Lenny Henry

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Aug 29, 1958 (66 years old)

Lenny Henry

Known For

The Magic Faraway Tree
Movie 2025

The Magic Faraway Tree

Soon after the Thompson family’s arrival in the countryside, the three children – Beth, Joe, and Fran – discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents, including Moonface, Silky, Dame Washalot, and Saucepan Man. At the top of the tree, they are transported to spectacular and fantastical lands and, through the joys and challenges of their adventures, the Thompsons learn to reconnect and value each other for the first time in years.

Grand Prix of Europe
Movie 2025

Grand Prix of Europe

Edda, a young mouse and the daughter of fairground operator Erwin, dreams of becoming a race car driver. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the European Grand Prix, Edda gets the opportunity to meet her idol, racing star Ed, and to help her father save his failing business. But to do so, she'll have to get behind the wheel herself.

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
1h 19m
Movie 2024

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!

Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
TV Show 2024

Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry

The award-winning comedian, actor and writer meets four of the country’s most iconic comedians to explore just how to make comedy gold. Each episode sees Lenny carve up the career and work of his funny guest, taking a deep dive to discover how they – and other comedy icons – made their mark.

Art Matters
1h 23m
Movie 2024

Art Matters

Join Melvyn Bragg for an insightful journey into why “Art Matters,” With a career spanning over 60 years, Bragg passionately advocates for the importance of the arts as he reflects on his early experiences and engages with influential figures from the artistic world.

Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money
2h 59m
Movie 2024

Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money

Red Nose Day is back, live from Media City UK, Salford. It’s the UK’s biggest night of comedy and entertainment, so make sure you don’t miss it! The epic three-hour fundraising favourite will entertain the nation with hilarious sketches, live performances, big surprises and stunning music while raising much-needed cash for good causes at home and across the world. Joining Sir Lenny Henry (for one last time live in the Comic Relief studio) will be Romesh Ranganathan, Maya Jama, David Tennant, Davina McCall, Joel Dommett, Rosie Ramsey and Paddy McGuinness. Unmissable moments will include a very special trailer for The Traitors, the Movie, with an iconic cast. It's a star-studded sketch that promises to deliver all your favourite Traitor moments from series two of the smash hit reality show.

An Audience with Kylie
0h 57m
Movie 2023

An Audience with Kylie

Performing a selection of her greatest hits plus songs from her latest album ‘Tension’. There will also be some surprise collaborations and Kylie will take questions from the celebrity audience of friends, personal heroes, actors, musicians, artists, sportsmen and women.

The Witcher: Blood Origin
TV Show 2022

The Witcher: Blood Origin

More than a thousand years before the world of The Witcher, seven outcasts in the elven world unite in a blood quest against an unstoppable power.

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony
2h 30m
Movie 2022

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, held at the Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr.

Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain
TV Show 2022

Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain

Lenny Henry celebrates British-Caribbean life with stories from a host of famous faces. How pioneers laid the foundations for an explosion of culture and inspired a new generation.

Biography

Sir Lenworth George Henry CBE, known as Lenny Henry, is an English stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer and television presenter

Acting

2025
The Magic Faraway Tree
2025
Grand Prix of Europe
2024
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
2024
Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry
2024
Art Matters
2024
Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money
2023
An Audience with Kylie
2022
The Witcher: Blood Origin
2022
Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony
2022
Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain
2022
My Name Is Leon
2021
Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2021
Parkinson at 50
2021
Zog and the Flying Doctors
2020
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
2020
The Big Night In
2019
Trust Morecambe & Wise
2019
Lenny Henry's Race Through Comedy
2018
Zog
2018
The Long Song
2017
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
2016
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously
2016
Our Queen at Ninety
2015
Danny & the Human Zoo
2014
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2013
Broadchurch
2011
Red Nose Day: 25 Monster Years
2011
Famous, Rich And In The Slums with Comic Relief
2010
Tinga Tinga Tales
2010
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2008
Big & Small
2008
Lenry Henry.TV
2007
Lenny's Britain
2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
The Lenny Henry Show
2000
Lenny Henry in Pieces
2000
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
1998
Lenny Goes to Town
1998
Windrush
1993
Chef
1991
Alive and Kicking
1991
True Identity
1991
Lenny Go Home
1990
Oxford
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1989
Lenny Live and Unleashed
1989
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
Just Like That!
1987
The Lenny Henry Show
1987
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
1986
Lenny Henry Tonite
1986
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

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