David Mitchell (comedian)

David James Stuart Mitchell is a British comedian, actor and writer. He is half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb alongside Robert Webb. The duo starred in the Channelsitcom Peep Show in which Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan. Mitchell won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009 for his performance in the show. The duo have written and starred in several sketch shows including Bruiser, The Mitchell and Webb Situation, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and also That Mitchell and Webb Look. Mitchell and Webb also starred in the UK version of Apples Get a Mac advertisement campaign. Their first film Magicians was released in 2007.

Mitchells ancestry can in part be traced back to the Highland Clearances. He was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, to Ian Douglas Mitchell and Kathy Grey Mitchell , who were then hotel managers. In 1977, his parents gave up their jobs to lecture and to look after a then twoyearold Mitchell. He attended Napier House primary school. He is the elder of two boys when David was seven and a half years old his parents had another son, Daniel. The family moved to Oxford where Mitchells parents became lecturers on hotel management at Oxford Polytechnic and he attended New College School which was an independent preparatory school in the city. In a 2006 interview with The Independent, Mitchell stated his childhood dreams

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