fifteen things you didn't know about Rowan Atkinson welcome to a lox calm the place where future billionaires come to get inspired hello dear any lectures and welcome back to our channel living in the century of entertainment we thought you'd be delighted if we chose someone whose means of entertaining hit the highest peaks does the name mr. bean ring a bell we bet it does but do you know his real name born on January 6 1955 Rowan Atkinson is an English actor comedian and screenwriter best known for two things his use of physical comedy in his mr. bean persona and keeping his private life as private as possible he's proved his skills both with using words or without them he remarkably played authority roles especially priests or vicars and even spoke absurd lines with completely deadpan deliveries anyways it's his talent for visual comedy that led to Atkinson being called the quote man with the rubber face if you are new here welcome be sure to subscribe and follow us on instagram at a Lux but let's dig in shall we here are 15 things you didn't know about Rowan Atkinson number one the name was originally mr.
white mr. Bean's name was not decided upon until after the production of the first program the struggle was real as he initially had to choose between several vegetable-based names they went from mr. white and mr.
cauliflower before finally settling on mr. bean which is so very English the irony though is that Atkinson himself pointed out that mr. bean was inspired by a French character created by the comedian and director Jacques Tati just like in the old silent films the series completely depends on physical comedy making it easier to understand for people who don't speak English multiculturalism had its finest number two from the College of Queen to winning the Queen's recognition even if he plays a funny character Rowan Atkinson is very educated man he is a graduate from two universities the Kassel university and the queen's college of oxford university writing his thesis on self turning control systems fast forward 20 something years into the future our comedian was awarded the CBE or commander of the Order of the British Empire honor by the Queen herself Atkinson had already had several encounters with a fictional version of queen elizabeth ii hallways by accident and even once hitting her was a tray but when meeting the real queen he chose less eventful circumstances and left after the ceremony without talking to the press number three he saved his family from almost certain death when taking a family vacation back in 2001 and enjoying the sights of Kenya from above in a private plane Rowan Atkinson made an act of extreme bravery noticing the pilot had closed his eyes and slumped back in his seat while the plane was constantly losing height he decided to take control of the aircraft and tried to gain back some altitude even if he had never flown a plane before luckily the pilot regained consciousness a few minutes after and managed to safely land the plane at the Wilson Airport in Nairobi nobody was hurt during the process but can you imagine the panic all his family must have gone through number 4 Rowan Atkinson started his career on the radio in 1979 Rowan Atkinson started his career on BBC Radio 3 he starred in a series of comedy shows called the Atkinson people written by Atkins and himself in collaboration with Richard Curtis the series consisted of fictional interviews with great men all made in a satirical way the interviewed men in the show were all played by a concern making the series even funnier what this teaches us is that there's no wrong place to start your career and that you should never stop pursuing your dreams we're pretty sure Atkinson couldn't have imagined the popularity he'd gained when he wrote those silly interviews for BBC Radio number 5 he's worth a whopping 130 million dollars during his prolific acting career Atkinson earned a significant amount of money rounding up to a current net worth of about 130 million dollars akun since fortune proves how successful an actor he is and reaffirms mr.
Bean's popularity considering he doesn't have a very long list of filmography mr. bean and Johnny English are his highest earning works with a total gross income of 618 million dollars at the box office which is impressive considering that mr. bean series only had 15 episodes in recent years he received 16 million dollars from his company and MEC and some extra cash from selling his McLaren number 6 speaking of that McLaren he has an incredible car collection having as much money in the bank as he does it's only natural to develop a taste for the finer things in life Rowan Atkinson's guilty pleasure expensive cars his fondness for cars originated in his childhood when young Atkinson used to drive around his father's tractor and that is why he got a class 1 license to drive a lorry in the mean time he published his preferences which led him to owning cars over the years like the McLaren f1 Aston Martin v8 Vantage Zagato Acura NSX aston martin db10 one of the only 22 ever made Bentley Birkin Mulsanne number 7 he's not only a collector but Eraser Atkinson not only loves cars but also racing them though he plays clumsy characters such as mr.
