Brian Conley

In a career spanning three decades Brian Conley has appeared in award-winning West End musicals and television sit-coms, presented his own chat shows, recorded three albums and completed numerous sell-out tours of the UK. Born and raised in West Londonhe studied Performing Arts at The Barbara Speake Stage School and at 16 started working as a cabaret performer. After appearances on Five Alive and Live from the Palladium Brian hosted two series of Brian Conley – This Way Up and four series of The Brian Conley Show, both for ITV.

Television: Brian’s television roles include two series of Time after Time (British Comedy Award for Best ITV Sitcom) and Doug Dynamo Digby in ITV’s cult hit The Grimleys, starring opposite Amanda Holden, Nigel Planer and Noddy Holder with other roles in Last Of The Summer Wine, The Cruise 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…. and hosted the Royal Variety Performance. He also recently hosted the Emmys inCannes.

Theatre:  In the West End Brian starred 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 and starred as Bill Snibson in Me and My Girl for a year at the Adelphi Theatre. 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 at the Theatrical Management Association Awards.

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

Film:  Brian has starred in Circus with John Hannah and Eddie Izzard; Unconditional Love alongside Kathy Bates; 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 for his role of Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man. He was presented with the Big Red Book when featured on This is Your Life and has addressed the Oxford Union.

Most recently Brian has starred as Edna Turnblad in the hit West End show Hairspray both in London and on tour.  Last year Brian continued to sell-out theatres around the country with his tour of The Brian Conley Show.

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.