Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

130

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-08-29 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK

Also Known As

Sir Lenworth George Henry CBE
Lenworth George Henry
連尼·亨利

Lenny Henry

Biography

Sir Lenworth George Henry CBE, known as Lenny Henry, is an English stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer and television presenter

Known For

8.0%

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

May 31, 2004

7.3%

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Sep 1, 2022

7.5%

Doctor Who

Mar 26, 2005

7.9%

The Sandman

Aug 5, 2022

6.7%

Penelope

Mar 1, 2006

6.5%

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

Mar 12, 2012

7.9%

Broadchurch

Mar 4, 2013

6.7%

The Witcher: Blood Origin

Dec 25, 2022

7.6%

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Dec 18, 2024

6.4%

MirrorMask

Jan 25, 2005

7.2%

The Graham Norton Show

Feb 22, 2007

7.9%

The Young Ones

Nov 9, 1982

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Acting

—		Work Experience as Terence
—		The Magic Faraway Tree
—		Tommy Cooper at the BBC as Presenter

2025		Grand Prix of Europe as Erwin (voice)
2025		Missing You as Clint Donovan

2024		Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl as Mr. Convenience (voice)
2024		Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry as Self - Host
2024		Art Matters as Self
2024		Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money as Self

2023

An Audience with Kylie as Self

2022		The Witcher: Blood Origin as Chief Sage Balor
2022		The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Sadoc Burrows
2022		The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Global Fan Screening as Sadoc Burrows
2022		The Sandman as Martin Tenbones (voice)
2022		Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony as Self
2022		Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain as Presenter
2022		My Name Is Leon as Mr. Johnson

2021		Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas as Self
2021		Parkinson at 50 as Self (archive footage)
2021		Zog and the Flying Doctors as Narrator (voice)

2020		Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure... as Self
2020		Back to the… as Self
2020		Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History as Self - Presenter
2020		Staged as Len
2020		The Big Night In as Self - Presenter

2019		Trust Morecambe & Wise as Self - Presenter
2019		Lenny Henry's Race Through Comedy as Presenter
2019		Happy Birthday OU: 50 Years of the Open University as Himself - Presenter

2018		Zog as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2018		The Long Song as Godfrey

2017

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day as Self - Presenter

2016		John Bishop: In Conversation with... as Self
2016		Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously as Self
2016		Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood as Self
2016		Our Queen at Ninety as Self

2015

Danny & the Human Zoo as Samson

2014		A Life on Screen as Himself
2014		Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule as Self
2014		W1A as Self

2013		Broadchurch as Ed Burnett
2013		The Last Leg as Self

2012		The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012 as Self - Presenter
2012		The Syndicate as Godfrey Watson
2012		The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! as Peg Leg Hastings (voice)
2012		National Theatre Live: The Comedy of Errors as Antipholus of Syracuse

2011		Red Nose Day: 25 Monster Years as Self
2011		Perspectives
2011		Famous, Rich And In The Slums with Comic Relief as Himself
2011		The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse
2011		The Magicians as Self

2010		Tinga Tinga Tales as Elephant (voice)
2010		Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga

2009

Now That’s What I Call Comedy as Himself

2008		Gaybo Laughs Back as Self
2008		Big & Small
2008		Q&A as Self - Panellist
2008		Lenry Henry.TV

2007		A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007		Lenny's Britain as Himself - Presenter
2007		The Graham Norton Show as Self

2006		It Started with Swap Shop as Self
2006		The One Show as Self
2006		The One Show as Self - Guest
2006		Great British Menu as Self - Guest Judge
2006		Penelope as Krull

2005		Lenny Henry Live - So Much Things To Say
2005		Harry & Paul
2005		The Comic Strip - A Retrospective as Self
2005		Doctor Who as Daniel Barton
2005		MirrorMask as Cops 1-4

2004		Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
2004		Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Shrunken Head (voice)
2004		The Lenny Henry Show

2003		Lying To Michael Jackson as Michael Jackson
2003		Little Robots as Sporty (voice)

2002		The Best of French & Saunders as Various
2002		V Graham Norton as Self

2000		Lenny Henry in Pieces
2000		The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

1999		Rude For A Reason: Live from Brixton Academy as Himself
1999		Hope and Glory as Ian George

1998		Lenny Goes to Town
1998		Windrush as Himself
1998		Parkinson as Self

1997

The Story of Bean as himself

1996

Famous Fred as Fred (voice)

1994

White Goods as Charlie Collins

1993		Shooting Stars as Self
1993		Chef as Gareth Blackstock

1992		In Dreams as Lenny/Michael Jackson/Prince
1992		Black and White in Colour as Himself

1991		Bernard and the Genie as Josephus the Genie
1991		Alive and Kicking as Stevie 'Smudger' Smith
1991		True Identity as Miles Pope
1991		Lenny Go Home as Self

1990		Oxford as Steve Wild
1990		South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1 as Warder

1989		Lenny Live and Unleashed as Himself & various characters
1989		Saturday Night Clive
1989		The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
1989		Just Like That! as Self

1988		This Morning as Self
1988		The Suicide Club as Cam
1988		Comic Relief
1988		Comic Relief as Self - Presenter

1987		The Lenny Henry Show
1987		Going Live! as Self
1987		French & Saunders as Lt. Chris Clark
1987		French & Saunders as Richard
1987		Coast to Coast as Ritchie Lee
1987		The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball as Self