John Cleese is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.
Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report.
In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Cleese co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and Fierce Creatures (1997), both of which he also wrote.
He has specialised in political and religious satire, black comedy, sketch comedy, and surreal humor. He was ranked the second-best comedian ever in a 2005 Channel 4 poll of fellow comedians.
With Yes Minister writer Antony Jay, he co-founded Video Arts, a production company making entertaining training films. In 1976, Cleese co-founded The Secret Policeman’s Ball benefit shows to raise funds for the human rights organization Amnesty International.
Jennifer Wade: Who Is John Cleese’s Wife?
Jennifer Wade is the current wife of John Cleese.
The pair married in Mustique, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 2012.
Although Jennifer Wade is a celebrity wife, her details are unknown.