Will Kevin Spacey Resurrect His Hollywood Career or Is a Low-Budget "Millennium Phase" More Likely?ĭescribed by Demetriou himself as “birth to death in songs and sketches” and also Netflix’s “first British sketch special slash show,” the hour-long special takes audiences through a series of sketches incorporating childhood, adulthood and beyond, often accompanied by song. He’s also due to appear in Greta Gerwig’s all-star hotly-anticipated Barbie, but before that he’s taking his own brand of silly and strange comedy to the next level with the Netflix special A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou. where the show airs on HBO - he’s probably more recognizable for a growing number of short but often scene-stealing TV and film appearances, including in Fleabag (the guy with big teeth in season 1), Paddington 2 (one of the bear’s fellow prison inmates known as The Professor), The Great (playing Doctor Chekhov) and Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga (camp artistic director Kevin Swain). In the U.K., he’s arguably best known as the creator and star of Channel 4 sitcom Stath Lets Flats, in which his inept, awkward, rude and delusional Greek-Cypriot rental agent Stath Charalambos - considered one of the best comic creations since Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge - has won him countless fans inside the industry and out (in 2020 he won three BAFTA TV awards). He played the role of Walter Mildmay, English Chancellor of the Exchequer.Jamie Demetriou has been on a comedic rise for several years. Director Josie Rourke dedicated Mary Queen of Scots to Beckett's memory. Death īeckett died at his home in South Norwood, London, on 10 April 2018, aged 35, in what was ruled by the coroner to be suicide by hanging it was noted that, at the time of his death, Beckett had been suffering from depression for almost a year.
He also played Michael in the BBC Radio 4 drama Tracks. He played many theatre roles, including Higgins in Pygmalion in 2017, and several characters, including Fidel Castro, in the 2013 musical hybrid production of the Neon Neon album Praxis Makes Perfect. He was best known for his role in the BBC TV comedy series Twenty Twelve and its follow-up W1A. Peter Alexander Beckett (30 June 1982 – 10 April 2018) was a British actor.
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