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Allin Kempthorne is a multi-award winning comedy actor, writer and performer, with far reaching experience across TV, films, radio, live performance and print media.

This is his story. Cue wibbly-wobbly swirly effect as we slip back to the small Cornish town where Allin grew up, a confident happy and creative child, his most recognisable gift being his ability to draw cartoons really well.

However in a rural community full of fishermen and farmers, cartooning wasn't seen as a useful skill. So aged 17 Allin jumped on a train and headed for London, leaving Cornwall and his country yokel accent far behind him. Arriving in the big city he taught himself how to speak like a civilised Englishman and ambitiously set about his big dream of becoming a newspaper cartoonist and gag-writer.

In less than a year Allin had achieved that dream. His humourous looks at life were being published widely across The Sun, Mirror, Star, Sport and News of the World newspapers. This stumped him a bit! He'd acheived his lifes goal of being published daily in the nations top newspapers and he was still only 18. It genuinely hadn't occurred to him he could achieve his dream so early. He needed a new challenge. But what?

He loved making people laugh and had a talent for comedy, but being a writer/cartoonist was keeping him shut away in small rooms. He needed to find a live audience, which meant he needed performance skills. He did what anyone would have done in these circumstances! He enrolled in Circus School!

He threw himself into his classes at Circus Space, the UK's top circus school, and applied himself to learning stage-craft, becoming skilled in physical performance, juggling, character acting and learnt how to fall off a unicycle and humiliate himself on the trapeze. At weekends he added real world experience as a street performer in London's famous Covent Garden where he learnt how to totally engage an audience. By the age of 20 he was regularly drawing crowds numbering hundreds of people with his lively half hour comedy juggling act. He started winning awards and was a finalist in the prestigious International Street Entertainer of the Year Award held in the Channel Islands.

Allin was head-hunted by Chessington World of Adventures where for the next two years he honed and developed his comedy juggling show. However, always hungry to push himself and increase his performance skills, he enrolled at Drama School. At London's Method Studio, his performance experience and highly developed skills in improv, comedy and showmanship caught the eye of his teachers, making him stand out as an exceedingly strong performer amongst his comparitively inexperienced fellow pupils and he was voted 'Most likely to succeed'. He now had strong, trained and developed talents as both a knockabout comedy entertainer and as a serious actor.

Now things got really busy! Allin picked up a five month contract touring Scotland with his lively blend of quick witted street comedy and audience thrilling circus skills. He added to his skills the arts of magic and conjuring which he learnt from Edinburgh magicians Ian Kendal and the BBC's The Real Hustle's Paul Wilson. Allin toured the country in Pantomimes and children's shows while also working busily as a corporate entertainer and became the Television studio warm-up act for Chris Evans' hot new Channel 4 show Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, where he kept the audiences lively for two series.

Allin wrote a solo stand-up cabaret show Sex Handcuffs and Rubber Chickens which gained sell out audiences at the Edinburgh Festival, the Independent newspaper labelling him "The best of the Edinburgh Festival". No stranger to awards by now, Allin also won the Tap Water Award for new comedy, a non-corporate rival to the famous Perrier award.

Allin was now gigging regularly all over the UK as a comedy juggler and magician, proving himself to be a popular hit at corporate functions and toured Spain as the novelty juggler act at the Marberissa Comedy Festival.

Teaming with edgy comedian David Woolf he performed as the lively and dangerous double act The Fabulous Trouser Brothers at clubs and festivals. Allin also created the character of Dweebie the Robot Comedian, which was a hugely popular character on the corporate circuit and which he performed a number of times on television, including pioneering cable channel L!VE TV plus an appearance on Blue Peter.

As a television presenter Allin travelled to the USA, Germany, Russia and Georgia to film the television special Juggling At The Barricades for American television. He also became a radio presenter with a nightly comedy and music show on Silver FM.

As an actor allin performed in a UK arena tour of the opera Aida, including a three week residency at the Royal Albert Hall. He became a regular character villain in pantomimes and entered the world of television and film, winning the role of the younger Derek Jakobi as Charles Dickens in the feature film The Riddle. He played Cripple Wa in the film version of Terry Pratchett's The Colour Of Magic with Sir David Jason and spent a month working with Ralph Fiennes and director David Cronenberg on the dark drama Spider.
He appeared onstage with comedian Lee Evans at the O2 Arena for the recording of his Big DVD and In 2011 put his circus background to good use playing the clown Mr Rhubarb alongside Rowan Atkinson in the film Johnny English Reborn.

Throughout all of this Allin and his writing partner (and wife) Pamela Kempthorne were writing the screenplay for a comedy feature film The Vampires of Bloody Island. The film was made by Wibbell Productions with Allin directing and also and starring. The film has been picked up around the world and has gained a significant global cult following, pushing Allin's name into the limelight in vampire circles.

In the last few years Allin has been touring the world as a presenter for corporate gameshows including the USA, Dubai, The Netherlands, Greece, Turkey, Denmark, Norway, the UK, France and South Africa. As a writer he travelled to Atlanta in the USA to write and present a gameshow on the tricky subject of cancer. He directed a comedy gameshow for children in Dubai and in 2011 was appointed as casting director for a government educational program in the gulf state of Qatar. He continues to be busy as a children's comedy performer at live events around the country.

Allin Kempthorne is equally busy as a comedy and children's writer, actor and corporate performer and is always looking for ways to push himself into new strange and wonderful experiences and to build on his many talents.

His new challenge for 2012 has been to throw himself into the world of stand up comedy, something he's been dying to do for a long time. He is also currently in production writing and presenting a four part miniseries The First Stars of Vaudeville for Wibbell Productions.