Webb, Robert Patrick

Webb, Robert Patrick

Born Boston, Lincs 29 Sept. 1972; s of late Paul Webb and Patricia Webb (née Gibbons, later Limb); m 2006, Abigail Burdess; two d
actor, since 1994; author
Education
Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar Sch., Horncastle; Robinson Coll., Cambridge (BA 1995)
Career
Writer and performer, The Barracuda Jazz Option, Cambridge Footlights Summer Tour, 1994; theatre rôles include: Konstantin in The Seagull, Cambridge Fest. Th., 1997; Tom in Fat Pig, Trafalgar Studios, 2008; Bertie Wooster in Jeeves and Wooster: Perfect Nonsense, Duke of York’s Th., 2014; television includes, as actor and writer with David Mitchell: Bruiser, 2000; The Mitchell and Webb Situation, 2001; That Mitchell and Webb Look, 2006–10; as actor: Jeremy Usbourne in Peep Show, 2003–15; Ambassadors (also writer), 2013; Back, 2017, 2021. Winner, Let’s Dance for Comic Relief, 2009. Hon. DLitt Lincoln, 2018
Publications
(with D. Mitchell) This Mitchell and Webb Book, 2009; How Not to Be a Boy, 2017; Come Again (novel), 2020; contrib. to New Statesman and Daily Telegraph
Recreations
Twitter, reading, feeling inadequate as a parent
Address
c/o MMB Creative, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane E1 6QL
(020) 3582 9370