TALK management recommends Brian Blessed as an After Dinner Speaker, Inspirational Speaker, Celebrity Speaker, Awards Host or Compare.

The son of a South Yorkshire coal miner, Brian Blessed was born in 1936 in Mexborough and grew up in the mining village of Goldthorpe. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before beginning a distinguished and varied career, which has encompassed all media. Brian Blessed is now one of this country`s best known and most highly respected actors.

Brian Blessed is known for his larger than life roles on stage and screen. Recent credits include, in Cinema: Leonidas in Oliver Stone’s ALEXANDER, Boss Nass in George Lucas` STAR WARS - THE PHANTOM MENACE, Pendragon in MERLIN - THE LEGEND BEGINS and Clayton in Walt Disney`s TARZAN. For television; the Laughing Cavalier in ADAM`S FAMILY TREE (YTV), Mr Scottley in THE GREATEST STORE IN THE WORLD and Sir Morris in the award winning animated series THE BIG KNIGHTS (BBC). In theatre he played the role of Sir Tunbelly Clumsey in THE RELAPSE at the Royal National Theatre, directed by Trevor Nunn and created the role of Baron Bomburst in the original cast of the hugely successful musical CHITTY, CHITTY, BANG, BANG at the London Palladium.

Brian Blessed has a thriving career as a best-selling author. He has written five books: THE TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN, THE DYNAMITE KID, NOTHING`S IMPOSSIBLE and BLESSED EVEREST, an inspiring abbreviated history of Everest, which includes many magnificent photographs. His fifth book, entitled QUEST TO THE LOST WORLD was published in 1999. Brian loves writing and would write a great deal more if he could find the time!

Since the late sixties Brian Blessed has had a great love of mountaineering and a great desire to stand on `the top of the world`. He has been on three expeditions to Mount Everest. The first to make the film GALAHAD OF EVEREST, a tribute to George Leigh Mallory. In 1993 he returned to Everest, this time to climb the Southern side where he reached a height of 28,000 feet - the highest a man of his age has achieved without oxygen. He returned to the Northern side in 1996 when the climb was filmed by a Channel 4 Television team as part of the ENCOUNTERS series. Brian has also completed a trek to the North Pole resulting in him currently being the oldest man to reach the pole, and an expedition to The Lost World in Venezuela - the subject of his last book.

He has also completed several highly successful UK Tours with his one-man show AN EVENING WITH BRIAN BLESSED.

An entertaining and lively, funny speaker Brian Blessed shares stories about is life as an actor and his various expeditions.



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