Peter Serafinowicz
Peter Szymon Serafinowicz is an English actor, comedian, director and screenwriter. His film roles include the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Pete in Shaun of the Dead (2004), Garthan Saal in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), the voice of Big Daddy in Sing (2016) and Sing 2 (2021), and The Sommelier in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017). On television, Serafinowicz created and starred in the comedy shows Look Around You (2002–2005) and The Peter Serafinowicz Show (2007–2008). He also voiced characters and worked as a creative consultant on South Park (2006–2015), portrayed Edgar Covington in Parks and Recreation (2013–2015), voiced the Fisher King in Doctor Who (2015), and starred as the title character in the live-action adaptation series The Tick (2016). His other television work includes voicing characters in animated series such as Archer, Bob's Burgers, Rick and Morty, The Simpsons, American Dad!, and the second season of What If...?, reprising his live-action role as Garthan Saal. Serafinowicz has voiced characters in video games such as Dark Souls II (2014), LittleBigPlanet 3 (2014), and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (2016). He has also directed music videos for acts such as Hot Chip and went viral in 2016 for political satire videos in which he dubbed over videos of Donald Trump with a "sassy" voice, a Cockney accent, and a posh English accent. Peter Szymon Serafinowicz was born into a Catholic family in Liverpool's Gateacre suburb on 10 July 1972, the son of post office worker Catherine (née Geary) and scaffolder Szymon Serafinowicz Jr. His father was born and raised in Surrey to a Polish mother and a Polish–Belarusian father and later moved to Liverpool as an adult. Serafinowicz has a brother, James, a film producer, and a sister Helen, a writer who was married to Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan from 2004 to 2020. At age three, Serafinowicz moved with his family to the Belle Vale district of Liverpool where he attended Our Lady of the Assumption Primary School. The family moved back to Gateacre when he was 14 and he attended St Francis Xavier's College in neighbouring Woolton. He later said: "I had a very happy childhood, but Belle Vale was very rough. I was only about three when we moved there, but I can still remember it looking very shiny, and it was all landscaped. But it was a very poor area, and it became scruffy quite quickly. [...] Gateacre is traditionally seen as one of the posh areas of Liverpool [but] it wasn't really that much posher!" Serafinowicz made his broadcasting debut in 1993 on Radio 1 show The Knowledge, a spoof documentary about the music industry. From there he went on to perform in Radio 4 shows Week Ending, Harry Hill's Fruit Corner, Grievous Bodily Radio, The Two Dannys, and A Whole New Ball Game. Serafinowicz made guest appearances on television, including the comedy shows Smack the Pony and Hippies (both 1999), Black Books (2000), I'm Alan Partridge (2002) and Little Britain (2003), comedy-drama Murder Most Horrid (1999), ITV drama series Agatha Christie's Marple (2006) and Parks and Recreation (2013).
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Brian Butterfield: Call of Now as Brian Butterfield
- 2025 · Amandaland as Johannes
- 2024 · The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee as Christopher Lee (Voice)
- 2024 · Dead Hot as Danny
- 2023 · Sumotherhood as Krzysztof
- 2022 · The Amazing Maurice as Death (voice)
- 2022 · The Paloni Show! Halloween Special! as
- 2022 · Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm as Neil / Big Neil (voice)
- 2022 · We Baby Bears as Judge Whisk (voice)
- 2021 · What If...? as Garthan Saal (voice)
- 2021 · Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel as Himself
- 2020 · Sassy Justice as Fred Sassy/Michael Caine/Donald Trump
- 2020 · DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger as The Phantom Stranger (voice)
- 2019 · His Dark Materials as Iofur Raknison (voice)
- 2017 · An Ordinary Man as Miro
- 2016 · Opening Night as Waldo (voice)
- 2016 · The Adventures of OG Sherlock Kush: The Deadly Brothel as OG Sherlock Kush
- 2015 · Star Wars at the BBC as Self - Presenter
- 2015 · Long Live the Royals as Frederick, Announcer,Demonic Hare
- 2015 · The Adventures of OG Sherlock Kush: The Mystery of the Royal Flasher as OG Sherlock Kush
- 2015 · The Adventures of OG Sherlock Kush as OG Sherlock Kush
- 2014 · Pudsey the Dog: The Movie as Edward the Horse (voice)
- 2014 · Mr. Sloane as Ross
- 2014 · Muppets Most Wanted as Gulag Guard (uncredited)
- 2013 · Rick and Morty as Agency Director (voice)
- 2013 · Rick and Morty as (voice)
