Reece Shearsmith Biography
Reece Shearsmith (Reeson Wayne Shearsmith) is an English actor, writer and comedian. He created, wrote and starred in sketch show The League of Gentlemen, along with Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, and Jeremy Dyson. He co-created, wrote and starred in the dark comedy series Psychoville.
Reece Shearsmith and Pemberton wrote and starred in their anthology series Inside No. 9. In The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville and Inside No. 9, Shearsmith plays multiple characters. The League of Gentlemen initially began as a stage act in 1995. It was then transferred to BBC Radio 4 in 1997 as On the Town with the League of Gentlemen.
Later, it became a television series on BBC Two in 1999. Shearsmith and his colleagues were awarded a British Academy Television Award, a Royal Television Society Award, and the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux. Following The League of Gentlemen, Shearsmith appeared in comedy programmes including Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere among others.
Reece Shearsmith appeared in two episodes of the award-winning pop-culture comedy Spaced as Robot Wars. Between March 2006 and January 2007, he appeared in the West End as Leo Bloom in The Producers. In 2010 he appeared in the John Landis black comedy Burke and Hare. The following year, his new musical Betty Blue Eyes opened in the West End.
Reece Shearsmith played downtrodden husband Gilbert Chilvers (a chiropodist) alongside Sarah Lancashire. That same year, he played Harry Wiseman in Eric & Ernie, a feature-length TV drama about Morecambe and Wise. In 2012, he appeared in Bad Sugar, a comedy pilot written by Sam Bain & Jesse Armstrong. Hee played Patrick Troughton in An Adventure in Space and Time in 2013. The docu-drama was about the conception and making of Doctor Who and it was written by Mark Gatiss.
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Reece Shearsmith worked with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in the first series of House of Fools as Martin. He and Pemberton returned to BBC2 with a new dark comedy series called Inside No. 9 in 2014. Each episode of the anthology series takes place in a different ‘No. 9’ location. The following year, he played Gagan Rassmussen in the Series 9 Doctor Who episode “Sleep No More”.
On 10th October 2015, Reece Shearsmith appeared in Hangmen at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2016, he appeared in Mid Morning Matters With Alan Partridge. That same year, December, a Christmas special of Inside No. 9 was aired in and a third series in 2017. In 2017, he appeared in the title role in The Dresser at the Chichester Festival Theatre, as well as reuniting with The League of Gentlemen for three television specials, transmitted on BBC2 in December 2017. He appears as himself in the 2018 short film To Trend on Twitter in aid of young people with cancer charity CLIC Sargent.
Reece Shearsmith Age
Reece Shearsmith was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. He was born on 27th August 1969. His current age is 49 years old as of 2019.
Reece Shearsmith Height
The English actor, Reece Shearsmith, is best known for TV series The League of Gentlemen and Psychoville. He is relatively tall. He has a height of 5ft 7 inches or 1.7 Meters.
Reece Shearsmith Net Worth
The Bretton Hall Drama College graduate has made a huge fortune from his career. He is a quarter of the award-winning comedy team The League of Gentlemen. Additionally he has appeared in a variety of television shows and films. He has also written and performed in London’s long-running weekly satirical show Newsrevue. All these have helped him spice up his net worth basket. Reece Shearsmith currently has a net worth of $1.7 million.
Reece Shearsmith Wedding
Reece Shearsmith got married to his wife Jane Shearsmith on Valentines Day ( 14 February) of 2001. The two have been married for seventeen years and shares the bond since the moment they met. During the wedding Steve Pemberton was his best man. The couple first met when Reece was on tour during the play. While on trip Reece and Jane shared the chemistry that seems to last a lifetime.
The pair started seeing each other. After dating for a while, they decided to tie the knot. The pair exchanged the wedding vows in a secret wedding. The pair had an intimate wedding ceremony with their invited guests, family and close friends. After their marriage, Reece and Jane left for their honeymoon to Lapland.
The pair shared quiet cherishable moments there as even today Reece regards those moments as his “happiest” moments in life. One year after the wedding, they were blessed with a baby girl. Jane gave birth to their first born child in September 2002. The couple named their baby girl Holly, who is now at her teenage. The pair was also blessed with a son whom they named Danny.
