Name |
Robert Webb |
Height |
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Naionality |
English |
Date of Birth |
29-September-1972 |
Place of Birth |
Boston, Lincolnshire, England |
Famous for |
Acting |
Robert Patrick Webb is an English comedian, actor and writer, and one half of the double act Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell.
Webb was born in Boston, Lincolnshire and grew up in the village of Woodhall Spa. Webb's parents divorced when he was four and he lived with his mother. He has said that as a child he was "hugely spoilt". He has two older brothers: one became a bus fitter, and the other is a potato wholesaler.
Webb was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Horncastle. Having grown up watching The Young Ones and Blackadder, he became interested in drama and poetry while in school and began writing parodies. While Webb was in the lower sixth form preparing for his A-levels, his mother died of breast cancer, and he moved in with his father and re-sat his A-levels. He went to Robinson College, Cambridge at the age of 20 where he studied English and became vice-president of the Footlights. He met David Mitchell at an audition for a Footlights production of Cinderella in 1993.