Rowan Atkinson (born January 6, 1955) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter best known for appearing on the BBC2 comedy sketch series Not the Nine O'Clock News from 1979 to 1982 and for his roles as Edmund Blackadder on the BBC1 sitcom Blackadder, Mr. Bean on the ITV comedy series of the same name and as Inspector Raymond Fowler, QPM on the BBC sitcom The Thin Blue Line. Although he has never been on Saturday Night Live, his well-known character Mr. Bean has been impersonated by Norm MacDonald on November 8, 1997 during the "Set Our Nanny Free" sketch.
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