Robert Webb
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 29, 1972 (age 54)
- Birthplace
- Lincolnshire, England, UK
Biography
Robert Patrick Webb (born 29 September 1972) is an English comedian, actor and writer. He rose to prominence alongside David Mitchell as the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb. Mitchell and Webb starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show, in which Webb plays Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne. The two also starred in the sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look, for which they then performed a stage adaptation, The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb. The duo starred in the 2007 film Magicians, and in the short-lived series Ambassadors in 2013. Webb headed the critically acclaimed sitcom The Smoking Room and was a performer in the sketch show Bruiser. From 2017 to 2021, he starred alongside Mitchell in the Channel 4 comedy-drama Back. Webb is also a regular comedy panellist, appearing on shows such as The Bubble, Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI, Mastermind, Argumental, and Was It Something I Said? He has also hosted and narrated several programmes. His other sitcom appearances include Blessed, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, and Fresh Meat. Robert Patrick Webb was born on 29 September 1972 in Boston, Lincolnshire, and grew up in Woodhall Spa. His parents divorced when he was five years old, with his mother remarrying a year or so later. He has two older brothers and a younger half-sister. He grew up on a council estate, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Horncastle. Having grown up watching the sitcoms The Young Ones, Blackadder, and Only Fools and Horses, he became interested in drama and poetry while in school, and began writing parodies. At the age of 13, partly because of resentment towards his father, he made a conscious effort to lose his native Lincolnshire accent and now speaks with a more neutral English accent. When he was 17 and in the lower sixth form preparing for his A-levels, his mother died of breast cancer, and he moved in with his father and re-sat his A-levels. In 1992, Webb attended Robinson College, Cambridge, where he studied English and became vice-president of the Footlights, where he met David Mitchell. The two met at an audition for a Footlights production of Cinderella in 1993.
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Filmography
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep
The Antiques Riviera
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
100 Questions with Tom Simons
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
High Hoops
TV · as Mr. Holt · 20 eps
Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping
TV · 6 eps
Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
Movie · as Martin
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains
TV · as Guest · 1 ep
Whitstable Pearl
TV · as Tom Grant · 9 eps
Inside the Pet Food Factory
Movie · as Self
Frayed
TV · as Rufus · 4 eps
Back
TV · as Andrew · 12 eps
House of Games
TV · as Self - Panellist · 5 eps
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Movie · as Nick
Our Ex-Wife
TV · as Jack · 1 ep
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
TV · as Self · 1 ep
National Treasure
TV · as Robert Webb · 4 eps
Insert Name Here
TV · as Self - Panelist · 1 ep
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Movie · as Self
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
TV · 1 ep
You Saw Them Here First
TV · as Himself - Narrator · 4 eps
Ambassadors
TV · as Neil Tilly · 3 eps
Rick and Morty
TV · as Knight of the Sun (voice) · 1 ep
The Last Leg
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Was It Something I Said?
TV · as Self - Panellist · 1 ep
The Wedding Video
Movie · as Tim
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
TV · as Jedrington Secret-Past · 3 eps
Gadget Man
TV · 1 ep
Alexander Armstrong's Big Ask
TV · as Self, Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
The Toys That Made Christmas
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Death in Paradise
TV · as Justin West · 2 eps
Fresh Meat
TV · as Dan · 5 eps
Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 3
Movie · as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
Movie · as Jeremy "Jez" Usborne
Channel 4's Comedy Gala
TV · 6 eps
Robert's Web
TV · 6 eps
The Bubble
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Let's Dance for Sport Relief
TV · as Self - Judge · 1 ep
You Have Been Watching
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
TV · as Self · 1 ep
My Life In Verse
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
Movie
Argumental
TV · 47 eps
Lily Allen and Friends
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
All Star Mr & Mrs
TV · 1 ep
Magicians
Movie · as Karl Allen
Would I Lie to You?
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb
Movie
Confetti
Movie · as Michael
That Mitchell and Webb Look
TV · as Various Characters · 24 eps
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
TV · 1 ep
Blessed
TV · 8 eps
Doctor Who
TV · as Robot 2 (voice) · 1 ep
Twisted Tales
TV · as Colin · 1 ep
The Smoking Room
TV · as Robin · 16 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · as Tim Kendall · 1 ep
Peep Show
TV · as Jeremy Usborne · 54 eps
Celebrity Mastermind
TV · 1 ep
Spine Chillers
TV · 1 ep
QI
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Mitchell and Webb Situation
TV · 6 eps
Fun at the Funeral Parlour
TV · 1 ep
Bruiser
TV · 6 eps
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
TV · as Glorfinoid (voice) · 1 ep
Urban Gothic
TV · as Bentley Kaye · 1 ep
People Like Us
TV · as Tom Wolfson · 1 ep
Comic Act
Movie · as Mario
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV · as Self, Self - Host · 1 ep
Soccer AM
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Frank Skinner Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Room 101
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Have I Got News for You
TV · as Self, Self - Host · 1 ep