Cricklewood - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

  • Elizabeth Adare – television actress in The Tomorrow People'
  • Emma Anderson – guitarist and songwriter of indie music bands Lush and Sing-Sing (band)
  • Tim Brooke-Taylor – television actor in The Goodies, now lives in Berkshire
  • Jamie Cho – actor
  • Alan Carr – comedian (mentioned at the end of 'Chatty Man' featuring Kylie Minogue, which aired on 1st June 2012)
  • Alan Coren – writer and satirist, who "did for the unprepossessing North London suburb of Cricklewood what Hardy did for Wessex"
  • Ching He Huang – TV chef
  • Tamsin Greig – actress, was brought up in Exeter Road, near Kilburn Tube station.
  • Ken Livingstone – former Mayor of London
  • Penelope Mortimer – late novelist lived on the Mapesbury Estate in her latter years.
  • Róisín Murphy – musician (since 2006)
  • Jimmy Nail – television actor in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
  • Dennis Nilsen – serial killer
  • Peter O'Toole – actor, filmstar
  • Andrew Sachs – actor best known for playing Manuel in Fawlty Towers lives in the area.
  • Oliver Sacks – famous neurologist was brought up on the corner of Exeter & Mapesbury Roads in the house where his parents were GPs.
  • Zadie Smith – author of White Teeth grew up in Cricklewood now lives in Rome
  • Simon Pegg – actor and comedian lived in Cricklewood in the early 1990s where he met long term comedy partner Nick Frost.
  • Nick Frost – actor and comedian lived there in the early 1990s.
  • Phil Lynott, lead singer of Thin Lizzie, lived in Cricklewood in the late 1970s.

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