Tim Key
Birth Name:
Tim Key
Birth Place:
Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Profession
Actor, Writer, Producer
Fast Facts
- Was nominated for a Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality
- Won the Edinburgh Comedy Award at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Graduated from Sheffield University after studying Russian there
- Joined the Cambridge Footlights after graduating from Sheffield University, where he met several comics who he formed the Cowards sketch group with
- Quote: "I have a lot of material, not all of it very good, but I've got a lot of it․"
- Quote: "I now have about 300 laminated pornographic playing cards with poems on them․ Which is a pretty poor reflection of the direction my life is going․"
- Created a non-tradition stand-up comedy style that combines poetry, short films, and strange challenges
- Though he once read his poems out of notebooks during performances, when his collection of notebooks grew too cumbersome, he switched to reading them off of laminated pornographic playing cards
- Released an album called "Tim Key․ With a String Quartet․ On a Boat․" In 2010
- Wrote "25 Poems, 3 Recipes and 32 Other Suggestions (An Inventory)" and "Instructions, Guidelines, Tutelage, Suggestions, Other Suggestions and Examples Etc․: An Attempted Book By Tim Key․ (And Conversations/ Descriptions/ A Piece About A Moth․"
Awards
- 2007Best British ShortWinner
- 2008BAFTA Film Award - Best Short Film:Nominated
- 2025Astra Midseason Award - Best Screenplay:Nominated
- 2025British Independent Film Award - Best British Independent Film:Nominated
- 2025British Independent Film Award - Best Screenplay, Sponsored by Apple Original Films:Winner
- 2025British Independent Film Award - Best Joint Lead Performance:Winner
- 2025British Independent Film Award - Best Debut Screenwriter, Sponsored by Film4:Nominated
- 2025National Film Award - Best Actor:Nominated
- 2026BAFTA Film Award - Outstanding British Film of the Year:Nominated
- 2026BAFTA Film Award - Best Screenplay (Adapted):Nominated
- 2026ALFS Award - Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker of the Year:Nominated