Julian Barratt Biography
Julian Barrat ( Julian Barratt Pettifer ) is an English comedian, actor, musician, and music producer. He is well known for his appearances in The Mighty Boosh, Mindhorn and Nathan Barley. The winner of BBC New Comedy Awards in 1995 Barrat currently stars in Channel 4 black-humor sitcom Flowers. He is also known as a musician and music producer.
Julian Barratt Age
Barrat was born on 4th of May 1968, in Leeds, England, the United Kingdom. He is 51 years old as of 2019.
Julian Barratt Young | Family
His was ggiven the name Barratt adopted as his surname to distinguish himself from Julian Pettifer, a British TV journalist. He was raised up in his hometown Leeds along with his family. There is no much information about his parents and siblings. He holds a British nationality and regarding his ethnicity, he is of Caucasian ethnicity.
Julian Barratt Married | Wife
Barrat is not yet married, however, he is in a relationship with his longtime girlfriend Julia Davies from past decades. The pair are parents to their twin children born on 25 June 2007. His pair is long term partner is a comedian and actress. The pair as well together performed in many successful projects. In the year 2010, they worked in a production of Chekhov’s The Bear for Sky Arts 2.
Julian Barratt Education
Barratt was enrolled and latter graduated from the University of Reading. There is no much information about his educational background.
Julian Barratt Career
Barratt began his career featured as the character Howard Moon opposite Noel Fielding’s Vince Noir in the comedy series The Mighty Boosh. Barratt later composed all of the music for the series, which includes a variety of genres such as rap, heavy metal, and psychedelic rock.
He as well accomplished musician, and played guitar for Little Chief during their European tour. At a young age, he took an interest in “jazz fusion”. At 17, he failed in an attempt to become a jazz guitarist. He was in a band called Groove Solution in 1990s with Dave Westlake, and has also played bass with Chris Corner in IAMX.
Barratt later got featured in dramas, often alongside his Mighty Boosh partner Noel Fielding. He as well got featued as Dan Ashcroft, a frustrated magazine writer, in the Channel 4 media satire Nathan Barley, and appeared in the surrealistic black comedy series Asylum alongside Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson (who wrote and starred in Spaced).
Featured as Brian Topp in Spaced was written for him, He later went to Mark Heap. He was then featured as Jackson, a musician, in How Not to Live Your Life. He starred in the “Freelance Scientist” commercial for Metz alcopop. He later got featured as The Padre in the spoof horror series Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
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He also starred in (and was a writer for) the 1998 sketch show Unnatural Acts, alongside Fielding. He had also appeared in TV series The Pod with friend Tim Hope, about a fictional techno band called The Pod. The show was unusual as everything was animated except for the heads of Barratt and Hope. He also appeared in the 2001 film Lucky Break.
He later made his directing début for Warp Films with theatre director Dan Jemmett. Curtains is set in a Norfolk seaside town. It is a dark comedy about a Punch and Judy man. He then directed his first music video, for the song “All of Me” by Tanlines in 2012.
He later voiced on many adverts, such as More Th>n Car, House and Pet insurance, and the Directgov advert. He appeared in the music video for Mint Royale’s “Blue Song”, alongside Noel Fielding, Nick Frost, and Michael Smiley. In 2010, he as well took part in Sky Comedy’s Little Crackers.
He then wrote and directed a 15-minute film based on his teen band, Satan’s Hoof. On 12 March 2011, he made a brief appearance as Heathcliff in Noel Fielding’s “Wuthering Heights” dance on the Let’s Dance for Comic Relief finale. He as well narrated the 2011 documentary Seven Dwarves.
Barratt later appeared in the miniseries Treasure Island on Sky1, as well as narrating the BBC Two documentary The Tube in 2012. He later ot featured as a teacher in the BBC drama White Heat. In 2013, he latter got featured in the fifth series of Being Human, playing a werewolf named Larry Chrysler.
He as well narrated the BBC Two documentaries The Route Masters: Running London’s Roads and The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway. In April 2014, he latercollaborated with Julia Davis and Joe Frank on Frank’s radio show “Isolation,” which was broadcast as part of KCRW’s UnFiction.
He starred as Maurice Flowers, a children’s author battling depression, in the Channel 4 series, “Flowers”, a 6 part dark comedy mini series which follows the eccentric and dysfunctional members of the Flowers family. He later reprises the role for the second series in 2018. He as well plays the title character in the film Mindhorn, which he co-wrote with Simon Farnaby. It was released through Netflix on 12 May 2017.
In 2011 he was featured as the Mayor in a production of Nikolai Gogol’s classic comedy The Government Inspector at the Young Vic Theatre. In 2012 he returned to the stage in Lucy Kirkwood’s play NSFW at the Royal Court.
Julian Barratt Net Worth
Barrat’s estimated net worth is under review but is believed to be around $1 million. As a famous actor and comedian he is earning handsome money from his work in both movies and TV series. He took got featured in the top 10 earning comedians list in 2016. His average salary as an actor is around $51,000 a year.
Besides being the actor has also published two books The Mighty Book of Boosh in Sep 2008 and Australian Country Style Country Garden which is priced $45 for Paperback on Amazon.
Julian Barratt Movies
- 2017 Mindhorn
- 2015 Aaaaaaaah!
- 2014 ABCs of Death 2
- 2013 The Harry Hill Movie
- 2013 A Field in England
- 2009 Bunny and the Bull
- 2008 Curtains
- 2003 How to Tell when a Relationship is Over
- 2003 The Reckoning
- 2003 The Principles of Lust
- 2002 Surrealisimo: The Trial of Salvador Dalí
- 2001 Lucky Break
- 2000 Sweet
Julian Barratt Tv Shows
- 2019 Killing Eve
- 2019 Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart
- 2018 Sally4Ever
- 2016–2018 Flowers
- 2015 Prison Night
- 2013 NTSF:SD:SUV::
- 2012 White Heat
- 2012 Treasure Island
- 2012 Being Human
- 2010 Little Crackers
- 2010 Comedy Shorts
- 2009 How Not to Live Your Life
- 2008–2009 Boosh Live
- 2006 The Mighty Boosh Live
- 2005 Nathan Barley
- 2004 Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
- 2004 AD/BC: A Rock Opera
- 2004–2007 The Mighty Boosh
- 2001 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala
- 2000 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala
- 1998 Unnatural Acts
- 1997 The Pod
- 1996 Asylum
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