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Lenny Henry

Lenny Henry

  • 66 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer and stand-up comedian

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Lenny Henry to host Red Nose Day for final time on Friday 15th March

Rosie Jones, Dame Joan Collins and Simon Cowell are amongst the celebrities who appear in a video sketch to announce Red Nose Day 2024 will take place on Friday 15th March. Sir Lenny Henry has announced that this will be his final time hosting the fundraising show.

British Comedy Guide, 31st January 2024

Can Comic Relief survive without Lenny Henry?

Comedy's most famous red nose is about to fade to grey.

Ed Power, i Newspaper, 31st January 2024

Lenny Henry: One Of A Kind, review

Stars line up to gush over hard-working hero.

Carol Midgley, The Times, 27th October 2023

Lenny Henry: One Of A Kind, review

His achievements deserve more than a hagiography.

Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 26th October 2023

Lenny Henry set to film his acclaimed play August In England

Lenny Henry is turning his acclaimed one-man play August In England into a film. The comedian's playwriting debut received rapturous reviews and he is now seeking to screen a performance in cinemas or adapt the production into a feature film.

British Comedy Guide, 7th October 2023

Lenny Henry on his poignant, hilarious ode to Windrush

Russell T Davies helped Henry turn his family's tales of leaving the Caribbean for 50s Dudley into a moving period drama. He talks sexism, racism and wishing he was more like Scorsese.

Leila Latif, The Guardian, 6th October 2023

Lenny Henry to look back on entertainment career in ITV special

Lenny Henry: One Of A Kind, coming to ITV1 this autumn, will see the comedian looking back on his time in the entertainment spotlight.

British Comedy Guide, 11th August 2023

Lenny Henry lands two Channel 4 shows

Lenny Henry is making two new television shows for Channel 4. In Legends Of Comedy, he interviews Paul Whitehouse, Alexei Sayle, Sally Phillips and Romesh Ranganathan. He is also writing a dark comedy drama pilot for the channel called Kriss Kross.

British Comedy Guide, 16th May 2023

Birmingham billboard celebrates city's comedy legends

Joe Lycett, Meera Syal, Lenny Henry, Frank Skinner and Julie Walters are depicted in a digital mural in Birmingham to promote Sky's Comedy Rep festival.

British Comedy Guide, 15th May 2023

Sir Lenny Henry stars in his own one-man play about the injustices of the Windrush Scandal

The one-man show, which opens on Friday at London's Bush Theatre - is about how people who'd come from the Commonwealth and lived here for decades were denied legal rights, detained and deported from 2018 under the government's hostile environment policies on illegal immigration.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4, 3rd May 2023

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