Ricky Dene Gervais (born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician and writer. Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. Gervais has also starred in a number of Hollywood films, assuming leading roles in Ghost Town and The Invention of Lying. He has performed on four sell-out stand-up comedy tours, written the best-selling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast in the world as of March 2009, The Ricky Gervais Show. He has won a multitude of awards and honours, including seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and the 2006 Rose d'Or, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2007 he was voted the 11th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 3rd greatest stand-up comic. In 2010 he was named on the TIME 100 list of the world's most influential people. Gervais hosted both the 2010 and 2011 Golden Globe Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ricky Gervais, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Dog Man | Flippy (voice) | 2025-01-30 |
Series | German Genius | 2023-05-23 | |
Movie | Oppenheimer | The Atomic Bomb | 2023-07-19 |
Movie | George Michael: Freedom Uncut | Self | 2022-06-16 |
Movie | Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank | Ika Chu (voice) | 2022-07-14 |
Movie | Kick Out the Jams: The Story of XFM | Self | 2022-08-31 |
Movie | Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again | Dr. McPhee (voice) | 2022-12-08 |
Movie | The Willoughbys | The Cat (voice) | 2020-04-22 |
Series | After Life | Tony | 2019-03-08 |
Movie | The Nazi Pug: Joke or Hate? | Self (Archival Footage) | 2019-07-29 |
Movie | Suede: The Insatiable Ones | Himself | 2018-11-24 |
Movie | Jim Norton: Mouthful of Shame | Self (uncredited) | 2017-03-14 |
Movie | George Michael: Freedom | Self | 2017-10-16 |
Movie | The Last Laugh | Self | 2016-04-18 |
Movie | David Brent: Life on the Road | David Brent | 2016-08-19 |
Movie | Special Correspondents | Albert Finch | 2016-04-22 |
Series | Galavant | Xanax | 2015-01-04 |
Series | Hot Ones | Himself | 2015-03-12 |
Movie | Derek Special | Derek | 2015-04-03 |
Movie | The Little Prince | The Conceited Man (voice) | 2015-07-29 |
Movie | Muppets Most Wanted | Dominic Badguy | 2014-03-20 |
Movie | 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy | Self | 2014-05-24 |
Movie | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Dr. McPhee | 2014-12-17 |
Series | Derek | Derek | 2013-01-30 |
Movie | The Return of Brent | David Brent | 2013-03-15 |
Movie | Escape from Planet Earth | Mr Bing (voice) | 2013-02-14 |
Movie | The Office Retrospective | Self | 2013-05-16 |
Movie | David Blaine: Real or Magic | Self | 2013-11-19 |
Movie | The Unbelievers | Self | 2013-12-13 |
Movie | Talking Funny | Himself | 2011-04-22 |
Movie | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | Voice of Argonaut | 2011-08-18 |
Movie | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | Self (archive footage) | 2011-10-21 |
Series | Life's Too Short | Ricky Gervais | 2011-11-10 |
Movie | Cemetery Junction | Len Taylor | 2010-04-14 |
Movie | This Side of the Truth, A Truly 'Honest' Making of The Invention of Lying | Self | 2010-01-19 |
Series | Louie | Unknown | 2010-06-29 |
Series | The Ricky Gervais Show | Himself | 2010-02-19 |
Series | An Idiot Abroad | Self | 2010-09-23 |
Movie | Ricky Gervais: Out of England 2 | Himself | 2010-12-18 |
Movie | Ricky Gervais Live 4: Science | Himself | 2010-11-21 |
Series | Alan Carr: Chatty Man | Unknown | 2009-06-14 |
Movie | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Dr. McPhee | 2009-05-20 |
Movie | Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants | Self | 2009-07-14 |
Series | Horne & Corden | Unknown | 2009-03-10 |
Movie | The Invention of Lying | Mark Bellison | 2009-10-02 |
Movie | Prequel: The Dawn of Lying | Mark Bellison | 2009-12-17 |
Movie | SpongeBob's Truth or Square | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 2009-11-06 |
Movie | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Self (uncredited) | 2008-10-02 |
Movie | Ghost Town | Dr. Bertram Pincus | 2008-09-19 |
Movie | Ricky Gervais: Out of England | Himself | 2008-11-15 |
Movie | Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool | 2007-03-07 | |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Himself | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Concert for Diana | David Brent | 2007-07-01 |
Movie | Stardust | Ferdy the Fence | 2007-08-09 |
Movie | Ricky Gervais Live 3: Fame | Himself | 2007-11-12 |
Movie | For Your Consideration | Martin Gibb | 2006-11-17 |
Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
Movie | Night at the Museum | Dr. McPhee | 2006-12-20 |
Movie | Valiant | Bugsy (voice) | 2005-03-25 |
Series | The Office | Unknown | 2005-03-24 |
Series | Extras | Andy Millman | 2005-07-21 |
Series | Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List | Unknown | 2005-08-03 |
Movie | Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics | Himself | 2004-11-15 |
Movie | Ricky Gervais Live: Animals | Himself | 2003-11-17 |
Movie | Offensive: The Real Derek and Clive | Self | 2002-12-25 |
Series | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Unknown | 2002-06-08 |
Series | The Office | David Brent | 2001-07-09 |
Series | Alias | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
Movie | Dog Eat Dog | Bouncer | 2001-12-07 |
Series | Meet Ricky Gervais | 2000-09-22 | |
Series | Spaced | Unknown | 1999-09-24 |
Series | The 11 O'Clock Show | Self | 1998-09-30 |
Series | The Daily Show | Himself | 1996-07-22 |
Series | Room 101 | Unknown | 1994-07-04 |
Series | GMTV | Unknown | 1993-01-01 |
Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
Series | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Unknown | 1988-09-05 |