Peter Serafinowicz
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Peter Serafinowicz (born July 10 1972, Liverpool) is an English comedy actor and voice artist.
He made his broadcasting debut in 1993 on Radio 1 show The Knowledge, a spoof documentary about the music industry. From there he went on to perform in Radio 4 shows Weekending, Harry Hill's Fruit Corner and Grievously Body Radio. In 1998 he appeared on TV in Comedy Nation, following that up with a role in Simon Nye written sitcom How Do You Want Me?. Also in 1998 he starred in You are Here, where he met Robert Popper, with whom he was to create Look Around You.
In 1999 he made a number of appearances in Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, playing principal character Tim Bisley's (Simon Pegg) arch-nemesis.
In 2001 Serafinowicz took the lead in BBC2 sitcom World of Pub, playing the same character as he had done in the show's run on Radio 4. He was also in The Junkies, the world's first internet sitcom.
In 2002 Look Around You debuted on BBC2. A series of 10 minute 70s school science video spoofs, they were critically acclaimed. Serafinowicz wrote the show alongside Popper, and appeared as a scientist in it. The show returned in 2005 as a spoof of 80s Tomorrow's World, with Serafinowicz playing Peter Packard, one of the presenters.
In 2003 he appeared in another Nye written sitcom, Hardware, in which he played the affable Kenny. The series returned for a second series in 2004. Also in 2004 he appeared in British rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead, playing the tidy flat-mate Pete of principal characters Shaun (Simon Pegg) and Ed (Nick Frost). He also appeared in boxing movie The Calcium Kid.
His most notable role as a voice artist was as Darth Maul in the film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, which was referenced in his appearance in the second series of Spaced. He dubbed over the voice of Ray Park who portrayed Darth Maul in costume. Serfinowicz has done many adverts and voice-overs and is a talented impressionist. He impersonated Terry Wogan in a 2003 Comic Relief spoof of Blankety Blank, and he regularly utilises his array of impressions when performing. In the week before the 2006 Academy Awards a video circulated on the Internet of a fake news item about a new Oscar statue, in which Serafinowicz imitated Alan Alda, Paul McCartney and Al Pacino. He also provided the voice for Darth Chef in an episode of South Park in 2006, as a parody of his Darth Maul role in The Phantom Menace [1].
Serafinowicz had also made a number of guest appearances in shows, including comedy shows Smack the Pony and Hippies (both 1999), Black Books (2000), I'm Alan Partridge (2002) and Little Britain (2003), comedy drama Murder Most Horrid (1999) and ITV Drama series Miss Marple (2005). Serafinowicz has made a number of guest appearances of both television and radio panel shows. He regularly appeared on The 99p Challenge and has made appearances on Have I Got News For You? and 8 Out of 10 Cats in 2005 and QI in 2003.
He is brother-in-law to Graham Linehan, co-writer of Father Ted.
He is soon to appear in British film Sixty Six, about a Jewish boy whose Bar Mitzvah is scheduled for the same day as the 1966 World Cup final. Serafinowicz plays Uncle Jimmy.
Work credits
On television:
- Spaced
- Look Around You (which he co-wrote and produced)
- World of Pub
- Ted and Alice
- Black Books
- Hardware
- South Park (voicing Darth Chef)
On radio:
On film:
- Shaun of the Dead, where he played Shaun and Ed's flatmate, Pete.
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, in which he voiced the Sith Lord Darth Maul.
- Sixty Six in which he will play "Uncle Jimmy"