Tim Key

Tim Key is a comedian, poet, actor, and writer who co-wrote and stars in the new comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island, which is in select theaters from March 28 and everywhere from April 18. Key won the Perrier Award in 2009 and has since gone on to write and perform eight solo shows, including the smash hit, Mulberry. On screen, he is best known as Sidekick Simon in This Time with Alan Partridge, as well as The Double, Peep Show and The End of the F***ing World. Most recently, he was seen opposite Robert Pattinson in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 and played Commissioner Harrold Scott alongside Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan in See How They Run. His radio series Late Night Poetry with Tim Key has just been commissioned for a sixth season and Key also has written several successful poetry anthologies, including Chapters, He Used Thought as a Wife and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.