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Harry Enfield (born May 30, 1961) is an
English comedian educated at the University of
York who quickly came to prominence after
appearing on Channel 4's Saturday Live in a number
of different personae created with Paul
Whitehouse. These quickly entered the national
consciousness.  

Amongst these characters was the Greek
kebab-seller with markedly fractured English,
"Stavros", a profound supporter of the football
club Arsenal F.C., which he demonstrated by
frequently uttering the phrase "Up the Arse". His
other popular character "Loadsamoney" spawned a
hit single in 1988 and sell out live tour. As a
foil to "Loadsamoney" Enfield and Whitehouse
created the Geordie "Bugger-All-Money" and in 1988
Enfield appeared as both characters during the
'Nelson Mandela Birthday Tribute Concert' at
Wembley Stadium. In time Whitehouse and Enfield
became disturbed that the "Loadsamoney" was being
seen as a positive image and killed him off. In
1989 Enfield realised a personal project with the
spoof of British Theatre Knights slumming in the
film industry "Sir Norbert Smith: A Life".

Before that he provided voices for the British
satirical puppet show Spitting Image.

After Saturday Live, Enfield moved to the BBC
where he developed his sketch show, "Harry
Enfield's Television Programme", and later Harry
Enfield and Chums with fellow comedians Paul
Whitehouse (later of Fast Show fame) and Kathy
Burke. This created more nationally recognised
characters such as "Mr. and Mrs. Loadsamoney",
"Tory Boy", "Smashie and Nicey", "Wayne Slob" and
"Annoying Kid Brother" who grew into "Kevin The
Teenager". Two characters played by Enfield and
Jon Glover, Mr Cholmondley-Warner and Grayson
appeared for several years both in the series'
mock 1950s information film sketches, and in
television commercials for the first of the
privatised UK telephone companies, Mercury
Communications.

In 2000 Enfield appeared in a his first leading
film role playing "Kevin" alongside Kathy Burke
who played the character's male friend "Perry" -
roles originally created for the television series
- in "Kevin & Perry Go Large". The film charted
the pair's attempt to become professional DJ|DJs
by travelling to the nightclubs of Ibiza and
molesting their idol DJ "Eyeball Paul", played by
Rhys Ifans, whilst gaining love but losing
virginity along the way.

Enfield has also been featured in a number of
successful commercials including the 1996 run for
Dime Bar. (One memorable commercial in this series
had Enfield as a country yokel refusing a Dime bar
with its crunchy centre because he preferred
armadilloes - soft on the inside and crunchy on
the outside.) In 2004, he starred in a series of
commercials for Burger King in the US as Dr.
Angus, a character designed to promote the
company's newest hamburger.

After a short break Enfield signed a new contract
with Sky Television, but only produced one series
which flopped badly. In 2003 Enfield returned to
the BBC with Celeb, a new series based on the
comic strip of the same name, as the ageing
rockstar character, Gary Bloke.

As of 2004 Enfield provided the voice of "The
Roaming Gnome" character used in
Travelocity|Travelocity's US advertising campaign.

He has a son and daughter with his second wife,
Lucy. 

Harry's father, Edward Enfield, has also made a
few appearances as a television presenter on
British television.