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Reece Shearsmith
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Claire Nightingale
PBJ Management
5 Soho Square
London
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Products
DVD (2007):
TLC
Book (2007):
League Of Gentlemen's Book Of Precious Things
A collection of prose, poetry, sketches, lyrics and scripts

Reece Shearsmith

Date Of Birth: 27/08/1969

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Biography

Hull-born Reece Shearsmith is a quarter of The League Of Gentlemen alongside Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Jeremy Dyson (who writes, but does not perform)

They net at Bretton Hall drama school in their late teens, and began performing a sketch show at London’s Cockpit Theatre in 1995, soon afterwards landing a residency at the Canal Café pub theatre, which compelled them to create new material at a fast pace.

In 1997 they won the Perrier, and their subsequent radio series On the Town with The League of Gentlemen, set in the fictional town of Spent, won a Sony Award.

In 1999 the League moved to television – and Royston Vasey – with subsequent series in 2000 (including a typically sinister Christnmas special) and 2002; plus a feature-length film, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, in 2005.

On stage, they toured large regional theatres in 2000, had a six-week run at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in spring 2003, and toured a pantomime-themed show The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You in 2005.

Outside of the League, Shearsmith played the insane villain Tony in the Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer comedy Catterick; Robot-Wars obsessed TA soldier Dexter in Spaced; and neurotic Dr Flynn in BBC Two hospital sitcom TLC.

On the West End, he appeared in Art in 2003, alongside his League Of Gentlemen costars, in As You Like It at the Wyndhams in 2005, and in The Producers as Leo Bloom in 2006.

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Comments

Reece is a brilliant actor and comic performer. The League are excellent live, and Psychoville was a brilliant series and a tv highlight of the year.

Shell, October 2009


Just found out Reece is from Hull-this city is blumin awesome! Would like to wish him well and ask that he brings some of his humour back home soon!

Julie Anne Goodman, October 2008




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Where can I see Reece Shearsmith next?

Where can I see Reece Shearsmith next?

Recommended
18:30 - Friday 23rd Apr, '10
Venue: Phoenix Cinema
Prices: £15 (£13 concs)
Comics: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton
Info: Screening of Hitchcock's Rope, followed by the Psychoville episode inspired by it, plus Q&A with Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith
Show starts: 18:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)