Rufus Hound Biography

Fast Facts

• Considered studying drama at university, but after a summer job in an agency decided to work in PR instead
• Met Russell Brand while doing backstage work for an Edinburgh festival play; Brand suggested he become a comedian and helped Hound come up with his stage name
• Stood as an MEP candidate for the National Health Action party in 2014, but failed to be elected
• In 2015, appeared in The Wars of the Roses at the Rose Theatre in Kingston, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn
• In 2017, played Dr
• Prentice in Joe Orton's What The Butler Saw at the Leicester theatre
• Is a patron of CMV Action, a charity supporting congenital CMV sufferers and their families