Mr. Bean (character)
| Mr. Bean | |
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| Mr. Bean character | |
Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean in August 1997
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| First appearance | Mr. Bean |
| Last appearance | Mr. Bean's Holiday |
| Created by | Rowan Atkinson |
| Portrayed by | Rowan Atkinson |
| Voiced by | Rowan Atkinson |
| Born | 15 September 1955 |
| Location | Flat 2, 12 Arbour Road, Highbury, London, England |
| Information | |
| Species | Human (possibly an extraterrestrial) |
| Gender | Male |
| Nationality | British |
| Relationships | Irma Gobb |
| Enemies |
Mrs. Wicket Scrapper |
| Hair | Black |
| External links | |
| Website | Mr. Bean |
Mr. Bean is a fictional character on the British comedy television programme, Mr. Bean and Mr. Bean: The Animated Series. He is created, voiced and portrayed by Rowan Atkinson. He made his first appearance on television, on the original Mr. Bean episode which aired on 1 January 1990.
Mr. Bean lives in Flat 2, 12 Arbour Road, Highbury, London, England. His first name (he names himself "Bean" to others) and profession, if any, are never mentioned. In the first film adaptation, "Mr." appears on his passport in the "first name" field, and he is shown employed as a guard at London's National Gallery.
At the beginning of episode two onwards, Mr. Bean falls from the sky in a beam of light, accompanied by a choir singing Ecce homo qui est faba ("Behold the man who is a bean"), recorded by Southwark Cathedral Choir in 1990. These opening sequences were initially in black and white in episodes two and three, and were intended by the producers to show his status as an "ordinary man cast into the spotlight". However, later episodes showed Mr. Bean dropping from the night sky in a deserted London street against the backdrop of St Paul's Cathedral. At the end of episodes three and six he is also shown being sucked right back up into the sky in the respective background scenes (black scene in episode 3 and street scene in episode 6). Atkinson has acknowledged that Mr Bean "has an alien aspect to him". In the animated series (episode, "Double Trouble") he is taken inside a spacecraft with "aliens" who look exactly like him and even have their own plushy toys. In an obvious homage, the aliens send him back home in a beam of light and music similar to the opening of the original Mr. Bean series. Whether Bean is an extraterrestrial is not clear.
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