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Lenny Henry biography. Ever since I was a kid, I have wanted to be a comedian. I always play acted. I always pretended to be The Man from UNCLE or Batman or Napoleon Solo or The Man in the Suitcase. This play acting led to me doing lots of impressions at school.
2001 GOLDEN ROSE OF MONTREUX. Winner of the main award. This was for Lenny Henry In Pieces. This blew my mind. Three of a Kind had previously won a Silver Rose and an International Press Prize. So for In Pieces to win the Golden Rose was a major achievement. You can still see the look of shock on my face in all the photographs.
Lenny’s debut fiction title will be published in Autumn 2021 and his first picture book, You Can Do Anything, Tyrone - the story of a little boy with big dreams - will be published in Spring 2022. Lenny says: “This is an incredibly exciting moment of my life; I was a voracious reader throughout my childhood even though there were not that many books in our house.
TV Work. I started working in television when I was 16 years old. As stated elsewhere, I won a talent competition called New Faces. And then I was catapulted into the world of television via Britain's first ever all-black sitcom, The Fosters, which starred Norman Beaton as well as myself and various others. This was one of […]
Lenny is spearheading a landmark new research centre aimed at examining diversity across the UK’s media. Birmingham City University opened its doors in March to the ‘Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity’, which looks at representation across the industry including journalism, acting, film, TV and radio in both front-of-house and behind the scenes roles.
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Lenny Henry In Pieces, 2000. In Pieces came after a period following Delbert where I didn't want to do any more sketch shows. Because I had done Tiswas, The Cheapest Show on The Telly, Three of a Kind, The Lenny Henry Show, Lenny Henry Tonite, and two seasons of the Delbert sitcom, I didn't want to do sketch shows anymore.
ITV has commissioned ‘Three Little Birds’, written by Lenny and produced by Douglas Road Productions in association with Tiger Aspect Productions. Lenny said: “My mother spoke often about how difficult life was back in the day when she first arrived in Britain to begin her new life. The stories she told and indeed the narratives my ...
Lenny was photographed last year by Martyn Burdon for the BP Portrait awards 2020. Martyn has drawn the most amazing portrait which he has given us permission to use on the website and here is a link to the website which went live with the exhibition this week.
There is somebody called N. K. Jemisin. She wrote the Broken Earth series, a novel called The City We Became, and also a novel called The Fifth Season. She's a sci-fi writer, and a bit like Ta-Nehisi Coates working on Black Panther, she's just started to write on The Green Lantern. She's a very powerful writer.
