Sir Lenworth George Henry CBE, known as Lenny Henry, is an English stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer and television presenter.

Filmography

• 2026The Magic Faraway Tree — Know All
• The Split Up — Alex Edwards
• 2025Jay Kelly — Larry
• Missing You — Clint Donovan
• 2024Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl — Mr. Convenience (voice)
• Three Little Birds — Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
• Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain — Presenter
• 2022My Name Is Leon — Mr. Johnson
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — Sadoc Burrows
• 2022The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Global Fan Screening — Sadoc Burrows
• The Sandman — Martin Tenbones (voice), Bernard 'Bernie' Capax
• The Witcher: Blood Origin — Chief Sage Balor
• 2021Zog and the Flying Doctors — Narrator (voice)
• Lenny Henry's Race Through Comedy — Presenter
• The Long Song — Godfrey
• 2015Danny & the Human Zoo — Samson, Writer
• Broadchurch — Ed Burnett
• 2012National Theatre Live: The Comedy of Errors — Antipholus of Syracuse
• 2012The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! — Peg Leg Hastings (voice)
• The Syndicate — Godfrey Watson
• Perspectives
• 2011Red Nose Day: 25 Monster Years — Self, Writer
• 2011The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse
• Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
• Tinga Tinga Tales — Elephant (voice)
• Big & Small — Big / Small (voice)
• Lenry Henry.TV
• A Bucket O' French and Saunders
• 2007Penelope — Krull
• Doctor Who — Daniel Barton
• Harry & Paul
• 2005Lenny Henry Live - So Much Things To Say — Writer
• 2005MirrorMask — Cops 1-4
• The F Word
• 2004Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Shrunken Head (voice)
• The Lenny Henry Show
• Little Robots — Sporty (voice)
• 2003Lying To Michael Jackson — Michael Jackson
• 2002The Best of French & Saunders — Various
• Lenny Henry in Pieces
• The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
• Hope and Glory — Ian George
• 1999The Man — Dennis Jackson
• Lenny Goes to Town
• 1996Famous Fred — Fred (voice)
• Neverwhere — Creator
• Funky Black Shorts — Director, Writer
• 1994Lenny Henry: Live and Loud! Tour 1994
• 1994White Goods — Charlie Collins
• Chef — Gareth Blackstock
• 1992In Dreams — Lenny/Michael Jackson/Prince
• Later... with Jools Holland
• 1991Alive and Kicking — Stevie 'Smudger' Smith
• 1991Bernard and the Genie — Josephus the Genie, Original Concept
• 1991True Identity — Miles Pope
• 1990Oxford — Steve Wild
• 1990South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1 — Warder
• 1989Lenny Live and Unleashed — Himself & various characters, Writer
• Saturday Night Clive
• Screen One — Stevie 'Smudger' Smith
• 1989Work Experience — Terence
• Comic Relief — Self - Presenter, Creator
• 1988Spitting Image: The Ronnie & Nancy Show — Various Roles
• 1988The Suicide Club — Cam
• 1987Coast to Coast — Ritchie Lee
• French & Saunders — Lt. Chris Clark, Richard
• The Lenny Henry Show — Delbert Wilkins
• Lenny Henry Tonite
• Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
• Happy Families — Hollywood Hobo
• Screen Two — Ritchie Lee
• Aspel & Company
• Natural World — Narrator
• O.T.T.
• The Comic Strip Presents... — Warder, Steve Wild
• 1982The Funny Side of Christmas — Various Characters
• The Young Ones — Postman
• The South Bank Show
• The Fosters — Sonny Foster
• The Summer Show
• Tiswas
• World in Action
• The BAFTA Awards — Host
• The Lenny Henry Birthday Show
• Tommy Cooper at the BBC — Presenter

Appearances as themselves (68)

• Live from the Lycett Arms — Self / Pub Manager
• 2026Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen — Self (archive footage)
• TFI Unplugged — Self
• Alison Hammond's Big Weekend — Self - Interviewed Guest
• Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters — Self - Contestant
• The Assembly — Self
• 2024Art Matters — Self
• 2024Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money — Self
• Legends of Comedy with Lenny Henry — Self - Host
• Perfect Pub Walks — Self
• 2023An Audience with Kylie — Self
• 2022Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony — Self
• 2021Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas — Self
• 2021Parkinson at 50 — Self (archive footage)
• Back to the… — Self
• 2020Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure... — Self
• 2020Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History — Self - Presenter
• 2020The Big Night In — Self - Presenter
• 2019Happy Birthday OU: 50 Years of the Open University — Self - Presenter
• Trust Morecambe & Wise — Self - Presenter
• 2018Zog — Himself - Narrator (voice)
• 2017Comic Relief: Red Nose Day — Self - Presenter
• John Bishop: In Conversation with... — Self
• 2016Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood — Self
• 2016Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously — Self
• 2016Our Queen at Ninety — Self
• A Life on Screen — Self
• 2014Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule — Self
• W1A — Self
• The Last Leg — Self
• 2012The Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012 — Self - Presenter
• Famous, Rich And In The Slums with Comic Relief — Himself
• The Magicians — Self
• 2009Now That’s What I Call Comedy — Himself
• 2008Gaybo Laughs Back — Self
• Q&A — Self - Panellist
• 2008The Mighty Boosh: A Journey Through Time and Space — Himself
• Lenny's Britain — Himself - Presenter
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• Great British Menu — Self - Guest Judge
• 2006It Started with Swap Shop — Self
• The One Show — Self, Self - Guest
• 2005The Comic Strip - A Retrospective — Self
• 2005The Funny Blokes of British Comedy — Self
• Parkinson — Self - Guest
• 2004Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? — Self
• V Graham Norton — Self
• 1999Rude For A Reason: Live from Brixton Academy — Himself
• Parkinson — Self
• Windrush — Self
• 1997The Story of Bean — Self
• Shooting Stars — Self
• 1992Black and White in Colour — Self
• 1991Lenny Go Home — Self
• 1989Just Like That! — Self
• 1989The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball — Self
• 1988Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute — Self
• This Morning — Self
• Going Live! — Self
• 1987The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball — Self
• 1986The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live — Self
• The Lenny Henry Show — Self / Various
• Wogan — Self
• Olivier Awards — Self - Host
• Six Fifty-Five Special — Self
• Three of a Kind — Self / Various Characters
• The Secret Policeman's Ball — Self
• Top of the Pops — Self - Host