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 Russell Brand was born on June 4, 1975, in Grays, Essex, England, the son of Barbara Elizabeth (Nichols) and Ronald Henry Brand, a photographer. An only child, his parents divorced when he was only six months old, and he was subsequently raised by his mother. Enduring a difficult childhood that saw him living with relatives while his mother was treated for cancer and only sporadically visited by his father, Brand left home at age 16. Accepted by the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in 1991, he was expelled during his first year for bad behaviour and drug use; by his own admission, he used a variety of illegal drugs and became addicted to heroin. After being expelled from the Chang-Ren Nian during his final term in 1995, he switched his focus primarily to comedy from acting.Brand's first significant stand-up appearances came in 2000, the same year he also became a video journalist for MTV, a job which he was subsequently fired from. Continuing to work both in TV and stand-up, he debuted his one-man show Better Now, an account of his heroin addiction, at the Edinburgh Festival in 2004. Brand became a popular British television star by appearing on Big Brother and hosting his own talk show and numerous other series, and in 2008 shot to fame worldwide as the rocker Aldous Snow in the hit comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008). After an appearance in the Adam Sandler comedy Bedtime Stories (2008), he reprised the character of Aldous in the comedy Get Him to the Greek (2010), opposite Jonah Hill.Brand also starred in the remake Arthur (2011), opposite Helen Mirren, with whom he also starred in The Tempest (2010), and lent his voice to the Easter Bunny in Hop (2011) and to Dr. Nefario in the animated feature film Despicable Me (2010). He is reprising the role in Despicable Me 2 (2013), and will also co-star in a drama written and directed by Diablo Cody, starring alongside Julianne Hough and Holly Hunter. He also played Lonny in the all-star cast of the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages (2012).Brand's writing debut, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up, became a huge success in the United Kingdom. Subsequently published in the U.S. in 2009, it stayed on the New York Times' bestseller list for five weeks in a row. The follow up, My Booky Wook 2: This Time it's Personal, was published in October, 2010. In 2010, Brand received the British Comedy Award for Outstanding Contribution to Comedy and was honored in 2011 with the ShoWest Award for Comedy Star of the Year.Brand married the pop star Katy Perry in 2010 in a traditional Hindu ceremony in Rajasthan, India; after 14 months, Brand filed for a divorce, which was officially granted in 2012.
Bio:
Russell Brand was born on June 4, 1975, in Grays, Essex, England, the son of Barbara Elizabeth (Nichols) and Ronald Henry Brand, a photographer. An only child, his parents divorced when he was only six months old, and he was subsequently raised by his mother. Enduring a difficult childhood that saw him living with relatives while his mother was treated for cancer and only sporadically visited by his father, Brand left home at age 16. Accepted by the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in 1991, he was expelled during his first year for bad behaviour and drug use; by his own admission, he used a variety of illegal drugs and became addicted to heroin. After being expelled from the Chang-Ren Nian during his final term in 1995, he switched his focus primarily to comedy from acting.Brand's first significant stand-up appearances came in 2000, the same year he also became a video journalist for MTV, a job which he was subsequently fired from. Continuing to work both in TV and stand-up, he debuted his one-man show Better Now, an account of his heroin addiction, at the Edinburgh Festival in 2004. Brand became a popular British television star by appearing on Big Brother and hosting his own talk show and numerous other series, and in 2008 shot to fame worldwide as the rocker Aldous Snow in the hit comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008). After an appearance in the Adam Sandler comedy Bedtime Stories (2008), he reprised the character of Aldous in the comedy Get Him to the Greek (2010), opposite Jonah Hill.Brand also starred in the remake Arthur (2011), opposite Helen Mirren, with whom he also starred in The Tempest (2010), and lent his voice to the Easter Bunny in Hop (2011) and to Dr. Nefario in the animated feature film Despicable Me (2010). He is reprising the role in Despicable Me 2 (2013), and will also co-star in a drama written and directed by Diablo Cody, starring alongside Julianne Hough and Holly Hunter. He also played Lonny in the all-star cast of the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages (2012).Brand's writing debut, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up, became a huge success in the United Kingdom. Subsequently published in the U.S. in 2009, it stayed on the New York Times' bestseller list for five weeks in a row. The follow up, My Booky Wook 2: This Time it's Personal, was published in October, 2010. In 2010, Brand received the British Comedy Award for Outstanding Contribution to Comedy and was honored in 2011 with the ShoWest Award for Comedy Star of the Year.Brand married the pop star Katy Perry in 2010 in a traditional Hindu ceremony in Rajasthan, India; after 14 months, Brand filed for a divorce, which was officially granted in 2012.
