James Corden

Corden has been nominated for 22 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning 9 in total, including for The Late Late Show, Carpool Karaoke and hosting the 70th Tony Awards.

James Kimberley Corden (born 22 August 1978 ) is an English actor, comedian, singer, writer, producer, and former television host.

In the United Kingdom, he is best known for co-writing and starring in the critically acclaimed BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey.

Corden's first stage appearance was at the age of 18, with a one-line part in the 1996 musical Martin Guerre.

His first TV reporter role was on the BBC's Good Morning with Anne and Nick, interviewing Meat Loaf.

He also starred in Tango advertisements in 1998 and had a role as a bookish student in Teachers and in 2000 a small part in an episode of Hollyoaks.

His early television work included Gareth Jones in the 1999 series Boyz Unlimited.

Corden's early film credits include Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999), Mike Leigh's All or Nothing (2002), Heartlands (2002), and Cruise of the Gods (2002).

From 2000 to 2005, Corden starred on the British television series Fat Friends as Jamie Rymer.

He garnered a nomination for the 2000 Royal Television Society Award for Network Newcomer On Screen for his work.

Corden had guest appearances on Little Britain and Dalziel and Pascoe, both in 2004.

Beginning in 2004 Corden played the role of Timms in the original London stage production of Alan Bennett's play The History Boys, as well as in the Broadway, Sydney, Wellington, and Hong Kong productions.

He also was in the radio and 2006 film adaptation versions of the play.

In 2006, he appeared in the film Starter for 10.

Originally airing from 2007 to 2010, Corden co-wrote and co-starred with Welsh actress Ruth Jones in Gavin & Stacey, for which he won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Comedy Performance.

He was featured, along with grime artist Dizzee Rascal, on the UK No.1 single "Shout".

From 2007 to 2010, Corden co-starred in his own series, the BBC Three sitcom Gavin & Stacey.

He co-wrote the series with his Fat Friends costar Ruth Jones; Corden and Jones played the friends of the title characters, with Corden starring as Smithy.

The series proved popular and was well-received critically.

For the show, Corden won Best Male Comedy Performer and Gavin & Stacey won Best New British Television Comedy at the 2007 British Comedy Awards.

At the 2008 Television BAFTAs, Corden won the BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance, and Gavin & Stacey won the BAFTA's Audience Award for Programme of the Year.

In December 2008, the show won Best TV Comedy in the 2008 British Comedy Awards.

He hosted the Brit Awards, in 2009, 2011, and 2014.

From 2010 to 2019, Corden presented the panel show A League of Their Own on Sky One.

Corden has also acted in films such as Gulliver's Travels (2010), Kill Your Friends (2015), and Peter Rabbit (2018) and its 2021 sequel (in which he voiced the title character).

Gavin & Stacey also won the award for Most Popular Comedy Programme at the National Television Awards in 2010.

Corden created his Carpool Karaoke sketch in 2011.

In 2011, Corden starred in the National Theatre one-man show One Man, Two Guvnors, which transferred from the West End to Broadway, where Corden won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.

He's also acted in the musical films Into the Woods (2014), Cats (2019), The Prom (2020), and Cinderella (2021).

In the United States, he is best known as the host of The Late Late Show with James Corden, a late-night talk show that aired on CBS from 2015 to 2023.

In 2015, he received the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year.

Corden was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama.

Corden was born in Hillingdon, Greater London, the son of Margaret and Malcolm Corden.

His father was a musician in the Central Band of the Royal Air Force, and later became a salesman of Christian books and Bibles.

Corden's mother was a social worker.

He grew up in Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire, and attended Park Middle School and Holmer Green Upper School.

He has two sisters.

He hosted the Tony Awards in 2016 and 2019 and the Grammy Awards in 2017 and 2018.

In 2019, Gavin & Stacey returned for a Christmas special, with the episode achieving the highest Christmas Day viewership in the UK for more than a decade.

During the two year and seven months run of Gavin & Stacey, Corden's professional endeavours outside the successful series proved somewhat chequered.