Ricky Dene Gervais born June 25 1961 is an English comedian actor director producer musician and writer Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras both of which he cowrote and codirected with friend and frequent collaborator Stephen Merchant In addition to writing and directing the shows Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras Gervais has also starred in a number of Hollywood films assuming leading roles in Ghost Town and The Invention of Lying He has performed on four sellout standup comedy tours written the bestselling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast in the world as of March 2009 The Ricky Gervais Show He has won a multitude of awards and honours including seven BAFTA Awards five British Comedy Awards two Emmy Awards three Golden Globe Awards and the 2006 Rose dOr as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination In 2007 he was voted the 11th greatest standup comic on Channel 4s 100 Greatest StandUps and again in the updated 2010 list as the 3rd greatest standup comic In 2010 he was named on the TIME 100 list of the worlds most influential people Gervais hosted both the 2010 and 2011 Golden Globe Awards
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