Date of Birth : Sep 11th 1971
English actor and comedian. He is known for his bizarre rants, portly figure, husky voice, loyal support of rugby league (particularly St Helens RLFC) [2] and avid consumption of Guinness. More recently he has made a successful move into dramatic acting.
Before his success in the late 90s, Vegas was a compère of many comedy nights at the Citadel Arts Centre[1] in St Helens where he developed his character’s stage performance; in London, Malcolm Hardee repeatedly booked him at his Up The Creek comedy club in Greenwich.
His career took off when he won the Festival Critics’ Award at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival, and was the first newcomer to be nominated for the Perrier Award. Vegas also won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year Competition in 1997.
His early shows The Johnny Vegas Gameshow and The Johnny Vegas Show contained elements such as Butlins style sing-a-longs, onstage pottery, verbal abuse of the audience, and drunkenness. He was accused of sexism. Audience members report great variation in the quality of the shows — on occasion the talent for ad-libbing seems to desert him to be replaced by a shambolic, fragmentary performance.
The pathos in these shows is often remarked upon as it is often hard to identify how much of the apparent disintegration of Vegas is performance and how much is a genuine, guileless display of personal pain.
CAREER
Tulip Fever ( 2018 )
Grimsby ( 2016 )
The Libertine ( 2005 )