Tom Binns

Tom Binns
Born	Christopher Thomas Binns 1970 Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Occupation	Writer, actor, comic

Tom Binns is a British writer, actor, comic, television presenter and radio presenter.

Tom Binns is the co-writer of BBC 1's Hospital People part of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse. He also played the five lead characters Ivan Brackenbury, Ian D Montfort, Susan Mitchell, Terry Boyle and Father Kenny.

He won the Best International Act at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2013. Nominated for Best Comedy Show at FringeWorld, Perth in 2015 and 2016. He was nominated at the Edinburgh Festival for the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2007 – as the hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury. He has been twice nominated for the Adelaide Fringe Comedy Award in 2010 and 2011. He was voted a Fosters Comedy God in 2010. He also was nominated for a Chortle Comedy Award in 2011 and was also named in a list of their 50 Most Memorable Gigs of the decade. In 2002 the readers of More Magazine voted him the 25th Sexiest Man in The World.

He appears in the BBC MI5 drama Spooks (Episode 6 Series 6), Series 3 of the IT Crowd on Channel 4, and, in character as Ivan Brackenbury, on BBC Radio 2 as part of The Jason Byrne Show. "Knowing Me Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge" BBC 2

As Ian D Montfort he has had a BBC Radio 2 Series called Ian D Montfort is Unbelievable, followed on BBC Radio 2 in February 2013.

Besides writing comedy for television and radio Binns has appeared on other television shows, such as RI:SE, Bullrun, Oblivion and as a writer on Trigger Happy TV, which he gained recognition for as he earned "The best comedy moment" and "TV moment of 2001" awards. His first television appearances were Friday Night Armistice (BBC2) and Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun, and has gone on to further appear in the Channel 4-based late night sports talk show Under the Moon, with Danny Kelly and stage appearances at the Bloomsbury Theatre and Garrick Theatre.

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