Kevin Eldon

Kevin Eldon is an English actor and comedian. He featured in British comedy television shows of the 1990s including Fist of Fun, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Big Train, Brass Eye and Jam. In 2013 he appeared in his own BBC sketch series, It's Kevin.

Personal life

Eldon was born in Chatham, Kent. He is a practicing Nichiren Buddhist since 1990. He has a daughter with his long-term girlfriend Holly who he met on the set of Hyperdrive where she was the art director.

Early career and Lee & Herring

Eldon occupied half a page in a book called Volume, Oliver Gray's history of punk-era Southampton, where, in 1980, Eldon fronted a band called The Time. He started on the stand-up circuit in the early 1990s performing an act in character as the political poet Paul Hamilton, but has also done stand-up as himself on occasions.