Background
Pemberton was born in Blackburn, Lancashire.
Pemberton was born in Blackburn, Lancashire.
He attended Saint Michael"s Civil Engineering High School, where his acting skills were first recognised. After studying at Runshaw College, Pemberton graduated from Bretton Hall College with a Bachelor (Honours) in theatre arts
Pemberton and Shearsmith also wrote and appeared in the sitcom Psychoville. His other television credits include Doctor Who, Benidorm, Blackpool, Shameless, Whitechapel, Happy Valley and Mapp and Lucia. He has produced, performed in, and directed various stage productions.
He has written for Variety and was the assistant editor of the International Guide from 1991 to 1998.
His television credits include Whitechapel, Doctor Who, Benidorm, Under the Greenwood Tree, Hotel Babylon, The Last Detective, Randall and Hopkirk, Blackpool, and Shameless. In 2004, he played Doctor Bessner in Death on the Nile.
He also starred in the film Lassie (2005). The League of Gentlemen initially began as a stage act in 1995, then transferred to British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 as On the Town with the League of Gentlemen in 1997, and finally arrived on television on British Broadcasting Corporation Two in 1999.
In 2007, Pemberton made an appearance as the vicar in the film Mr.
Bean"s Holiday. In July 2007, he took over from Bob Martin as "Manitoba in Chair" in the West End production of the musical The Drowsy Chaperone, playing the role until the production closed on 4 August 2007. In June 2009, Psychoville aired and marked Pemberton"s return to British Broadcasting Corporation Two.
lieutenant was co-written by Pemberton and his fellow League of Gentlemen member Reece Shearsmith.
Both of them play numerous characters in the series, similar to the format of The League of Gentlemen. Pemberton portrayed Rufus Drumknott in 2010"s Terry Pratchett"s Going Postal. He appeared as Vice Principal Douglas Panch in the Donmar"s 2011 production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
In 2014, he played Georgie Pillson in an adaptation of East.F. Benson"s Mapp and Lucia.
He also wrote the adaptation, which featured his League of Gentlemen cohort Mark Gatiss. lieutenant was broadcast during Christmas 2014.
Since 2014, he has starred as various characters in the dark comedy anthology series Inside Number. 9, which he co-created with Shearsmith, airing on British Broadcasting Corporation Two.
A second series aired in 2015.
Pemberton"s previous work has centred mainly around fringe theatre. He was a founding member of the 606 Theatre with Gordon Anderson, Tom Hadley, and producer Shane Walter. Pemberton is best known as being a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen, along with fellow performers Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, and co-writer Jeremy Dyson, all of whom he met at Bretton Hall College in his late teens.
In the 2008 English language Digital Video Disc re-release of the cult 2006 Norwegian animated film Free Jimmy, Pemberton voiced Mattis, a heavy-set and bizarrely-dressed biker member of the Lappish Mafia.