About Harry Enfield
Henry Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961) is an English comedy actor and writer known in particular for his television work. His shows include Harry Enfield's Television Programme, Harry Enfield & Chums and Harry & Paul, across which he created and portrayed characters such as Kevin the Teenager, Loadsamoney, Smashie and Nicey, The Scousers, Tim Nice-But-Dim and Mr "You Don't Want to Do It Like That". == Early life and education == Enfield was born on 30 May 1961, in Horsham, Sussex, and is the eldest of four children (and only son) of English television, radio and newspaper journalist and presenter Edward Enfield and his wife, Deirdre Jenkins. The Enfield family are descendants of the nineteenth-century philanthropist Edward Enfield. He spent his childhood living in Billingshurst, West Sussex. Enfield was privately educated at the Arundale School in Pulborough, Dorset House School, Worth School, and Collyer's Sixth Form College, shortly after it became a comprehensive school. He studied politics at the University of York, where he was a member of Derwent College, York. He squatted in Hackney and worked as a milkman for a while. == Career == Enfield started his comedy career after being recruited at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as a writer for 3 episodes of the Radio 4 comedy programme Week Ending (1982-1983). In 1985, he took on a voice actor role alongside Chris Barrie, Rory Bremner, Steve Coogan, Hugh Dennis, and Ade Edmondson in the British satirical television comedy puppet show, Spitting Image (1985–1989, 1996).
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