Tim Key

Acting

Tim Key

Born

1976-09-02 (50)

Place of birth

Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

75 titles

Tim Key (born 2 September 1976) is an English writer, performance poet, comedian and actor. In 2009, he was the winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was also nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Mickey 17 poster
6.8

Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

Mickey 17

2025

See How They Run poster
6.3

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.

See How They Run

2022

Wicked Little Letters poster
6.9

When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.

Wicked Little Letters

2024

The Ballad of Wallis Island poster
7.3

An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.

The Ballad of Wallis Island

2025

Love Wedding Repeat poster
5.7

While trying to make his sister's wedding day go smoothly, Jack finds himself juggling an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleep sedative, and the girl that got away in alternate versions of the same day.

Love Wedding Repeat

2020

Days of the Bagnold Summer poster
6.1

Sue works in a library. Daniel eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father's new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together.

Days of the Bagnold Summer

2020

Talk Radio poster
6.7

Pauline and Barry are a seemingly happily married middled aged couple. That is until Pauline tunes into relationship hour on Talk Radio and thinks she recognises the nameless voice that’s relaying a lifetime of regrets live on the radio.

Talk Radio

2021

Stroke of Genius poster
NR

STROKE OF GENIUS juxtaposes the calm and emptiness of a morning spent waiting for a letter, where ostensibly little to nothing happens, with the turmoil on a cosmic scale caused by the waiting man's existential ambivalence about his legacy and purpose.

Stroke of Genius

2025

Sausage Poem poster
NR

This bizarre poem follows a seemingly tranquil date night that goes horribly wrong…

Sausage Poem

2026

Chess Ham poster
4.5

A documentary recounting Sam Campbell's journey to create Chess Ham, the Chesham Chess Ham.

Chess Ham

2025

2010s · 19 titles

One Day poster
7.4

After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

One Day

2011

The Double poster
6.5

An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.

The Double

2014

I Give It a Year poster
5.5

After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy.

I Give It a Year

2013

Greed poster
5.6

A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.

Greed

2019

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa poster
6.6

When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

2013

Sardines poster
9.0

It is the day of Rebecca and Jeremy's engagement party, and everyone (well, nearly everyone) has turned up to the old house to wish them well. Except that one of the bedrooms, the one with all the old baggage in it, has been left unlocked...

Sardines

2014

The Harry Hill Movie poster
4.7

Harry Hill embarks on a road trip to Blackpool with his Nan when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live.

The Harry Hill Movie

2013

Wonderdate poster
6.0

A man dazzles a girl on the perfect first date but why won't she text back? He retraces his steps, reexamining the date.

Wonderdate

2018

The Games That Time Forgot: Cricket on Horseback and Other Forgotten Sports poster
NR

Alex Horne tries to discover why some games survived, and examines the best of those that did not. Whilst revisiting his own childhood haunts, he attempts to relaunch the ancient sport of the Quintain, horseless jousting, and tries his damnedest to understand the rules of the Jingling Match. Not forgetting his attempt to restage the forgotten spectacle of Cricket on Horseback. This might just be a journey to the very heart of sport itself, but if not, it will be a lot of fun playing games that have not been seen for hundreds of years and even more fun discovering why.

The Games That Time Forgot: Cricket on Horseback and Other Forgotten Sports

2010

Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? poster
8.2

Documentary looking back at Alan Partridge's journey from broadcaster caricature to the award-winning study of complexity and pathos that he has become.

Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?

2017

No artwork available
8.0

Split-screen, bilingual stop-motion film, in which two neighbours turn to technology in their search for companionship and acceptance.

Two Films About Loneliness

2014

Regular poster
NR

A man in a coffee shop asks the barista if she ever thinks about him.

Regular

2017

No artwork available
NR

Silent comedy drama starring Tim Key and Matthew Perry as two men who try to entertain a crowd by throwing their dogs in the air.

The Dog Thrower

2014

I Decided to Leave poster
6.0

A man decides to leave. He knows he wants to do something with his life. He just hasn't figured out what yet.

I Decided to Leave

2015

The Overcoat poster
NR

A lonely social outcast gets a glimpse of what life is like for someone popular, and cannot let it go, even in death.

The Overcoat

2017

Very Few Fish poster
NR

A short film. In London, two separate couples go on dates with each other to try and fall in love.

Very Few Fish

2013

No artwork available
NR

Tent, from Jonathan van Tulleken's collection of short films centred around the build up to the 2012 Olympics, follows Paul, who has sold all his belongings and is camping next to the Olympic site.

Games On: Tent

2012

Anthony poster
4.0

Christmas Eve. An enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere on their busiest night.

Anthony

2014

Tree poster
6.9

In 2013, Daniel Kitson wrote a play for two people (himself and (the mighty) Tim Key) to perform for a week or two at the (also mighty) Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. In 2015 that play was restaged at the (again, mighty) Old Vic in London for something like 28 performances, in total. This is one of those performances, in real time, start to finish.

Tree

2015

Series credits

The One Show poster
4.3

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

The One Show

2006

Skins poster
8.1

Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

Skins

2007

Taskmaster poster
8.3

Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, and with the help of his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne, they will set out to test the wiles, wit, wisdom and skills of five hyper-competitive comedians. Who will be crowned the Taskmaster champion?

Taskmaster

2015

Never Mind the Buzzcocks poster
7.1

Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

1996

Inside No. 9 poster
8.1

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

Inside No. 9

2014

Inside No. 9 poster
8.1

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

Inside No. 9

2014

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown poster
7.4

Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz.

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

2013

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown poster
7.4

Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz.

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

2013

Pointless Celebrities poster
6.3

Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.

Pointless Celebrities

2011

House of Games poster
6.1

Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.