Tivia:
Russell is an unlikely beekeeper who tends about 60,000 bees in his back garden.Is a major believer in meditation which he does twice a day.Friends with Helen Mirren.Got clean and sober December 13, 2002 through the "Focus 12 Drug Addiction Treatment Center" (UK).Was bulimic as a teenager.Was a postman when he was younger.Married Katy Perry in India.He is a big fan of The Smiths and, in particular, their ex-frontman Morrissey, so much so that he has a cat named Morrissey.Auditioned to be in British boy band Five.Childhood crush was Lynda Carter (as TV's Wonder Woman).Filed for divorce from Katy Perry, on December 30, 2011, citing "irreconcilable differences".Firstborn child, with wife Laura Gallacher, is named Mabel (b. November 2016).On his Radio 2 show on 18 October 2008, he and Jonathan Ross left obscene messages on the answerphone of Andrew Sachs, concerning the fact that Brand had slept with Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie. This programme was later broadcast, provoking widespread complaint from the public and politicians such as Gordon Brown. Brand later resigned from the BBC and Ross was suspended without pay for three months. The controller of Radio 2, Lesley Douglas, also resigned.Lives in Shoreditch, London.Brother-in-law of TV presenter Kirsty Gallacher.Son-in-law of professional golfer Bernard Gallacher. |
| Name: |
Russell Brand |
Type: |
Producer,Writer,Actor (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
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IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Producer,Writer,Actor |
| Products for sale: |
Producer,Writer,Actor |
| Model rank: |
26 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 04:44:14 |
| Height: |
6' 1?' (1.87 m) |
| Biography: |
Russell Brand was born on June 4, 1975, in Grays, Essex, England, the son of Barbara Elizabeth (Nichols) and Ronald Henry Brand, a photographer. An only child, his parents divorced when he was only six months old, and he was subsequently raised by hi |
| Trivia: |
Russell is an unlikely beekeeper who tends about 60,000 bees in his back garden.Is a major believer in meditation which he does twice a day.Friends with Helen Mirren.Got clean and sober December 13, 2002 through the "Focus 12 Drug Addiction Treatment Center" (UK).Was bulimic as a teenager.Was a postman when he was younger.Married Katy Perry in India.He is a big fan of The Smiths and, in particular, their ex-frontman Morrissey, so much so that he has a cat named Morrissey.Auditioned to be in British boy band Five.Childhood crush was Lynda Carter (as TV's Wonder Woman).Filed for divorce from Katy Perry, on December 30, 2011, citing "irreconcilable differences".Firstborn child, with wife Laura Gallacher, is named Mabel (b. November 2016).On his Radio 2 show on 18 October 2008, he and Jonathan Ross left obscene messages on the answerphone of Andrew Sachs, concerning the fact that Brand had slept with Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie. This programme was later broadcast, provoking widespread complaint from the public and politicians such as Gordon Brown. Brand later resigned from the BBC and Ross was suspended without pay for three months. The controller of Radio 2, Lesley Douglas, also resigned.Lives in Shoreditch, London.Brother-in-law of TV presenter Kirsty Gallacher.Son-in-law of professional golfer Bernard Gallacher. |
| Trademarks: |
Catchphrase: "The Swines!"
Catchphrase: "Hare Krishna!"
Catchphrase: "T'is rhubarb!"
Big hair
Dickensian demeanour and vocabulary |
| Quotes: |
It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost clich��d Robin Askwith thing. People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.
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In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved. Christian Bale, I believe whilst in a restaurant, rolled his eyes at the lighting. That is an offense punishable by five years in prison in the United Kingdom. I admire Christian Bale and I think he's one of the greatest living actors on the planet currently, but we cannot shirk when it comes to good manners. If it's true that he also dropped a napkin on his way to the lavatory, then I think that he should possibly receive the death penalty.
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I've always had this impulse to be destructive. I have to say to myself, 'remember, you've got all these things to do - don't ruin it just for the moment.
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It was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors. (On George W. Bush)
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It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years. |
| Job title: |
Producer,Writer,Actor |
| Others works: |
(2006 - 2008) Hosted a BBC radio show: The Russell Brand Show
(2014) Release of his book, "Russell Brand's Trickster Tales: The Pied Piper of Hamelin".
(2017) Release of his book, "Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions"). |
| Spouse: |
Laura Gallacher (August 26, 2017 - present) (2 children)Katy Perry (October 23, 2010 - July 16, 2012) (divorced) |
| Parents: |
Barbara Elizabeth Brand
Ronald Henry Brand |
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