Guy Jenkin
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Guy Jenkin (born 27 April 1955) is a British film director and comedy writer who is best known for working together with Andy Hamilton on sitcoms and comedies such as Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1998), Outnumbered (2007–2014), and Ballot Monkeys (2015).
Early life
He attended Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]
Career
He wrote the 2002 satirical comedy Jeffrey Archer: The Truth, with Damian Lewis portraying Jeffrey Archer, and the 2003 drama film The Sleeping Dictionary, starring Jessica Alba.[2][3]
Jenkin also contributed to the popular 2006–2007 BBC series Life on Mars, writing the sixth episode of the second series about heroin in 1973 and the Asian community.[4] The episode explores racism at the time.
In 2024, he and Hamilton created a stage show featuring original cast members of Drop the Dead Donkey which toured theatres in the UK.[5] He also wrote and is directing a film about the Tudors called Fools.[6]
Personal life
Jenkin is married to Bernadette Davis, the creator and writer of Some Girls.[7] He lives in Balham in south London.
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External links
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- English comedy writers
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- People from Balham
- Comedians from the London Borough of Wandsworth