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name: "Paddy McGuinness"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paddy-mcguinness"
fi1m_id: "paddy-mcguinness"
imdb_id: "nm1222569"
tmdb_id: 553520
wikidata_id: "Q7123539"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 August 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-07T19:59:05.772791+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Paddy McGuinness

## Identity

Paddy McGuinness

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paddy-mcguinness
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paddy-mcguinness
- **IMDb ID:** nm1222569
- **TMDB ID:** 553520
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7123539
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_McGuinness, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7123539, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1222569/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/553520

Actor. Born 14 August 1973 in Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 August 1973, Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
- **Also known as:** Patrick Joseph "Paddy" McGuinness, Patrick Joseph McGuinness
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_McGuinness, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7123539, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1222569/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/553520

## Biography

Paddy McGuinness is an English comedian, actor and television presenter. Born Patrick Joseph McGuinness on 14 August 1973 in Farnworth, Lancashire, he began his career in comedy through collaborations with Peter Kay.

He appeared as Paddy in the sitcom *Phoenix Nights* (2001–2002) and reprised the role in the spin-off *Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere* (2004). He also featured in *That Peter Kay Thing* (2000). McGuinness has presented series including *Take Me Out* (2010–2019) and *Top Gear* (2019–2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Late Night Lycett* (2023), Fi1m 76, as Self - Guest — [page](https://film.one/tv/late-night-lycett.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Big New Year's In* (2020), as Presenter
- *The Keith And Paddy Picture Show* (2017), series, Creator
- *Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle* (2016), series, as Various Characters (archive footage)
- *Keith Lemon's Back t'Future Tribute* (2015), as Biff Tannen
- *Duck Quacks Don't Echo* (2014), series, Actor
- *The Security Men* (2013), as PC Clarke
- *Keith Lemon: The Film* (2012), as Gary
- *The Greatest Footie Ads Ever* (2012), as Host
- *Paddy's Show and Telly* (2011), series, as Host
- *Rory and Paddy's Even Greater British Adventure* (2010), series, Actor
- *Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure* (2008), series, Actor
- *Keith Lemon's Very Brilliant World Tour* (2008), series, as Gary Lemon
- *Max & Paddy's The Power of Two* (2005), as Paddy O' Shea · Writer
- *Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere* (2004), series, as Patrick "Paddy" O'Shea · Creator
- *Phoenix Nights* (2001), series, as Paddy
- *Peter Kay: Live at the Top of the Tower* (2000), as Merch Stall Man #2 · Thanks
- *That Peter Kay Thing* (2000), series, Actor
- *Comedy Lab* (1998), series, as Pump Attendant Terry

## Gallery

- ![Paddy McGuinness](https://film.one/media/person/6785794/gallery-a21552420eac.jpg) Paddy McGuinness — Simon P Blackburn (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Paddy_McGuinness.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Paddy McGuinness](https://film.one/media/person/6785794/gallery-9b4b2a62d7cd.jpg) Paddy McGuinness — Image via TMDB

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