Neil Edmond

Acting

Neil Edmond

Born 1970-12-01 · Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK

Neil Edmond (born December 1970) is a British actor and comedy writer. Neil was a member of the comedic sketch trio The Consultants, alongside James Rawlings and Justin Edwards. In 2002 they won the Perrier award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Consultants went on to record four series for BBC Radio 4 between 2002 and 2005. He wrote and performed radio sitcom Knocker for BBC 7's and contributed to two series of Bigipedia. In 2012 he appeared as beleaguered emergency architect Mike Whitaker in Twenty Twelve. Edmond has also been known to perform solo character work, with his Space School headmaster and Market Researcher being particular live favourites. He was a regular stooge for the late Ken Campbell (1941-2008), is an ex-member of sketch group The Benders, is a frequent volunteer at Scene & Heard, played 'Ian' in interactive web comedy Where are the Joneses? and provides improvised 'interpretative dance' accompaniment for readings of horror novels and the poetry of Danielle Steel at Robin Ince's Book Club. Home Time, co-written with Emma Fryer, was nominated for Best Sitcom at both the 2010 South Bank Show Awards and The Rose D'Or. In 2019 he played the recurring character of Ian in the Martin Clunes sitcom Warren on BBC1.

Acting credits

Alice Through the Looking Glass poster
6.6

Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.

Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016

Johnny English Strikes Again poster
6.3

Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker. For this mission to succeed, he’ll need all of his skills - what few he has - as the man with yesterday’s analogue methods faces off against tomorrow’s digital technology.

Johnny English Strikes Again

2018

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy poster
6.4

Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, she's pursued by a younger man and maybe – just maybe – her son's science teacher.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

2025

Mindhorn poster
6.1

A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.

Mindhorn

2016

Your Christmas or Mine? poster
6.4

Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.

Your Christmas or Mine?

2022

The Phantom of the Open poster
6.8

Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.

The Phantom of the Open

2022

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10.0

A restaurant diner is unable to make a pig of himself.

Bistro

2010

Swede Caroline poster
4.8

Competitive vegetable growers investigate the theft of prize marrow plants and uncover a tangled conspiracy.

Swede Caroline

2024

Covert poster
8.0

In a covert listing station an operative picks up a telephone conversation between someone he suspects is an agent and someone called mother. He follows their communication and intercepts another message about cakes and candles. However has he stumbled upon a plot of major importance or just something innocent?

Covert

2002

Trauma poster
5.2

Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.

Trauma

2004

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NR

The story revolves around the rather self-centred ladies and gentlemen living in a Victorian house with their maids and money looking after them and not really anything to be that concerned about in the world.

Ladies and Gentlemen

2007

Ant Muzak poster
7.0

Even cult 80s popstars need to do the shopping... Documentary-style comedy about Adam & The Ants making a charmingly off-kilter trip to their local 24-hour supermarket at 2am on a nondescript weekday morning. Cruising the aisles like some kind of bizarre surrogate family-unit, the flamboyantly dressed band-members are thrown into crisis when one of their 2 drummers suddenly goes missing.

Ant Muzak

2002

Hallo Panda poster
7.0

An unromantic comedy about a man who has to masturbate a talking black and white bear.

Hallo Panda

2006

Get Real Dude poster
NR

If you want to make the finest wine, use the sweet grape on the vine. It's a few bloody skits from bloody Sam Campbell.

Get Real Dude

2019

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NR

A comic tale of one man's quest for world fame by burying alive himself for a month.

Buried Alive

2005

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NR

Ian Hedge is a very ordinary man who sees himself as a secret super hero with a mission to protect the distressed and vulnerable. Single and living in a rented room with his sour-tempered landlady Mrs Wardle, Ian works 'undercover' as a council worker and spends the days walking the streets of the city in a high viz jacket holding a trundle wheel, with his costume ready to go in his backpack.

Brilliantman!

2015

We Wish You a Mandy Christmas poster
NR

Nobody actually likes bread sauce, do they? It tastes like someone’s eaten a piece of bread, chewed it up and spat it onto your plate. Merry Christmas.

We Wish You a Mandy Christmas

2021