Armando Iannucci Bio | Wiki
Armando Iannucci is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, producer, performer, and panelist. He started on BBC Scotland and BBC Radio 4. Alan Partridge, co-created by Armando, went on to feature in a number of his television and radio programs.
He also fronted the satirical Armistice review shows and in 2001 created his most personal work, Shows, for Channel 4. In 2020, he created the comedy series Avenue 5 on HBO.
Armando Iannucci Age
Armando was born on November 28, 1963, in Glasgow, United Kingdom. He is 58 years old.
Armando Iannucci Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in (Approx. 1.72 m).
Armando Iannucci Family
He was born and raised in Glasgow by his father Armando Iannucci, Sr., and his mother. Armando’s father was from Naples, while his mother was born in Glasgow to an Italian family. Before emigrating, his father wrote for an anti-fascist newspaper as a teenager and joined the Italian partisans at 17.
Armando came to Scotland in 1950 and ran a pizza factory in Springburn in Glasgow. He has two brothers and a sister. In his teens, Armando thought seriously about becoming a Roman Catholic priest.
Armando Iannucci Wife
Armando is married to his beautiful wife named Rachel Jones. The couple met when Rachel designed the lighting for Armando’s one-man show at Oxford and married in 1990. Together, they have two sons Emilio and Marcello, and one daughter Carmella. The family resides in Hertfordshire.
Armando Iannucci Education
He attended St Peter’s Primary School and later joined St. Aloysius’ College, Glasgow. Subsequently, Armondo attended the University of Glasgow and University College, Oxford, where he studied English literature.
He was conducting a DPhil about 17th-century religious language, with particular reference to Milton’s Paradise Lost, which he abandoned to follow a comedy career. In July 2012 Iannucci received an honorary Doctorate (DLitt) from the University of Exeter.
Armando Iannucci Veep
Armando created the American HBO political satire television series Veep. It stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and is set in the office of Selina Meyer, a fictional Vice-President of the United States. Veep uses a similar cinéma-vérité filming style to The Thick of It.
Debuting in 2012, the show has aired seven seasons, winning multiple awards including seventeen Primetime Emmy Awards. However, beginning with season five, Iannucci stepped down as showrunner due to “personal reasons”.
Armando Iannucci David Copperfield
His third feature film was an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield entitled The Personal History of David Copperfield. It was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 24 January 2020 and received critical acclaim.
Armando Iannucci OBE
Armando was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting. Alastair Campbell‘s response to his appointment was “Three little letters can have more impact than you realize”, to which Armando replied, via Twitter, “WMD”, a reference to Campbell’s role in preparing the “September Dossier” prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Armando Iannucci The Thick Of It
Moving back to the BBC in 2005, Armando created the political sitcom The Thick of It and the spoof documentary Time Trumpet in 2006. Winning funding from the UK Film Council, in 2009 he directed a critically acclaimed feature film, In the Loop, featuring characters from The Thick of It.
As a result of these works, Armando has been described by The Daily Telegraph as “the hardman of political satire”. Other works during this period include operetta libretto, Skin Deep, and his radio series Charm Offensive.
Armando Iannucci Books
-Hear Me Out: All My Music (2017)
-I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan by Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons, Armando Iannucci, and Steve Coogan (2011)
-The Thick of It: The Missing DoSAC Files (2010)
-The Audacity of Hype: Bewilderment, Sleaze and Other Tales of the 21st Century (2009)
-The Thick of It: The Scripts by Jesse Armstrong, Armando Iannucci, and Simon Blackwell (2007)
-lan Partridge: Every Ruddy Word All the Scripts: From Radio to TV. And Back by Steve Coogan, Peter Baynham, Armando, Patrick Marber (2003)
-Facts and Fancies (1997)
Armando Iannucci Radio
Starting on BBC Scotland and BBC Radio 4, Armando’s early work with Chris Morris on the radio series On the Hour transferred to television as The Day Today. A character from this series, Alan Partridge, co-created by him, went on to feature in a number of Armando’s television and radio programs, including Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge and I’m Alan Partridge. He also fronted the satirical Armistice review shows and in 2001 created his most personal work, The Armando Iannucci Shows, for Channel 4.
Armando Iannucci Time Trumpet
In mid-2006, Armando’s spoof documentary series Time Trumpet was shown on BBC 2. The series looked back on past events through highly edited clips and “celebrity” interviews, looking back on the present and near future from the year 2031.
One episode, featuring fictional terrorist attacks on London and the assassination of Tony Blair, was postponed and edited in August 2006 amid the terrorism scares in British airports at that time. Jane Thynne, writing in The Independent, accused the BBC of lacking backbone.
Armando Iannucci Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Armando’s estimated net worth is $8 million.
Who Is Armando Iannucci married To
Armando is married to his beautiful wife named Rachel Jones. The couple met when Rachel designed the lighting for Armando’s one-man show at Oxford and married in 1990. Together, they have three children Emilio, Marcello, and Carmella.