House of Games

2017

Brassic poster
8.3

A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.

Brassic

2019

Peep Show poster
8.0

Two dysfunctional flatmates reveal all their inner thoughts - whether dark, stupid or embarrassing. Or, occasionally, all three...

Peep Show

2003

Playhouse Presents poster
6.0

Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on 12 April 2012, on Sky Arts 1. Each episode is written by a different writer with a different cast.

Playhouse Presents

2012

Celebrity Mastermind poster
6.0

Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner.

Celebrity Mastermind

2003

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer poster
7.0

Four different celebrities all aim to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their baking skills.

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

2018

After Life poster
7.9

Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.

After Life

2019

The Paper poster
7.1

The documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch is in search of a new subject when they discover a historic Toledo newspaper, The Truth Teller, and the eager publisher trying to revive it.

The Paper

2025

Trust poster
6.9

The trials and triumphs of one of the wealthiest and unhappiest families of the United States, the Gettys. Originally planned to be told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome.

Trust

2018

Plebs poster
7.3

Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just happens to be ancient Rome.

Plebs

2013

Saxondale poster
7.5

Steve Coogan plays Tommy Saxondale: an ex-roadie with anger management issues and a pest-control business. Tommy is a little arrogant, a little egotistical and feels the world owes him more respect than it typically shows him. He has an assistant named Raymond who lives in a spare room in Tommy's house, a live-in girlfriend named Magz who owns a T-shirt business, and a receptionist named Vicky who has a tendency to drive him up the wall.

Saxondale

2006

No More Jockeys poster
6.0

Name a person, and a category they fall under – while avoiding naming people from all previous categories.

No More Jockeys

2020

Zapped poster
6.5

Brian Weaver, an online data marketing assistant (even he doesn't know what that is), finds himself abruptly transported to a parallel world, a place of bizarre creatures, magical forces and psychopathic fairies.

Zapped

2016

A Young Doctor's Notebook poster
7.1

A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means.

A Young Doctor's Notebook

2012

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge poster
7.3

Famous DJ Alan Partridge gives us an insight into what happens behind the microphone at North Norfolk digital radio.

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

2010

This Time with Alan Partridge poster
7.8

Alan is handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in as co-host on This Time, a weekday magazine show. But can he capitalise on the opportunity?

This Time with Alan Partridge

2019

Angelo's poster
7.0

Angelo's is a sitcom created for Five and Paramount Comedy by Bwark Productions. It follows the ups and downs of everyday life in a central London greasy spoon café.

Angelo's

2007

Taskmaster Bonus Material poster
NR

Interviews, outtakes and extra footage from Taskmaster UK

Taskmaster Bonus Material

2015

Together poster
4.7

When Tom and Ellen are together, things seem to work. It's only in the spaces outside the relationship - the intrusions of real life, and the deadly collaboration of parents, siblings, friends and exes - that the flailing attempts to make good first impressions, arrange first dates and hold a relationship together, seem to unravel.

Together

2015

The Horne Section TV Show poster
6.6

Alex Horne steps out of Greg Davies' shadow as he gets the chance to host his own late-night chat show with his loyal band. But will all go to plan in this mash-up of comedy, celebs, music and mayhem?

The Horne Section TV Show

2022

Here We Go poster
6.5

Family life with no filter. The Jessops navigate life's everyday challenges - from changing jobs to kidnapping dogs.

Here We Go

2022

Cradle to Grave poster
7.7

Cradle to Grave is a British autobiographical miniseries created by Danny Baker, about his formative years in the 1970s. Produced by ITV Studios for BBC Two, it stars Laurie Kynaston as Danny, with Peter Kay and Lucy Speed as his parents Spud and Bet. In 1974, 15-year-old Danny is our guide through the ups and downs of the Baker family. With eldest daughter Sharon's impending wedding and the docks facing closure, times are challenging. So too are Danny's attempts to get closer to the opposite sex.

Cradle to Grave

2015

The Witchfinder poster
6.6

A failing witchfinder transports a suspected witch across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever.

The Witchfinder

2022

We Need Answers poster
7.2

We Need Answers is a British television panel game presented by comedians Mark Watson, Tim Key and Alex Horne. The show features a pair of celebrities answering questions which have previously been texted in by the public, or the audience, to 63336, a text message service.

We Need Answers

2009

New Zealand Spy poster
7.4

The New Zealand Intelligence Agency’s on the hunt for new recruits. When the agency places an ad in the newspaper, only three decidedly unlikely candidates respond. Thrown headfirst into the murky world of espionage, the mismatched trio fumbles its way through betrayal, romance and escalating absurdity.

New Zealand Spy

2026

Year Friends poster
NR

Comedy series following the friendships, fall-outs, births, deaths, marriages, break-ups, more deaths, and resurrections of housemates Al, Ellie, Jamie, Jonno, Liam, and Tash.

Year Friends

2016

Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive poster
7.0

Comedy series in which Rob Brydon plays himself as the host of a low-rent panel show

Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive

2006

Stag poster
6.0

An obnoxious group of friends struggle to survive the stag weekend from hell as a deer-hunting expedition in the Scottish highlands quickly turns messy.

Stag

2016

Pls Like poster
6.4

A mockumentary about a struggling comedian entering an online talent contest to find the next big vlogger.

Pls Like

2017

Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe poster
8.1

Charlie Brooker and guests cast their collective eyes over all what the telly, cinema, news and computer games have to offer, in order to wring a little laughter from a hilariously troubled world.

Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe

2013

Gap Year poster
6.4

It’s the story of British lads Dylan and Sean, childhood friends who have drifted apart, who initially set out to backpack through China but end up taking on the whole continent.

Gap Year

2017

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