Comedy

Active

1980s - 2000s (music)
2001 - Present (film)

Born

June 25, 1961 in Reading, Berkshire, England

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Born in Reading, England, Ricky Gervais worked in the music industry as a radio DJ, band manager, and music supervisor before getting into comedy. As a writer, he provided scripts for the U.K. television series Bruiser and The Sketch Show. As an actor, he was seen quite a bit on The 11 O'Clock Show and provided the voice of the Penguin in the animated show Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe. In 2000, he had his own show called Meet Ricky Gervais. On the big screen, Gervais appeared as the bouncer in the U.K. comedy Dog Eat Dog. He's most known, however, as the writer/director/star of the hit BBC comedy series The Office. He plays David Brent, regional manager of the Wernham Hogg paper company in the London industrial suburb of Slough. A brilliant observation of the contemporary workplace, the show has won a variety of awards over in Britain. Gervais received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2003. Projects for 2004 include voice work on the animated film Valiant and producing an Americanized version of The Office with director Greg Daniels. He created and starred in Extras, another bitingly funny TV series, this one about a struggling actor. In 2008 he had a leading role for the first time in an American film, the supernatural comedy Ghost Town. The next year he wrote, directed, and starred in the acerbic comedy The Invention of Lying. He earned a ton of buzz in 2010 for his prickly hosting of the Golden Globes, a job he would repeat the next two years as well. In 2011 he debuted a new show he created with actor Warwick Davis, Life's Too Short.

Title	Year	User Rating
Wind in the Willows Actor	2013	NOT YET RELEASED
Life's Too Short [TV Series] Actor, Show Creator	2011
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World Voice	2011
The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards Participant	2011
Cemetery Junction Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter	2010
Louie: Season 01 Actor	2010
Ricky Gervais: Live IV - Science Performance	2010
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Actor	2009
SpongeBob SquarePants: Truth or Square Voice	2009
The Invention of Lying Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter	2009
Ghost Town Actor	2008
Ricky Gervais: Out of England Executive Producer, Performance, Screenwriter	2008
Concert for Diana Performance	2007
Extras: Season 02 Actor	2007
Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale Actor, Director, Screenwriter	2007
Stardust Actor	2007
For Your Consideration Actor	2006
Night at the Museum Actor	2006
The Office: The Convict Screenwriter	2006
Extras [TV Series] Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter, Show Creator	2005
Extras: Ben Stiller Director, Screenwriter	2005
Extras: Kate Winslet Director, Screenwriter	2005
Extras: Les Dennis Director, Screenwriter	2005
Extras: Patrick Stewart Director, Screenwriter	2005
Extras: Ross Kemp Director, Screenwriter	2005
Extras: Samuel L. Jackson Director, Screenwriter	2005
Extras: Season 01 Actor	2005
The Office [TV Series] Executive Producer, Screenwriter	2005
The Office: Season 01 Executive Producer, Show Creator	2005
Valiant Voice	2005
Alias: Facade Actor	2004
The Office Special Actor	2003
The Office: Series 02 Actor	2003
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe Voice	2002
The Office [TV Series] Actor, Director, Screenwriter	2001
The Office: Downsize Director, Screenwriter	2001
The Office: Judgement Director, Screenwriter	2001
The Office: New Girl Director, Screenwriter	2001
The Office: Series 01 Actor	2001
The Office: The Quiz Director, Screenwriter	2001
The Office: Training Director, Screenwriter	2001
The Office: Work Experience Director, Screenwriter	2001

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