Rowan Atkinson Biography (Age, Height, weight, Girlfriend & More)

Rowan Atkinson is a British actor who is our favourite Mr.Bean who had made all of us fall into laughter. He has also co-written and acted in Not the Nine O’Clock News in the year 1979 and it was a huge success and was a great competitor to many best-selling books at the period.

It also didn’t stop with that but has won an International Emmy and also the British Academy Award for Best Light Entertainment Programme of 1980. Rowan has won the British Academy Award and not just that but also was named as BBC Personality of the Year for the same work, Not the Nine O’Clock News in 1979.

Rowan Atkinson Biography (Age, Height, weight, Girlfriend & More)

Personal Details

Full Name Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Nick Name Mr. Bean, Rowan Atkinson
Date of Birth January 6, 1955
Age 68 Years as of January 2023
Birth Place Consett, County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Residence United Kingdom
Ethnicity White
Religion Atheist
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Nationality British
Occupations Actor, Comedian and Writer
School
  • Durham Choristers School
  • St. Bees School
College/University
  • Newcastle University
  • Queen’s College, Oxford
Education Qualification Master Degree in Electrical Engineering
Net Worth $160 Million USD as of 2023
Marital Status Divorced
Debut
  • TV: Canned Laughter (1979)
  • Film: Never Say Never Again (1983)

Physical Appearance

Eye Color Hazel
Hair Color Dark Brown
Chest 39 inches
Waist 34 inches
Biceps  14 inches
Height 5’11” Ft
Weight 80 kg

Personal Life (Family, Friends, Boyfriends, Children)

Father Eric Atkinson
Mother Ella May
Sibling Rupert Atkinson, Rodney Atkinson and Paul Atkinson (brothers)
Girlfriend/ Wife Sunetra Sastry [marriage 1990- divorced 2015]
Partner Louise Ford (2014-Present)
Children
  • Benjamin Atkinson (son)
  • Lily Sastry and Isla Atkinson (daughters)

Early life, Family and Relationship

Rowan Atkinson was born in  Consett, County Durham, England on the 6th of January 1955. He was the fourth and the youngest of his siblings and his father was a farmer and also a company director and they were married in the year 1945. Of his siblings, Paul was dead as an infant and Rodney became a Eurosceptic economist who narrowly lost the UK Independence Party leadership election in the year 2000.

He was brought as an Anglican and he got his schooling at Durham Choristers School which is a preparatory school and later he got into St. Bees School. Rowan and Rodney both got into a school in Consett where they went to Durham Choristers along with Tony Blair who was to be the future prime minister.

He also received top grades in science in A levels. He got his spot at Newcastle University getting a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and he continued for the Master degree in Electrical Engineering at the Queen’s College, Oxford.

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Success and career

Rowan has also starred in a few series of shows with comedy genre for BBC Radio 3 in the year 1979 which was named The Atkinson People. It was considered as a series of interviews with fictional great men which was also played by Rowan Atkinson himself and it was produced by Griff Rhys Jones.

Later he was into acting and his success in the Not the Nine O’Clock News took him to the lead role of Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder. The first series The Black Adder in the year 1983 was meant to be in the mediaeval age and Rowan also co-wrote it with the company of Richard Curtis and Ben Elton. He later had many parts one of which is Mr. Bean making him never gone.

Rowan Atkinson Biography (Age, Height, weight, Girlfriend & More)

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