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Comedian, actor

Peter Serafinowicz

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Peter Serafinowicz is an English actor, comedian, writer, composer, voice artist, and director, among other things. His face and voice(s) are familiar to many, having appeared in film, on television and on the radio since the early 1990’s. Peter Serafinowicz can most recently be seen presenting Netflix's Million Dollar Secret. His filmed sold out Brian Butterfield show "Call Me Now", can currently be watched on Veep. Peter features in Disney’s 2025 live-action How to Train Your Dragon. His recent credits include The Gentleman (Netflix), The School for Good and Evil (Netflix), The Bubble (Netflix), Dead Hot (Tubi), and Sing 2. He played the lead in Amazon’s The Tick and appeared in HBO’s White House Plumbers with Woody Harrelson. His film work includes An Ordinary Man, Spy, Couples Retreat, Guardians of the Galaxy, Shaun of the Dead, John Wick: Chapter II, and voicing Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Peter has served as a creative consultant and performed voices for South Park on Comedy Central, and starred opposite Will Arnett in Mitch Hurtwitz comedy series, Running Wilde for Fox. Peter co-created the cult TV show Look Around You with Robert Popper, which was nominated for a BAFTA and won the Rose d’Or for Best Comedy in 2006. In 2006 he created a series of internet shorts and the success of these clips led to The Peter Serafinowicz Show being commissioned by the BBC as a series. The show went on to receive a BAFTA nomination, and in 2008 Peter won the Rose d’Or for Best Entertainer. In the week leading up to the 78th Annual Academy Awards in 2006 Peter produced an ‘E News’ style short on YouTube in which he appeared as multiple celebrities reacting to an ostentatious new design for the Oscar statue. The online popularity of the video led to the BBC commissioning The Peter Serafinowicz Show which broadcast on BBC Two in 2007 followed by a Christmas special in 2008, for which Peter won the Rose d’Or for Best Entertainer. Since the beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign, Peter has been posting YouTube videos titled 'Sassy Trump', in which he re-dubs Donald Trump's speeches with a camp voice and accents from around the UK. Peter has also directed several music videos for Hot Chip. So far he’s directed the video for “I Feel Better”, in 2010, and “Night and Day”, featuring Terence Stamp, Lara Stone and Reggie Watts, along with “Don’t Deny Your Heart” both in 2012. He also directed an homage to Rocky as the video for “Open Your Eyes” by Alex Metric in 2010. Peter’s first book: A Billion Jokes (Volume One), was published by Boxtree in late 2012. The book is a collection of one-liners that Peter has created over the past few years on Twitter. With over one-hundred credits in film and television, Peter continues to charm audiences around the globe.

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