Sir Tony Robinson is an English actor, comedian, amateur historian, TV presenter, author and political activist. He is known for playing "Baldrick" in the BBC television series Blackadder and for hosting Channel 4 programmes such as Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History.(Wikipedia)
He has one son and one daughter.
Lives just outside of Bristol, England and supports Bristol City Football Club.
Allergic to red wine, cats and feathers.
Has written 17 childrens books, most recently one on Kings and Queens.
Has appeared on the British political debate programme, "Question Time" , as a member of the Labour party.
His favorite songs are "I Can Help" by Billy Swan, "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis, "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol, "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera, "Unfinished Sympathy" by Massive Attack, "Tangled Up In Blue" by Bob Dylan, "Shoulda Woulda Coulda" by Beverley Knight, "This Womans Work" by Maxwell, "Hes So Fine" by The Chiffons and "Falling Slowly" by The Frames..
Along with Rowan Atkinson and Tim McInnerny , he is one of only three actors to appear in all four "Blackadder" series: "The Black Adder" , "Black-Adder II" , "Black Adder the Third" and "Blackadder Goes Forth" .
Narrates Terry Pratchetts Discworld and non discworld audio books.
He is an active member of Oxfam and Comic Relief.
In 2000, he was awarded an honorary Masters of Arts degree from Bristol University for his services to theatre and archaeology.
Was a member of the Labour Party National Executive Committee and Labour Party Joint Policy Committee, 2000-2004.
He was consultant on childrens programming for the London Symphony Orchestra from 1998 to 2000.
He was Vice President of Equity, the British Actors Union, from 1996 to 2000.
He was created a Knight Bachelor in the 2013 Queens Birthday Honours List for public and political service.
(June 2013) London, England: Activist
There is a century of socialism to be won. It will only happen if we,make it happen.
At first I wanted to be an MP but now I think it would be crap.
It was around about the repeat of the second series that I began to get,an inkling of quite how popular ["The Black Adder" (1982) ] was.
There was never any bad feeling between Rowan Atkinson and I. There was,bad feeling between the writers and the performers - the writers felt,we were unilaterally altering the script and altering it for the worse.
At end of the first day of rehearsals the writers would go away and by,the time they came back we would have changed an awful lot of it. By,the end, they felt we had run away with it. There were quite a lot of,emotions flashing around about that.
