Biography
Tim Key is an English actor, writer, comedian and poet. Born on 2 September 1976 in Cambridgeshire, he studied Russian at the University of Sheffield and performed with Cambridge Footlights before appearing regularly at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
He won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2009 for his solo show The Slutcracker. Key is known for playing Sidekick Simon in the Alan Partridge films and series, and for roles in See How They Run (2022), Wicked Little Letters (2024) and Mickey 17 (2025), in which he appeared as Pigeon Man. He co-wrote the screenplay for and starred as Charles Heath in The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025), which received several BAFTA and British Independent Film Award nominations.
