Robert Llewellyn
British writer, broadcaster, presenter, actor and renewable energy advocate
Robert Llewellyn (born 10 March 1956) is a British actor, comedian, presenter, and writer. He plays the mechanoid Kryten in the sci-fi television sitcom Red Dwarf and presented the engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He also founded and hosts a YouTube channel, Everything Electric, which has grown into a company that puts on EV and "Everything Electric" conventions in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe.
Early life and career
Llewellyn was born in Northampton, England, and is of Welsh ancestry. His first foray into the world of showbusiness started out as a hobby, organising a few amateur cabaret evenings in a riverside warehouse overlooking Tower Bridge in London. The shows were a great success and he eventually helped form an alternative comedy theatre group called The Joeys. Within six months, he had stopped working as a shoemaker and started performing professionally with the group alongside Bernie Evans, Nigel Ordish and Graham Allum. The group toured Britain and France in the early 1980s, with an initial idea of exploring sexual politics between men. Llewellyn wrote much of the material, and also began writing novels. The Joeys split in 1985, having toured for years and done thousands of performances.
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