Nick Frost

Nick Frost: I want to do a wrestling movie

Nick Frost is planning to star in his own wrestling movie.

Nick Frost to star in Doctor Who Christmas special

Nick Frost will guest star in the Doctor Who Christmas special.

Pegg & Frost to reprise Shaun of the Dead characters

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are to reprise their Shaun of the Dead characters for a Phineas and Ferb special.

Paul: more or less as audience-friendly as it comes

This Simon Pegg and Nick Frost film without Edgar Wright may lack the ornate brilliance of The World's End director, but at least it's got real heart.

Nick Frost to star in black Hollywood comedy Look Away

Nick Frost, Hope Davis and Adelaide Clemens have been set to star in the black comedy Look Away, in which Clemens will play a young woman suffering from so-called "selective blindness" that leaves her unable to see her own mother (Davis). In search of a cure, she sees a therapist (Frost).

Nick Frost's bespectacled antihero Mr Sloane is comfortable as a 50s throwback, but just when it's beginning to look like he'll never embrace the swinging 60s, Robin charms him out of his shell. A flashback to his birthday where Janet (Olivia Colman) presents him with tickets for a cruise makes it easy to lose sympathy with him. But then Robin, with her flicky eyeliner and San Francisco free spirit, forces him to go to a club and even dance. He's quite the natural once he gets going, in a "nervous crab" sort of way.

Radio Times review

Watching this comedy is like being trapped in a Woody Allen fantasy: it's hard to believe a beautiful, young, free-spirited American would ever be interested in a portly, persnickety Englishman who is loath to leave Watford. If you can swallow that, it's a class act (the 60s set is worthy of a costume drama).

In this episode, our hapless hero has his first taste of marijuana shortly before a deliciously disastrous job interview. OK, so it's not the most original of scenes but Nick Frost is even funnier playing a pothead.

Robert B Weide: How Mr Sloane was created

On July 18, 2010, I was driving on a Los Angeles freeway to visit my mother, and out of the corner of my eye, to my right, I caught a glimpse of a man in a car who reminded me a bit of British actor Nick Frost.

A lot can happen to Jeremy Sloane (Nick Frost) in a half-hour episode. One minute he's covered in Reggie's vomit after an impromptu stag and the next he's bumping into Robin, the American object of his affections. With a new teaching job and a theatre date, things are looking up, but there's still plenty of opportunity for bungling. Bodily functions put a spanner in the works and Mr Sloane really comes alive when Frost fights a "floater" in a cringe-inducing toilet scene. No wonder there's guffawing around the pub table afterwards.

Radio Times review

This comedy from one of the chaps behind Curb Your Enthusiasm revels in its late 60s setting: there's the imperious telephone operator, the glum son in the corner of the pub waiting for his dad to finish up, the blithe drink-driving. There's also an icky dollop of toilet humour in its most literal sense and, inevitably, a sprinkling semantic confusion because Mr Sloane has fallen for a comely American who says "faucet" instead of tap.

In other words it's not the sharpest of scripts but that hardly matters when you have Nick Frost as your lead, doing what he does best: earnest awkwardness. He's a joy to watch.