Adrian Edmondson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He went to Manchester University to study drama. Whilst he was there he met Rik Mayall, and the pair began performing as 20th Century Coyote. The act continued after university when Adrian & Rik moved to London, and they became two of the leading lights in the new 'alternative comedy' scene, performing at the newly established Comedy Store, and setting up their own club, The Comic Strip, with 'Peter Richardson', Nigel Planer, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, and Alexei Sayle. This spawned two 1980s TV series: The Young Ones (1982), and The Comic Strip Presents... (1982) In the 1990's Ade & Rik continued their partnership with a new series called Bottom (1991), which ran for three seasons and became a major success on the live circuit. It was basically a live sitcom, liberally sprinkled with slapstick humour, and the pair did 5 long tours between 1993 and 2003. Simultaneously, Adrian established himself as an actor, doing two improvised TV films under the Screen One and Screen Two umbrella, with director Les Blair: Screen Two: Honest, Decent and True (1986), and Screen One: News Hounds (1990) (winner of the BAFTA for best single drama). He was a regular in the hospital drama Holby City (1999) from 2005 - 2008. He took the lead in a drama documentary about the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in the series Surviving Disaster (2006), and appeared as Henry Austen in the TV movie Miss Austen Regrets (2008), the film Blood (2012), and the drama series Prey (2014). But his most notable dramatic role to date is that of Count Rostov in the BBC series War & Peace (2016). 에이드리언 에드먼드슨는 배우로, 대표작으로 Guest House Paradiso, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye, Summer School가 있으며, 그 외에도 미드소머 머더스, 그레이엄 노튼쇼, 데스 인 파라다이스, Holby City, Ready, Steady, Cook, Film '72, Natural World, Screen Two, The One Show, 스타워즈 에피소드 8: 라스트 제다이, Would I Lie to You?, 삼체 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. 특히 2026년에는 Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard에도 참여해서 활동중이다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2026년 Codes에서 Head of MI6 역을 맡았다. 2026년 Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard에 출연했다. 2026년 Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen에 출연했다.