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Ian Kelly
Actor and popular TV historian, Ian Kelly is an award-winning biographer, and acclaimed film and stage actor.
His unique background includes a specialist interest in food history and fashion, but instantly identifiable as both Hermione's dad in the last of Harry Potter films and the lead in the Broadway-bound National Theatre comedy hit, Lee Hall's Pitmen Painters.
A Sunday Times Biographer of the Year (for his internationally acclaimed new take on Casanova) Ian is also a well known face from his series on the History of Food for Richard and Judy:A Taste of the Past and many other TV appearances on BBC Good Food Live, Market Kitchen, and Supersizers with Giles Coren and Sue Perkins.
Ian has lectured and given after-dinner speeches in venues as diverse as The Smithsonian in New York, the V&A Museum, on cruise ships, and literary festivals all over the world.
Talks and lectures include:
Casanova and the Art of Success: Lessons in surviving in style from the world’s greatest lover.
Ian's 2008 biography of the legendary lover uncovered startling new evidence on Casanova - as a food writer, Kaballist...but also as a philosopher on the art of suceeding in life (not just in love).
Cooking for Kings: the career of the First Celebrity Chef
(The subject of Ian's bestselling biography), a new perspective on the culinary arts and business from the point of view of the man who began it all cooking for Napoleon and then at the Brighton Pavilion; can be mounted with period-food-cooking demonstration.
Beau Brummell: Sex, Scandal and the rag trade: The Man who invented the Suit
(The subject of Ian's bestselling biography), the only globally successful export of the British Empire was The Suit. It was invented by one man: Beau Brummell; the most famous man in Regency England: the original Mr Darcy. A tale of sex, scandal, shopping - and everything Jane Austen never told you about what really went on in the Regency West End.
For more information please visit Ian’s personal website: www.iankelly.net
TESTIMONIALS
”Ian Kelly gave one of the wittiest and most informative talks we have ever had V&A Museum”
THE V&A
”His talk on Brummell was a scandalous delight: it has changed forever the way I'll think about Georgian England”
JANE AUSTEN FESTIVAL
”A lavish feast of a Christmas lecture; utterly without notes, utterly charmed our sponsors”
CURATOR, BRIGHTON PAVILION
PRESS
”Ian Kelly: the Dirk Bogarde or Sam Sheperd of the kitchen – I was truly bowled over!”
THE TIMES
”All the wonders of an incomparable age touched on with mastery and wit”
STEPHEN FRY
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