Biography
Ed Gaughan is an English actor, comedian, director, voice actor and jazz musician. He grew up in Barnstaple and attended Pilton Community College. From 2000 to 2010 he formed a stand-up comedy double act with Andrew Buckley.
Gaughan co-created, co-wrote and starred as Davis in the 2010 film Skeletons, which received a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut by a British Director and won the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. He was nominated for the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy in 2011. He holds a BA in Jazz from Middlesex University and has worked as a voice actor since 2007, notably as Baron von Greenback in the BBC series Danger Mouse (2015–2019) and as Q Pootle 5.
His other screen credits include Black Mirror (2011) as Shaun, Hummingbird (2013) as Stan, Brassic (2019–) as Gideon, Closer to the Moon (2014) as the Defence Attorney, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) as a French Policeman.