- 2013 · How Videogames Changed the World as Self
- 2013 · The World's End as Knock-a-Door Run Home Owner (uncredited)
- 2013 · 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown as Self - Dictionary Corner
- 2013 · It's Kevin as Brad
- 2013 · It's Kevin as Bill Grundy
- 2012 · Bad Sugar as Ralph Cauldwell
- 2012 · Gravity Falls as Blind Ivan (voice)
- 2012 · The Secret Policeman's Ball as Paul McCartney
- 2011 · The Terrys as Puppet (voice)
- 2011 · Killing Bono as Hammond
- 2011 · Bob's Burgers as Scottjon Dansteve (voice)
- 2010 · The Best and the Brightest as Clark
- 2010 · Running Wilde as Fa'ad Shaoulian
- 2010 · Adventure Time as Lumpy Space Prince
- 2009 · The Greatest Ever 3D Moments as Narrator
- 2009 · Archer as George Spelvin (voice)
- 2009 · Archer as Cut-Rate James Mason / Turkman Leader / Archer's Father (voice)
- 2009 · Archer as Benoit (voice)
- 2009 · As Seen on TV as
- 2009 · You Have Been Watching as Self
- 2009 · Parks and Recreation as Lord Edgar Covington
- 2009 · Parks and Recreation as Edgar Covington
- 2008 · Childrens Hospital as Michael Caine (voice)
- 2008 · Tales of the Riverbank as Multi Characters (voice)
- 2007 · The Peter Serafinowicz Show as
- 2007 · Run Fatboy Run as TV Commentator
- 2007 · Tapping the Wire as Self
- 2007 · Would I Lie to You? as Self
- 2007 · Grindhouse as Screaming Man (segment "Don't") (uncredited)
- 2007 · Don't as
- 2006 · Sixty Six as Uncle Jimmy
- 2006 · The IT Crowd as Lift (voice)
- 2006 · The IT Crowd as Voice Over (voice)
- 2006 · The IT Crowd as Newsreader (voice)
- 2005 · Ripley Under Ground as Nigel
- 2005 · 8 Out of 10 Cats as Self
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Voice of Fisher King (voice)
- 2005 · American Dad! as Goran the Mutilator (voice)
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Walter Fane
- 2004 · The Calcium Kid as Dave King
- 2004 · Spaced: Skip to the End as Self
- 2003 · Celebrity Mastermind as
- 2003 · The Alchemists of Sound as Self
- 2003 · QI as Self
- 2003 · Hardware as Kenny
- 2003 · Hello, Friend as (voice)
- 2002 · Look Around You as Peter Packard
- 2002 · Look Around You as Scientist
- 2002 · Colin Versus the World: Mr. Lounge Lizard as Butch (voice)
- 2002 · Ted and Alice as
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
- 2001 · Calcium as
- 2001 · World of Pub as
- 2001 · The Junkies as Big Al/Narrator
- 1999 · Hippies as
- 1999 · The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns as George Fitzpatrick
- 1999 · Smack the Pony as Various Characters
- 1998 · You Are Here as Dr. Phil Phillips
- 1998 · Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime as Baron's Henchman #2
- 1998 · Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round as
- 1997 · South Park as Darth Chef (voice)
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Lucian Shirewell
- 1996 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self
- 1996 · Fisted as Himself
- 1990 · Have I Got News for You as Self
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Corporate CEO (voice)
- Future · Have I Got a Bit More News for You as Himself - Panellist
- 2025 · How to Train Your Dragon as
- 2025 · Million Dollar Secret as Self - Host
- 2025 · Wolf King as Mack Ferran (voice)
- 2024 · Creature Commandos as Victor (voice)
- 2024 · The Gentlemen as Tommy Dixon
- 2023 · Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget as Reginald Smith (voice)
- 2023 · White House Plumbers as William F. Buckley Jr.
- 2023 · Royal Crackers as Sandy (voice)
- 2022 · The School for Good and Evil as Yuba
- 2022 · The Bubble as Gavin
- 2021 · Sing 2 as Big Daddy (voice)
- 2020 · Batman: Death in the Family as The Phantom Stranger (voice)
- 2019 · Last Christmas as Theatre Producer
- 2019 · Miracle Workers as King Cragnoor
- 2018 · The Shivering Truth as (voice)
- 2017 · Going in Style as Murphy
- 2017 · John Wick: Chapter 2 as Sommelier
- 2016 · Sing as Big Daddy (voice)
- 2016 · The Tick as The Tick
- 2015 · Spy as Aldo
- 2014 · Guardians of the Galaxy as Denarian Saal
- 2011 · NTSF:SD:SUV:: as SAM (voice)
- 2010 · The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret as Tito the Cycling Lawyer
- 2009 · Couples Retreat as Sctanley
- 2009 · Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle as
- 2004 · Shaun of the Dead as Pete
- 2000 · Black Books as Howell Granger
- 1999 · Spaced as Duane Benzie
- 1999 · Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as Darth Maul / Battle Droid Commander / Gungan Scout (voice)
- 1997 · I'm Alan Partridge as Tex
- 1993 · Shooting Stars as Brian Butterfield
- 1991 · Murder Most Horrid as Tony Frost
- Future · Jingle Bell Heist as
- 1998 · Europigeon as Terry Wogan (voice only)
- 1998 · How Do You Want Me? as