Tim Key

Acting

Tim Key

Born 1976-09-02 · Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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.

Acting credits

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

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

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 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

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

The Ballad of Wallis Island poster
7.2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sausage Poem poster
NR

Written and narrated by award-winning UK comedian Tim Key (The Ballad of Wallis Island, Taskmaster, Alan Partridge), this bizarre poem follows a seemingly tranquil date night that goes horribly wrong… Produced and directed by illustrator and animator Rob Ling, with music and sound by Paul Steel.

Sausage Poem

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

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

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

Chess Ham poster
8.0

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

Chess Ham

2025

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

Regular poster
NR

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

Regular

2017

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

Behind the camera