bean and Johnny English in the movies Atkinson himself is an avid car lover and races quite a lot he participated in a racing event put on by the Aston Martin owners Club at the Croft racing circuit driving his Aston Martin v8 zagato which he crashed but was not hurt though considered a collector he stated that I'm not a collector I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate Howard takeaway from that is that he likes to have fun and put his cars to work while pumping some adrenaline into his own system number 8 he crashed his McLaren f1 twice and then sold it for twelve point two million dollars as mentioned earlier Atkinson owns an impressive car collection but he doesn't keep it hidden in some basement on the contrary two of the least fortunate events with his we're his McLaren f1 the actor being involved in two accidents the second one in 2011 left the actor with a dislocated shoulder and one point four million dollars in his pockets paid by the insurance company Rowan hydroplaned into a tree and it was the first case in British history where the insurance company billed that much money for a car accident after getting the McLaren fixed up like new Atkinson went to sell it for no less than twelve point two million dollars good job mr. bean number nine his divorce cost him a 30 million dollar house a Rowan Atkinson was married for 24 years - the makeup artist Sinatra sands tree whom he has two children with they found for divorce in 2015 after splitting up in 2014 when the actor started dating an actress half his age during the time of the split Rowan and his wife were building a 15 million dollar house in Oxfordshire after the divorce Sinatra kept the 30 million dollar home in London while Rowan moved to a 5. 5 million dollar cottage in the capital not to mention he had to pay almost 7 million dollars for all lawyer fees quite a costly divorce but nothing stands in the way of love they say number 10 he was on the guest list of Prince William's wedding it seems like Rowan Atkinson made it to the 1,900 people list to have attended Prince William's wedding to Kate Middleton as a royal family friend he attended the wedding with his ex-wife Sinatra Sastry and both of them were also guests at Prince Charles and Camilla sweating the Royal House surely knows how to take a laugh Rowan Atkinson is said to also be on the list for Prince Harry's wedding that he will most likely attend together with his new 33 year old wife do you want to know more about Prince Harry and his life we've got you covered check out our 15 things you didn't know about Prince Harry video and let us know what you think about it number 11 his daughter is a burlesque dancer not many facts are known about Rowan Atkinson's life but did you know that his daughter Lily age 23 is a burlesque dancer and singer she is quite a hit was a successful string of performances in London back in 2016 and more than 45,000 followers on social media things between her and her father haven't been going well though following her parents split Lily decided to renounce Rowan's name and pick up her mother's saying she'll no longer be known as Lily Atkinson but as Lily sans tree she also left social media and disappeared without a trace from the public eye at the end of 2017 number 12 he suffers from a stammer not many people know this about Atkinson but he has a speaking impediment being hard for him to say words that start with the letter B asked about this problem the actor just said it's something that comes and goes that the stammering disappears when he plays somebody other than himself and this explains his career choices in order to get over this issue he uses over articulation a technique to overcome problematic consonants for the B sounds it's good and inspiring to know that Atkinson turns his stutter problem into a comic device by over articulating the sound of B it's pretty inspiring to take something like that and work it to your advantage number 13 he's had quite a few awards nominations but fewer Awards despite his contribution to the world of comedy and film both as an actor and as a writer Rowan Atkinson didn't receive many important awards between 1994 and 2004 he had 18 nominations most of which at BAFTA TV awards and TV prize but only won seven titles throughout his entire career he won the BAFTA Award for Best light entertainment performance in 1981 and in 1990 and a cable ace award for writing in 1993 this is not bad though when you come to think that mr.
bean was sold and 245 territories worldwide and that the trouble was mr. bean episode was viewed by as many as 18 point 7 4 million people no BAFTA award can beat that popularity number 14 Atkinson changed his appearance for his girlfriend Atkinson's character in Blackadder a series of four BBC one pseudo historical British sitcoms did not sport a beard in the third season as he did in the first - rumor has it it was due to his then-girlfriend who didn't like his fluffy face the show was soon cancelled and the reason behind it was speculated to be the war between script writers and the cast Atkinson Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie being actors and writers started questioning the script by Curtis and Elton out of the four Blackadder seasons Atkinson was the script writer for only the first season engineer actor writer this guy does it all number 15 Atkinson is an advocate of human rights Rowan Atkinson is well known for his human rights activism sparking controversy through constantly criticizing religious and political views in 2005 Atkinson led a group of actors and writers including Stephen Fry and Ian McEwan opposing the racial and religious hatred Bill Rowan is critical about laws that could restrict freedom of speech and always stands against them besides opposing the racial and religious hatred bill he supported the freedom of speech for homosexuals we can only learn from this man and thank you for watching d-ring Luxor's there's no doubt that mr.
