Lee Evans

Lee Evans is an English actor, musician and former stand-up comedian who rose to fame in the 1990s with energetic, physical observational comedy and won the Perrier Comedy Award in 1993 for his Edinburgh Festival work. He made his cinema debut in the Peter Chelsom comedy Funny Bones (1995), for which he won a best actor prize at the Paris Film Festival, and went on to Hollywood parts in Mouse Hunt (1997), The Fifth Element (1997), There's Something About Mary (1998), The Ladies Man (2000) and The Medallion (2003). He voiced Train in The Magic Roundabout (2005) and played Malcolm Taylor in the Doctor Who special Planet of the Dead (2009), and he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for playing Leo Bloom in The Producers. He co-wrote the BBC sitcom So What Now?, retired from stand-up in 2014 and returned briefly in 2017 for Shakespeare and Pinter plays.