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Rowan Atkinson Biography (Age, Height, weight, Girlfriend & More)

Rowan Atkinson is a British actor who is our favourite Mr.Bean who had made all of us fall into laughter. He has also co-written and acted in Not the Nine O’Clock News in the year 1979 and it was a huge success and was a great competitor to many best-selling books at the period.

It also didn’t stop with that but has won an International Emmy and also the British Academy Award for Best Light Entertainment Programme of 1980. Rowan has won the British Academy Award and not just that but also was named as BBC Personality of the Year for the same work, Not the Nine O’Clock News in 1979.

Personal Details

Full Name
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson

Nick Name
Mr. Bean, Rowan Atkinson

Date of Birth
January 6, 1955

Age
68 Years as of January 2023

Birth Place
Consett, County Durham, England, United Kingdom

Residence
United Kingdom

Ethnicity
White

Religion
Atheist

Zodiac Sign
Capricorn

Nationality
British

Occupations
Actor, Comedian and Writer

School

• Durham Choristers School
• St. Bees School

College/University

• Newcastle University
• Queen’s College, Oxford

Education Qualification
Master Degree in Electrical Engineering

Net Worth
$160 Million USD as of 2023

Marital Status
Divorced

Debut

• TV: Canned Laughter (1979)
• Film: Never Say Never Again (1983)

Physical Appearance

Eye Color
Hazel

Hair Color
Dark Brown

Chest
39 inches

Waist
34 inches

Biceps
 14 inches

Height
5’11” Ft

Weight
80 kg

Personal Life (Family, Friends, Boyfriends, Children)

Father
Eric Atkinson

Mother
Ella May

Sibling
Rupert Atkinson, Rodney Atkinson and Paul Atkinson (brothers)

Girlfriend/ Wife
Sunetra Sastry [marriage 1990- divorced 2015]

Partner
Louise Ford (2014-Present)

Children

• Benjamin Atkinson (son)
• Lily Sastry and Isla Atkinson (daughters)

Early life, Family and Relationship

Rowan Atkinson was born in  Consett, County Durham, England on the 6th of January 1955. He was the fourth and the youngest of his siblings and his father was a farmer and also a company director and they were married in the year 1945. Of his siblings, Paul was dead as an infant and Rodney became a Eurosceptic economist who narrowly lost the UK Independence Party leadership election in the year 2000.

He was brought as an Anglican and he got his schooling at Durham Choristers School which is a preparatory school and later he got into St. Bees School. Rowan and Rodney both got into a school in Consett where they went to Durham Choristers along with Tony Blair who was to be the future prime minister.

He also received top grades in science in A levels. He got his spot at Newcastle University getting a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and he continued for the Master degree in Electrical Engineering at the Queen’s College, Oxford.

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Success and career

Rowan has also starred in a few series of shows with comedy genre for BBC Radio 3 in the year 1979 which was named The Atkinson People. It was considered as a series of interviews with fictional great men which was also played by Rowan Atkinson himself and it was produced by Griff Rhys Jones.

Later he was into acting and his success in the Not the Nine O’Clock News took him to the lead role of Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder. The first series The Black Adder in the year 1983 was meant to be in the mediaeval age and Rowan also co-wrote it with the company of Richard Curtis and Ben Elton. He later had many parts one of which is Mr. Bean making him never gone.

Rowan Atkinson Biography (Age, Height, weight, Girlfriend & More)