Rob Brydon Movies and Career Information

Rob Brydon (born Robert Brydon Jones; 3 May 1965, in Swansea, Wales) is a BAFTA nominated Welsh actor, comedian, radio presenter, singer and impressionist most famous for his role as Uncle Bryn from the comedy drama Gavin and Stacey, as well as the host of panel quiz shows Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive and Would I Lie To You? and playing Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and its spin-off The Keith Barret Show. Brydon has worked with a number of comedians and actors, notably Steve Coogan and Julia Davis. In 2003, he was listed by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. His mother, Joy (nee Brydon), was a school teacher, and his father, Howard, was a car dealer. Brydon grew up in Baglan, in Port Talbot, Wales and was educated at the private St. John's School in Porthcawl and Dumbarton House School in Swansea until the age of 14, then at Porthcawl Comprehensive School, where he became a member of the school's youth theatre group. Whilst at Dumbarton, he once stole fellow pupil Catherine Zeta-Jones' dinner money. He attended the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, but left to join Radio Wales at the age of 20 without graduating from