Acting credits
2
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

Acting
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Acting credits
2
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
TMDB popularity
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Low visibility
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TMDB ID: 3656832
Known for: Acting
Born: November 21, 1958
Died: April 11, 2019
Age: 60
Place of birth: London, United Kingdom
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1994 - 2022
Years active: 29
Also known as
Paul Barbieri
Other jobs
Ian Cognito (real name Paul John Barbieri) was a British alternative comedian of Italian Irish descent. He won the Time Out Award for Stand-up Comedy in 1999 but famously never appeared on TV, nor did he ever want to. Cognito had an aggressive stage persona and a reputation as Britain’s "most banned" comic, again another reason for never appearing on TV. Nevertheless, he was widely rated as a masterful performer with an innate grasp of stagecraft, inviting comparisons to iconoclasts like Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, and Jerry Sadowitz. He died on stage of a heart attack on 11 April 2019 at the Lone Wolf comedy club in Bicester, aged just 60.
Movie credits linked with Ian Cognito.