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- Birth nameTimothy L. McInnerny
- Height6′ 0½″ (1.84 m)
- Tim McInnerny is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom Blackadder. McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny. He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme, and Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976 after taking a gap year backpacking around the world.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- RelativesLizzy McInnerny(Sibling)
- After playing an essentially similar character called "Percy" in each of the first two "Black Adder" series, he declined to reprise the character in Blackadder the Third (1987), as he felt that the possibilities of playing a bumbling fool had been exhausted. After playing a guest role in one episode of the third series, writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton persuaded him back into the regular cast for Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) by offering him a role with a different name (and personality) in the shape of "Captain Darling". He is, thus, the only one of the cast to play differently named regular characters in different series.
- Is an Oxford (Wadham College) graduate.
- Along with Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson, he is one of only three actors to appear in all four "Blackadder" series: The Black Adder (1983), Blackadder II (1986), Blackadder the Third (1987) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989).
- Older brother of actress Lizzy McInnerny.
- Long-term partner is art director Annie Gosney.
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