Reece Shearsmith Movies And Tv Shows | Reece Shearsmith Spaced | Reece Shearsmith Doctor Who | Reece Shearsmith League Of Gentlemen Characters
- 2019 Good Omens
- 2017 The League of Gentlemen
- 2016 Galavant
- 2016 Stag
- 2015 Hangmen by Martin McDonagh – The Royal Court Theatre
- 2015 Doctor Who
- 2014–present Inside No. 9
- 2014 The Widower
- 2013 Comedy Showcase
- 2012 Henry IV
- 2012 Him Indoors
- 2012 Silent Night of the Living Dead
- 2011 Betty Blue Eyes(The Novello Theatre)
- 2008 Free Jimmy Ante
- 2006 The Producers (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)
- 2002 The League of Gentlemen
- 2000 The League of Gentlemen
- 1998 Alexei Sayle’s Merry-Go-Round
- 1995 Alas Smith and Jones
- 1995 The League of Gentlemen
- 1995 P.R.O.B.E. – The Devil of Winterborne
- 1995 London’s Burning
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Reece Shearsmith Interview
Q: You’re all really busy. How did you find time to reunite to make these specials?
Reece Shearsmith: We finally did the thing that we had never done before, which was decide a point in the future when we would do this. Because time rolls on, and another thing happens and then you’re not free. So we thought, “Right, let’s really decide we will all write The League of Gentlemen and do it in this timeframe.” And we did; we stopped things happening and this became the project that we were doing. So it had to happen then!
Q: Have you all enjoyed the reunion?
Reece Shearsmith: Absolutely. It took a long time to get us back together again. But, it’s been joyful and the writing process has been completely easy, organic. It flowed out of us without it being a difficult process. We weren’t thinking, “Well, what would we do if we brought it back?”
Q: Why did you decide to do it as three half-hour episodes?
Reece Shearsmith: It actually worked better that way round for the unfolding story because we could make it more cliff-hangery. We could make it so you can’t wait to see the next one, hopefully. An hour is a very different thing to three half hours. And it fitted with the idea that we wanted people to feel that when it comes back on, it’s like it’s never been away.
Q: How did you choose which characters to include and which ones to exclude?
Reece Shearsmith: Well, that was hard. Certain ones presented themselves that we thought we should bring back and that it would be remiss for the audience’s sake to leave out. Sadly, we couldn’t fit them all in. We had story lines for some and we had to completely extract them because of time pressures.
Q: Which characters do you enjoy performing most?
Reece Shearsmith: I do enjoy doing Geoff. He’s a funny character. I also like doing Legz Akimbo, the theatre company. We could do a whole series of them touring – that would be fantastic. That’s next!
Q: You throw yourself into the characters, don’t you?
Reece Shearsmith: Yes. Like today we did Charlie and Stella. Once you’re in it and doing that character, you’re suddenly embodied as that person. It’s the funniest thing you’re doing that day and you want to completely commit to it. I just went up to Jeremy as Stella and he said, “Oh, there she is.” I said, “What?” He replied, “It’s just the Stella I remember. It’s not a man in drag, it’s just a woman.” I thought that was the best compliment he could have given me. But you know, you love every character when you’re doing them, and you give every effort to make them real.
Q: Was it essential that Edward and Tubbs appeared in the specials?
Reece Shearsmith: It would be strange to not have some sort of return from those two as they were very iconic to the show, so we’ve given that some thought. They have struck such a chord over the years. You see our catchphrase, “a local shop for local people,” everywhere now, with no irony.
Q: Is there a worry that critics might carp that it was a mistake to bring it back?
Reece Shearsmith: Yes, there is that worry, but if you thought too long about that, you wouldn’t do it. Of course, even if this was better than the original League of Gentlemen, there’d be some who would say, “They should never have done it and it’s terrible now.” Because to them, it’s in aspic as this brilliant thing and you meddle with it at your peril. They think you should just remain enigmatic. But then you’d never do anything.
Q: Is it hard to know if you have gone too far in certain scenes?
Reece Shearsmith: Not really. I think we have always been very diligent about how we do that and about how we shock – if we do shock – and what line you cross. We learned very early on that we have a responsibility as we are piped into people’s homes. I think we earn it if we do something shocking. We’ve always tried to have you care about the characters, so if something happens, it matters. And if we swear, we do it for a reason, not willy-nilly. In this, we’ve just tried to be really truthful to the story we’re telling and hopefully it won’t feel like it’s gratuitous. I never felt like we were gratuitous. I always think saying that is a bit of a cop-out. It does us a disservice to think that we are just shock merchants. We really try quite hard to craft it.
Q: When viewers leave Royston Vasey, what will they take with them?
Reece Shearsmith: I think we do deliver all you would expect if you were a fan. I think there are a lot of questions answered and lots of new questions posed, and it is quite moving. It is an absolute celebration of that world and those characters.
SOURCE: www.beyondthejoke.co.uk