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Dylan Moran(I)

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Dylan Moran in Run Fatboy Run (2007)
Taking place in the elven Golden Era, 1200 years before the time of Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri, The Witcher: Blood Origin tells the story of seven strangers who join together to fight an unstoppable empire. Though they hail from warring clans, Éile and Fjall must learn to trust one another if they have any hope of leading this band of outcasts on their quest to topple the oppressors. But, when gateways to other worlds are opened and a power-hungry sage unleashes a new weapon, the Seven realize they must create a monster in order to defeat one.
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Irish comedian Dylan Moran was born in Navan, County Meath in 1971. Leaving school without any qualifications at age 16, Moran quickly became attracted to stand-up comedy and debuted, in 1992, at a comedy club in Dublin, The Comedy Cellar. A year later, he won the Channel Four comedy newcomer's "So You Think You're Funny" award at the Edinburgh Festival, and began developing his comedy routines into a one-man show, "Gurgling for Money", for which he won the prestigious Perrier Comedy Award in 1996, and which he subsequently took to a nationwide tour of the UK. His exposure at the Edinburgh Festival also led to him getting programmed at international stand-up comedy festivals, worldwide.

Subsequently, Moran took to writing and performing for British television. He has starred in the BBC sitcom, How Do You Want Me? (1998), and - more importantly - in 2000, he was commissioned by Channel Four for the sitcom, Black Books (2000). He wrote and starred in three 6-episode series of this comedy. Co-starring popular British stand-up comedian Bill Bailey, who was nominated for the Perrier Award the year Moran won, Black Books (2000) sees Moran play a character close to his stand-up comedy persona: an unsociable misanthrope, reminiscent of the John Cleese sitcom character, "Basil Fawlty", that shares a great love of wine with one of razor-sharp put-downs of all things human. Also, his character Bernard Black's often surreal views on everyday things and on human behavior is close to his stand-up persona's dealing with them.

The same year the first series of "Black Books" aired, Moran took his one-man show, "Ready, Steady, Cough", on a UK tour, followed two years later by Dylan Moran: Monster (2004). This was followed by Monster II in 2004.

In the late 1990's, Moran also moved from doing stand-up to working on a film acting CV. He played opposite Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in Notting Hill (1999), co-starred with Michael Caine in The Actors (2003) and had parts in the Simon Pegg comedy, Shaun of the Dead (2004) and the Michael Winterbottom film, Tristram Shandy (2005).

Moran's live stand-up comedy is unique in that it merges two strands of stand-up that seemed incompatible for a long time: sharp observational humor, and surreal and fantastical language-based absurdity. On the one hand, he has a clear influence from what could be called an American school of stand-up comedy that is heavily observational. On the other hand, Moran's comedy is characterized by a use of language similar to the stand-up comedy of Eddie Izzard and Ross Noble: surreal associative leaps between on the one side observations and on the other fantasies, verbally painting bizarre and absurd worlds, often through a use of stream-of-consciousness narration. His language is often highly poetic, resembling a James Joyce that has had one too many.

Moran is very reluctant to give interviews on his personal life and even on his career, a fact parodied in a staged interview inter-cut with the recording of his live stand-up show, "Monster", on its DVD release.
BornNovember 3, 1971
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Dylan Moran in Conan (2010)
Dylan Moran in Conan (2010)
Dylan Moran in Conan (2010)
Dylan Moran in Conan (2010)
Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig, and Dylan Moran in Black Books (2000)
Bill Bailey and Dylan Moran in Black Books (2000)
Bill Bailey and Dylan Moran in Black Books (2000)
Dylan Moran in Black Books (2000)
Bill Bailey and Dylan Moran in Black Books (2000)
Selina Giles and Dylan Moran in Black Books (2000)
Tamsin Greig and Dylan Moran in Black Books (2000)
Dylan Moran in Black Books (2000)

Known for

Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig, and Dylan Moran in Black Books (2000)
Black Books
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TV Series
  • Bernard Black
Run Fatboy Run (2007)
Run Fatboy Run
6.5
  • Gordon
  • 2007
Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Shaun of the Dead
7.9
  • David
  • 2004
A Film with Me in It (2008)
A Film with Me in It
6.6
  • Pierce
  • 2008

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Actor

  • The Witcher: Blood Origin (2022)
    The Witcher: Blood Origin
  • Stuck (2022)
    Stuck
  • Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy, and Daryl McCormack in Pixie (2020)
    Pixie
  • Baton (2018)
    Baton
  • Metal Heart (2018)
    Metal Heart
  • Uncle (2012)
    Uncle
  • Brendan Gleeson in Calvary (2014)
    Calvary
  • Rubenesque
  • Breakfast Wine (2013)
    Breakfast Wine
  • Little Crackers (2010)
    Little Crackers
  • Richard Dormer in Good Vibrations (2012)
    Good Vibrations
  • Kelly Macdonald, David Tennant, and Alice Eve in The Decoy Bride (2011)
    The Decoy Bride
  • A Film with Me in It (2008)
    A Film with Me in It
  • Run Fatboy Run (2007)
    Run Fatboy Run
  • Tell It to the Fishes (2006)
    Tell It to the Fishes

Writer

  • Stuck (2022)
    Stuck
    • (creator)
  • Dylan Moran in Dylan Moran: Off the Hook (2015)
    Dylan Moran: Off the Hook
  • Little Crackers (2010)
    Little Crackers
  • Dylan Moran in Dylan Moran: Yeah, Yeah (2011)
    Dylan Moran: Yeah, Yeah
  • Aim Low: The Best of Dylan Moran (2010)
    Aim Low: The Best of Dylan Moran
  • Dylan Moran: What It Is (2009)
    Dylan Moran: What It Is
  • Dylan Moran: Like, Totally (2006)
    Dylan Moran: Like, Totally
  • BBC America Comedy Live Presents Dylan Moran
  • Dylan Moran: Monster (2004)
    Dylan Moran: Monster
  • Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig, and Dylan Moran in Black Books (2000)
    Black Books
  • Just for Laughs (1997)
    Just for Laughs
    • (1998)

Art Department

  • Dylan Moran: Like, Totally (2006)
    Dylan Moran: Like, Totally
    • (uncredited)
  • Dylan Moran: Monster (2004)
    Dylan Moran: Monster
    • (uncredited)

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A Film With Me In It
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The Witcher: Blood Origin: Season 1 (Spanish/Spain Subtitled)
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The Witcher: Blood Origin: Season 1 (Spanish/Spain Subtitled)

Personal details

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    • November 3, 1971
    • Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland
    • September 6, 1997 - present (2 children)
  • Other works
    On the extra features in the boxset of Black Books, Dylan recorded a short piece involving Bernard Black replying to a publisher about the rejection of his book. It's called Bernards Letter
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    • 1 Interview
    • 2 Articles
    • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

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  • Trivia
    Dylan was personally recommended to Simon Pegg for the role of "David" in Shaun of the Dead (2004) by producer Nira Park (who also produced Dylan's show, Black Books (2000) and Simon's show, Spaced (1999)). Pegg claimed he wasn't sure Moran was right for the part at first, but he saw Dylan's audition tape and he "nailed it". (Dylan, himself, wasn't intially sure he was right for the part, either, and actually suggested they cast comedian David Walliams, instead).
  • Quotes
    I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just get out of a chair when I'm not expecting it.
    • Tousle-haired, world-weary Irishman with ever-present cigarette and glass of wine.

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