Hal Cruttenden

Hal Dominic Bart Cruttenden (born 9 September 1969) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor who has appeared on "Mock the Week, Live at the Referendum, Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News for You, The 11 O'Clock Show", "Richard Herring's Leicester Square Podcast", "", "Pointless Celebrities", and "Richard Osman's House of Games".
He has also written for "The Omid Djalili Show" and "The Rob Brydon Show". He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2002 Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
Biography.
Cruttenden grew up in Ealing, west London, and was educated at St Paul's School and the University of York. He is married to Dawn Coulter-Cruttenden, an artist from Derry, with whom he has two daughters, born in 2000 and 2002.
Having studied acting, he had bit parts on "EastEnders" and "Kavanagh QC" in the 1990s, and voiced BBC traffic reports. At 27, he did his first comedy gig.