Brian Conley
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In a career spanning three decades Brian Conley has appeared in award-winning West End musicals and television sitcoms, presented his own chat shows, recorded three albums and completed numerous sell-out tours of the UK. Born and raised in West London, he studied Performing Arts at The Barbara Speake Stage School and at 16 started working as a cabaret performer. After appearances on  Live from the Palladium and Live from Her Majesty’s, Brian went on to host two series of Brian Conley – This Way Up, four series of The Brian Conley Show, and two series of the The Brian Conley Chat Show all for ITV.

Television: Brian’s acting roles include two series of Time after Time (British Comedy Award for Best ITV Sitcom) and Doug Dynamo Digby (the sadistic PE teacher) in the cult hit The Grimleys, with other roles in Last Of The Summer Wine, The Cruise with Steve Coogan and The Life And Times Of Vivienne Vyle opposite Jennifer Saunders.

Brian presented The National Lottery Show Live; hosted two series of Let Me Entertain You for the BBC, starred in his own An Audience With….  performed in eight Royal Variety Performances and hosted the last Royal Variety Performance of the century.  He also recently hosted the Emmys in Cannes.  

Theatre:  In the West End Brian starred as Bill Snibson in Me & My Girl for a year at the Adelphi Theatre, as Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang! Bang! (London Palladium) and originated the role of Al Jolson in the Olivier Award winning Jolson (Victoria Palace Theatre). He appeared in the hit comedy Elton John’s Glasses at the Queen’s Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. In 2008 Brian starred as Harold Hill in the sell out run of The Music Man at the Chichester Festival Theatre for which he won Best Performance in a Musical.  Most recently Brian has starred as Edna Turnblad in the hit West End show Hairspray both at the Shaftesbury Theatre and on tour.  Last year Brian continued to sell-out theatres around the country with his tour of The Best of Brian Conley and has also just completed a nationwide tour of  Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show, a theatrical celebration of Neil Diamond, directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood. 

Brian has recorded three albums, Stage to Stage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Let The Good Times Roll and Brian Conley Sings.

Film:  Brian starred in Circus with John Hannah and Eddie Izzard;  Dream with Sinead Cusack; Arthur’s Dyke with Pauline Quirk; I Am Bob with Sir Bob Geldof and joined Sean Bean and Christian Bale in the cult film Equilibrium.

Brian has won numerous awards in his career including The National Television Award for Most Popular Comedy Performer, Show Business Personality of the Year, the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for Most Popular Performer and Best Performance in a Musical (The Music Man) the Theatrical Management Association Awards. He has also been honoured with the Big Red Book when featured on This is Your Life. 

Brian lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife Anne-Marie and their two daughters Amy and Lucy, Maisy and Ruby the dogs and Mr Buttercup the bunny.