{{short description|British writer}} {{Use British English|date=May 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox person |name = Guy Jenkin |image = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|4|27|df=y}}<ref>[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/genNTINnejMXwW_UPHbAjOA3ANc/appointments Companies House]</ref> |birth_place = London, England |death_date = |death_place = |death_cause = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |citizenship = |other_names = |known_for = |education = |alma_mater = Trinity College Cambridge |employer = |occupation = |spouse = Bernadette Davis |partner = |children = Jack J, Louis Jenkin, Lara Jenkin |parents = |relations = |signature = |website = }} '''Guy Jenkin''' (born 27 April 1955) is a British film director and comedy writer who is best known for working together with Andy Hamilton on sitcoms and comedies such as ''Drop the Dead Donkey'' (1990–1998), ''Outnumbered'' (2007–2014), and ''Ballot Monkeys'' (2015).
==Early life== He attended Trinity College, Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cambridge's historic film and TV scene |url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/film-and-tv/26656 |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=Varsity Online |language=en}}</ref>
==Career== He wrote the 2002 satirical comedy ''Jeffrey Archer: The Truth'', with Damian Lewis portraying Jeffrey Archer, and the 2003 drama film ''The Sleeping Dictionary'', starring Jessica Alba.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2002-12-02 |title=Jeffrey Archer – the Truth |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/dec/02/firstnight.broadcasting |access-date=2024-05-19 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lyons |first=Charles |date=2000-04-04 |title=Alba finds meaning in NL 'Dictionary' |url=https://variety.com/2000/film/news/alba-finds-meaning-in-nl-dictionary-1117780186/ |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
Jenkin also contributed to the popular 2006–2007 BBC series ''Life on Mars'', writing the sixth episode of the second series about heroin in 1973 and the Asian community.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC - Press Office - Life On Mars: Creative team |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/02_february/01/mars_creative.shtml |access-date=2024-05-19 |publisher=BBC}}</ref> The episode explores racism at the time.
In 2024, he and Hamilton created a stage show featuring original cast members of ''Drop the Dead Donkey'' which toured theatres in the UK.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cavendish |first=Dominic |date=2024-02-05 |title='1990s excesses now look mild': inside the improbable return of Drop the Dead Donkey |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/drop-the-dead-donkey-itn-news-andy-hamilton/ |access-date=2024-05-19 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> He has also written and is directing a film about the Tudors, titled ''Fools''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Guide |first=British Comedy |date=2024-02-09 |title=Karen Gillan is Mary Tudor in Fools from Outnumbered's Guy Jenkin |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/film/news/7757/karen-gillan-stars-in-fools/ |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en}}</ref>
Jenkin's novel ''Murder Most Foul'', about the killing of Christopher Marlowe, was shortlisted for the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Richard Ayoade among authors in running to have pig named after book |journal=The Guardian |last=Salam |first=Sabah |date=2025-10-28 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/28/richard-ayoade-among-authors-in-running-to-have-pig-named-after-book |access-date=2025-10-28}}</ref>
==Personal life== Jenkin is married to Bernadette Davis, the creator and writer of ''Some Girls''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Three – Some Girls, Series 1 – Interview with Bernadette Davis |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1q94qYc60gWyL3l4NwjdDkw/interview-with-bernadette-davis |access-date=2024-12-19 |publisher=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> He lives in Balham in south London.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0420746}} * {{British Comedy Guide|people|guy_jenkin}}
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