David Walliams Biography

David Walliams (born David Williams, August 20, 1971) is an English comedy actor, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas in the sketch show Little Britain. He and Lucas have also appeared as grotesque caricatures of various rock musicians in the series Rock Profile, and in the spoof documentary series Sir Bernard's Stately Homes.

Raised in Surrey, Walliams studied Drama at Bristol University, where he was in the year below Simon Pegg. Although he can act in quite a camp manner, Walliams maintains that he is straight and, in the British tabloids, he has been linked to a number of women.
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Walliams is a professional name, for Equity purposes. This was sent up in Rock Profile, in which Robbie Williams is always referred to as 'Robbie Walliams'.

One of David's earliest TV appearances was as "The Lift" on the first series of the CBBC gameshow Incredible Games in 1994.

Among the characters played by Walliams in Little Britain are Emily Howard the "rubbish transvestite", mad Scottish hotel owner Ray McCooney and Sebastian, a camp aide to the Prime Minister on whom he has a huge crush.

In 1999 together with Mark Gatiss, he wrote and appeared in Doctor Who parodies The Pitch of Fear and The Web of Caves. He later performed in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Phantasmagoria, written by Gatiss.

In 2003 he appeared in an episode of EastEnders. He also appeared in the first episode of 'Agatha Christie's Marple'.

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