Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais (born June 25, 1961) is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician and writer. Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. Gervais has also starred in a number of Hollywood films, assuming leading roles in Ghost Town and The Invention of Lying. He has performed on four sell-out stand-up comedy tours, written the best-selling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast in the world as of March 2009, The Ricky Gervais Show. He has won a multitude of awards and honours, including seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and the 2006 Rose d'Or, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2007 he was voted the 11th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 3rd greatest stand-up comic. In 2010 he was named on the TIME 100 list of the world's most influential people. Gervais hosted both the 2010 and 2011 Golden Globe Awards.
134 acting credits · 20 directing credits
Acting · 134
The Simpsons
1989
Family Guy
1999
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Office
2005
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Conan
2010
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
BoJack Horseman
2014
The One Show
2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Hot Ones
2015
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Last Leg
2013
Louie
2010
GMTV
1993
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
2012
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
Extras
2005
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
2005
Parkinson
1998
Room 101
1994
Night at the Museum
2006
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
2019
The Office
2001
Galavant
2015
Alias
2001
Talking Sopranos
2020
After Life
2019
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009
Dog Man
2025
Spaced
1999
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
2009
Stardust
2007
The 11 O'Clock Show
1998
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
2016
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
2022
Derek
2013
The Marriage Ref
2010
The Little Prince
2015
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
2011
An Idiot Abroad
2010
The Muppets
2011
Life's Too Short
2011
Valiant
2005
Escape from Planet Earth
2013
Ghost Town
2008
German Genius
2023
The Ricky Gervais Show
2010
Muppets Most Wanted
2014
The Alec Baldwin Show
2018
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy
2024
The Invention of Lying
2009
This Morning
1988
The Willoughbys
2020
For Your Consideration
2006
Child Support
2018
Cemetery Junction
2010
Ricky Gervais Alley Cats
2026
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
2009
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013
The Last Laugh
2016
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
2002
SpongeBob's Truth or Square
2009
Special Correspondents
2016
Live from Studio Five
2009
Meet Ricky Gervais
2000
David Brent: Life on the Road
2016
Horne & Corden
2009
George Michael: Freedom Uncut
2022
Concert for Diana
2007
David Haye versus
2011
The Nazi Pug: Joke or Hate?
2019
The Unbelievers
2013
Dog Eat Dog
2001
Ricky Gervais: Humanity
2018
Ricky Gervais: Mortality
2025
Offensive: The Real Derek and Clive
2002
The Office Retrospective
2013
Alan Partridge Presents: The Cream of British Comedy
2005
Learn Guitar with David Brent
2013
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
Ricky Gervais: SuperNature
2022
Golden Years
2003
Ricky Gervais Live: Animals
2003
Prequel: The Dawn of Lying
2009
Jim Norton: Mouthful of Shame
2017
Pictoplasma: Characters in Motion, Vol. 1
2005
The Wind in the Willows
—
Sesame Street: Singing with the Stars
2012
Vic Reeves Examines
2000
Ricky Gervais: Armageddon
2023
George Michael: Freedom
2017
The Art of Breaking Character
2007
Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics
2004
Derek Special
2015
Kick Out the Jams: The Story of XFM
2022
The Jim Tavaré Show
1999
This Side of the Truth, A Truly 'Honest' Making of The Invention of Lying
2010
Ricky Gervais Live 4: Science
2010
How I Made The Office by Ricky Gervais
2002
Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool
2007
The Return of Brent
2013
Ricky Gervais: Out of England
2008
Ricky Gervais Live 3: Fame
2007
Classic Albums: Suede - Coming Up
2021
Finding Leo
2005
Taping Nigel II: The Gimpening
2007
Talking Funny
2011
Suede: The Insatiable Ones
2018
Seedy Boss
1998
Learn English with Ricky Gervais
2012
Taping Nigel
2005
Living with Ricky Gervais
2004
Ricky Gervais: Out of England 2
2010
When Karl Met Warwick
2010
The Fight
2002
Meet Karl Pilkington II
2010
The Simpsons: Mischief & Mayhem
2010
Meet Karl Pilkington
2004
Living with Ricky Gervais 2
2007
Directing · 20
Extras
2005
The Office
2001
After Life
2019
Derek
2013
Life's Too Short
2011
The Invention of Lying
2009
Cemetery Junction
2010
Special Correspondents
2016
David Brent: Life on the Road
2016
Prequel: The Dawn of Lying
2009
Derek Special
2015
Ricky Gervais Live 4: Science
2010
7 Minutes
2023
The Return of Brent
2013
Finding Leo
2005
Taping Nigel II: The Gimpening
2007
Learn English with Ricky Gervais
2012
Taping Nigel
2005
When Karl Met Warwick
2010
Meet Karl Pilkington
2004