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













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