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Robert Webb
Actor, Writer, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn September 29, 1972 (52 years)
Robert Patrick Webb is an English comedian, actor and writer. He rose to prominence alongside David Mitchell as the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb. Mitchell and Webb starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, in which Webb plays Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne. The two also starred in the sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look, for which they then performed a stage adaptation, The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb. The duo starred in the 2007 film Magicians, and in the short-lived series Ambassadors in 2013. Webb headed the critically acclaimed sitcom The Smoking Room and was a performer in the sketch show Bruiser. From 2017 to 2021, he starred alongside Mitchell in the Channel 4 comedy-drama Back. Webb is also a regular comedy panellist, appearing on shows such as The Bubble, Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, Mastermind, Argumental, and Was It Something I Said? He has also hosted and narrated several programmes. His other sitcom appearances include Blessed, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, and Fresh Meat.
Robert Patrick Webb was born on 29 September 1972 in Boston, Lincolnshire, and grew up in Woodhall Spa. His parents divorced when he was five years old, with his mother remarrying a year or so later. He has two older brothers and a younger half-sister. He grew up on a council estate, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Horncastle. Having grown up watching the sitcoms The Young Ones, Blackadder, and Only Fools and Horses, he became interested in drama and poetry while in school, and began writing parodies. At the age of 13, partly because of resentment towards his father, he made a conscious effort to lose his native Lincolnshire accent and now speaks with a more neutral English accent. When he was 17 and in the lower sixth form preparing for his A-levels, his mother died of breast cancer, and he moved in with his father and re-sat his A-levels. In 1992, Webb attended Robinson College, Cambridge, where he studied English and became vice-president of the Footlights, where he met David Mitchell. The two met at an audition for a Footlights production of Cinderella in 1993.
Robert Patrick Webb was born on 29 September 1972 in Boston, Lincolnshire, and grew up in Woodhall Spa. His parents divorced when he was five years old, with his mother remarrying a year or so later. He has two older brothers and a younger half-sister. He grew up on a council estate, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Horncastle. Having grown up watching the sitcoms The Young Ones, Blackadder, and Only Fools and Horses, he became interested in drama and poetry while in school, and began writing parodies. At the age of 13, partly because of resentment towards his father, he made a conscious effort to lose his native Lincolnshire accent and now speaks with a more neutral English accent. When he was 17 and in the lower sixth form preparing for his A-levels, his mother died of breast cancer, and he moved in with his father and re-sat his A-levels. In 1992, Webb attended Robinson College, Cambridge, where he studied English and became vice-president of the Footlights, where he met David Mitchell. The two met at an audition for a Footlights production of Cinderella in 1993.
Filmography
| 2024 | Screening Saves Lives · as Narrator |
| 2023 | Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery · as Martin |
| 2023 | A Rare Find · as Narrator |
| 2021 | Whitstable Pearl (TV Series) · as Tom Grant |
| 2021 | Murder, They Hope (TV Series) · as Martin |
| 2021 | Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains (TV Series) · as Guest |
| 2019 | Frayed (TV Series) · as Rufus |
| 2017 | Back (TV Series) · as Andrew |
| 2016 | Dara Ó Briain's Go 8 Bit (TV Series) |
| 2016 | Our Ex-Wife · as Jack |
| 2016 | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie · as Nick |
| 2014 | Duck Quacks Don't Echo (UK) (TV Series) |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty (TV Series) · as Knight Of The Sun (voice) |
| 2013 | Ambassadors (TV Series) · as Neil Tilly |
| 2012 | Gadget Man (TV Series) |
| 2012 | The Big Fat Quiz of the 00s · as Jeremy Usborne |
| 2012 | The Wedding Video · as Tim |
| 2011 | The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (TV Series) · as Jedrington Secret-Past |
| 2011 | Death in Paradise (TV Series) · as Justin West |
| 2011 | Threesome (TV Series) · as Colin |
| 2011 | Fresh Meat (TV Series) · as Dan |
| 2010 | Channel 4's Comedy Gala (TV Series) |
| 2008 | Argumental (TV Series) |
| 2008 | All Star Mr & Mrs (TV Series) |
| 2007 | Magicians · as Karl Allen |
| 2007 | Comic Relief 2007: The Big One · as Various Characters |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | That Mitchell and Webb Look (TV Series) · as Various Characters |
| 2006 | Annually Retentive (TV Series) |
| 2006 | Confetti · as Michael |
| 2005 | Blessed (TV Series) |
| 2005 | Doctor Who (2005) (TV Series) · as Robot 2 (voice) |
| 2005 | Twisted Tales (UK) (TV Series) |
| 2004 | The Comic Side of 7 Days (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple (TV Series) · as Tim Kendall |
| 2004 | 55 Degrees North (TV Series) · as K-9 Officer |
| 2004 | The Smoking Room (TV Series) · as Robin |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 | Spine Chillers (TV Series) |
| 2002 | Celebrity Mastermind (TV Series) |
| 2001 | The Mitchell and Webb Situation (TV Series) |
| 2001 | Fun at the Funeral Parlour (TV Series) |
| 2000 | Aqua Teen Hunger Force (TV Series) · as Glorfinoid (voice) |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | Urban Gothic (TV Series) · as Bentley Kaye |
| 2000 | Bruiser (TV Series) |
| 1999 | People Like Us (TV Series) · as Tom Wolfson |
| 1998 | Comedy Lab (TV Series) · as Colin |
| 1998 | Comic Act · as Mario |
| 1998 | Comedy Nation (TV Series) · as Various |
| 1997 | Cold Feet (TV Series) · as Grant Hodges |
| 1990 | Cutting Edge (TV Series) · as Narrator |