Tim Key is a comedian, poet, actor, and writer. At the start of his career, Key won the 2009 Perrier Award and has since gone on to write and perform eight solo shows, the most recent of which, Mulberry, was described by The Times of London as “the greatest stand-up response to lockdown” with more than 150 shows performed in 2022 and 2023.

On screen, he is best known as Sidekick Simon in This Time with Alan Partridge and his leading role with Daisy May Cooper in The Witchfinder, as well as The Double, Inside No. 9, Peep Show, Pls Like, Greed and The End of the F***ing World. Most recently, he played Commissioner Harrold Scott alongside Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan in See How They Run. In addition to The Ballad of Wallis Island, Key will next be seen on the big screen opposite Robert Pattinson in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17.

On stage, he co-starred with Daniel Kitson in Tree at the Old Vic where he also played Yvan in Art with Rufus Sewell and Paul Ritter; his radio series Late Night Poetry with Tim Key has just been commissioned for a sixth season. Key also has written several successful poetry anthologies, including Chapters, He Used Thought As A Wife, and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.