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Actor

Ian Cognito

Acting

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Acting credits

2

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.5

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Movies: 2Series: 0Crew credits: 1

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

Writer (1)

Biography

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.

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