James Corden

James Corden

The host of CBS's Late Late Show since March 2015, James Corden was born in Buckinghamshire and, as a child, studied drama at the Jackie Palmer Stage School.

His break came in the ITV comedy-drama Fat Friends, where he met Ruth Jones, with whom he would go on to created the BBC Three hit Gavin and Stacey. However, before that he would appear in Hollyoaks as Wayne and in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys, which opened in 2004. He played Timms in the London, Broadway, Sydney, Wellington and Hong Kong productions, and in the radio and film adaptations.

Gavin & Stacey, which started in 2007, made his name. He won best male newcomer nomination at that year's British Comedy Awards, and the show won best new TV comedy. On the show, he struck up a friendship with co-star Mat Horne. They have since hosted Big Brother's Big Mouth together, as well as various awards ceremonies, and a critically slammed sketch show

But then he reinvented himself as the host of Sky's sports panel show League Of Their Own, and co-creating the BBC Two comedy-thriller The Wrong Mans.

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James Corden returns to the West End

Starring in political drama The Constituent

James Corden is to return to the London stage this summer, 13 years after his success in One Man, Two Guvnors.

The comic, who stood down from his US talk show last year, stars in the political drama The Constituent when the play makes its world premiere at the Old Vic Theatre.

He stars as an ex-serviceman whose life is in freefall when he goes to the constituency surgery of a hard-woking MP, played by Motherland star Anna Maxwell Martin, and challenges her ideals of public office.

With topical overtones, the play is said to ‘deconstruct politics, panic alarms and the conflict between public service and personal safety’.

The play is written by Joe Penhall, who previously penned Sunny Afternoon, and is directed by Old Vic artistic director Matthew Warchus.

Warchus said: ‘In a theatre once mainly renowned for classic revivals, I’m excited to present The Old Vic’s 25th world premiere since my tenure began in 2015 – this urgently topical new play from Joe Penhall set in a local MP’s constituency office.

‘In a landscape of increasing threat, what place is there for empathy? Is an open door policy now dependent on stab vests?’

Corden also previously appeared on stage in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys .

Tickets for The Constituent are on sale now. It runs from June 13 to August 10.

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