Background
Bird was born in Guildford, Surrey as the third of four children of Graham Bird and Heather née Gage.
Bird was born in Guildford, Surrey as the third of four children of Graham Bird and Heather née Gage.
Bird was educated at Cranmore School, West Horsley, the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Queens" College, Cambridge, where he read English.
He is best known for playing Adam Goodman in the Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner and Will McKenzie in The Inbetweeners. At Cambridge, Bird was the President of the Footlights, the university"s sketch and theatrical group. Early comedy career While completing an Master of Arts in cultural and critical studies at Birkbeck College, Bird set up the sketch comedy group "The House of Windsor" with Joe Thomas (who plays Simon Cooper in The Inbetweeners) and Jonny Sweet They performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 and in 2008 with a show called The Meeting, described as a site-specific comedy installation set in an actual boardroom, which received national media attention and a clutch of five-star reviews.
Bird and Thomas were also regulars on series 1 and 2 of The Weekly Show, a podcast for Channel 4 Radio (2006-2007).
(He was a finalist in 2006, and was disqualified for deliberately breaking the rules in 2007) Breakthrough In 2008, Bird was cast in E4"s teen comedy The Inbetweeners as Will McKenzie, along with Joe Thomas. He was also nominated for Best Comedy Performance at the 2008 Royal Society Awards, and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme at the 2009 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.
Subsequent work In 2010 Bird created a British Broadcasting Corporation Three comedy panel show The King Is Dead, in which a well-known person is hypothetically killed off and a panel of three personalities go head-to-head in a series of satirical quiz rounds and challenges in their bid to replace them. He hosted alongside Nick Mohammed and Katy Wix.
Another of Bird"s projects is Friday Night Dinner, a single-camera comedy written by Robert Popper and made by Big Talk Productions.
Simon Bird returned to the character of Will McKenzie in The Inbetweeners Movie which was released on 17 August 2011. Bird has also co-created, co-written, and co-starred in a pilot, "Chickens", for Channel 4, alongside Jonny Sweet and Joe Thomas. lieutenant is about three men who remain in England during World War I. lieutenant was broadcast as part of Channel 4"s Comedy Showcase season.
In 2012, Sky1 picked up a 6 episode season, filming began in late 2012 and the series premiered in Summer 2013.
As of 2015, Bird currently voices thetrainline.com television advertisements.
Although his character in Friday Night Dinner is a member of a Jewish family (the Friday night dinner being a Jewish tradition), Bird himself is not Jewish.