Jonny Sweet

✎ About Jonny Sweet

Who is it?: Actor, Writer, Producer

Birth Year: 1985

Occupation: Actor, comedian, writer

Years active: 2008 - Present

Jonny Sweet

Jonny Sweet was born on 1985, is Actor, Writer, Producer. Jonathan Huw Sweet was born in Nottingham in 1985 to a solicitor father and a school-teacher mother and, after attending Nottingham High School, went on to gain a first class degree in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Here he became part of the Footlights Review along with Simon Bird and Joe Thomas, who would later form half of the 'In-Betweeners' in the successful comedy series. Jonny appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, both with Joe Thomas and as a solo stand-up comic, winning the best new-comer award for his routine About Arthur, centering on a fictional brother. Abandoning his ambition to go into publishing Jonny first came to television notice playing prime minister David Cameron in the spoof documentary 'When Boris Met Dave' and appeared in guest roles in youth-orientated sitcoms like 'The In-Betweeners' and 'Off the Hook';. In 2011 he combined with Bird and Thomas to create and star in 'Chickens', a comedic look at lads who had failed to join up in World War One and in 2015 he wrote and appeared in the romantic sitcom 'Together' opposite Cara Theobold. In 2015 he also formed his own production company with Simon Bird, Guilty Party.
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Biography/Timeline

2009

Sweet became known for playing posh characters after his role as Future Prime Minister David Cameron in the 2009 More 4 satirical show When Boris Met Dave, which details how Cameron and Mayor of London Boris Johnson first met. He also appeared alongside Alistair McGowan, Adrian Edmonson and Hugh Dennis in Pete and Dud: The Lost Sketches, a revival of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's works on BBC Two.

2012

In 2012, he had a small role in BBC's Him & Her as one of Paul's newly found relatives.

2013

He has recorded two series of his Radio 4 sitcom, Hard to Tell, a romance in which you never hear the couple speak to one another, starring Charlotte Ritchie as his love interest. In 2013, he was nominated for the Best Breakthrough Artist at the British Comedy Awards.

2014

In 2014 Sweet starred as Tom Oliver in the Channel 4 police comedy-drama series Babylon. In 2015, Sweet created, wrote and starred in the BBC sitcom Together. He recently wrote an episode of Tom Basden's E4 series Gap Year.