Who: Before And After #1464 / Nu-Who #523
Name: Sir Lenny Henry, CBE [1958 - ]
Year(s): 2020
Stories: Spyfall: Part One ? Spyfall: Part Two
Character(s): Daniel Barton
Note(s):
- Appeared as a spoof version of the Seventh Doctor in 1985 sketch on 'The Lenny Henry Show. This sketch predated the departure of Colin Baker in 1986, and saw him play the newly regenerated "Seventh Doctor," making him the first black actor to portray the Doctor
- In a 2023 'Comic Relief Red Nose Day' sketch, he played a fictional version of himself who regenerated into the Fourteenth Doctor
Before Who:
Films: The Suicide Club (1987), True Identity (1991), Bernard and the Genie (1991), In Dreams (1992), Prince Cinders [voice only] (1993), White Goods (1994), The Man (1999), The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999), French & Saunders Live (2000), Goodbye, Mr Steadman (2001),
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* (2004),
Mirrormask* (2005), Penelope (2006), Berry's Way (2006), National Theatre Live: The Comedy of Errors (2012) / The Pirates! Band of Misfits [voice only] (2012), Rudy's Rare Records (2014), Danny and the Human Zoo (2015)
Television: New Faces [5 episodes as a contestant (1975)] / The Summer Show (1975) / The Fosters [27 episodes as Sonny Foster (1976?1977)] /
Tiswas* [as a presenter (1978?1981)] / Three of a Kind [17 episodes, various characters (1981?1983)] / OTT [13 episodes as a presenter (1982)] /
The Young Ones: Summer Holiday* (1984) / The Lenny Henry Show [14 episodes, various characters (1984?1988)] / Happy Families: Cassie (1985) / Lenny Henry Tonite [6 episodes, Various Characters (1986)] / Screen Two: Coast To Coast (1987) / Spitting Image - The Ronnie and Nancy Show [voice only] (1987) / The Lenny Henry Show [12 episodes as Delbert Wilkins (1987?1988)] / French and Saunders [4 episodes, various characters (1988?1996)] / The Comic Strip Presents: South Atlantic Raiders (1990) / The Comic Strip Presents: Oxford (1990) / Screen One: Alive And Kicking (1991) / Chef! [20 episodes as Gareth (1993?1996)] / Lenny Goes to Town [6 episodes, Various Characters (1998) / Hope & Glory [16 episodes as Ian George (1999?2000)] / Comic Relief [17 episodes as presenter (1999-2022 )]/ Little Robots [3 episodes as the voice of Sporty (2003)] / War at the Door [12 episodes as the Narrator (2005)] / Big and Small [31 episodes as Big and Small (2008?2011)] / 'Conversations with My Wife' (2010) / Tinga Tinga Tales [35 episodes as the voice of Elephant (2011?2012)] / The Syndicate [6 episodes as Godfrey Watson (2015)] / Broadchurch [8 episodes as Ed Burnett (2017)] / W1A [2 episodes as Lenny Henry (2017?2024)] / The Long Song (2018) / Soon Gone - A Windrush Chronicle: Cyrus 2011 (2019)
:
Films: My Name Is Leon (2022)
Television: Children In Need (2020) / The Sandman [2 episodes as the voice of Martin Tenbones (2022)] /
The Lord of the Rings - The Rings of Power* [6 episodes as Sadoc Burrows (2022)] / The Witcher - Blood Origin [4 episodes as Balor (2022)] / Three Little Birds [3 episodes as Remuel Drake (2023)]