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Nick Mohammed
Mohammed in 2023
Born	Nicholas George Mohammed (1980-10-04) 4 October 1980 (age 44) Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Education	Durham University (BSc)
Occupations	Actor comedian writer
Years active	2006–present
Spouse	Becka ​(m. 2014)​
Children	3

Nicholas George Mohammed (born 4 October 1980) is a British actor, comedian and writer. He has portrayed his character Mr. Swallow across both stage and television for over a decade. He is also the creator of the Sky One comedy series Intelligence. Mohammed portrayed the character of Nathan Shelley in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, for which he was nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category at the 73rd and 74th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Early life

Mohammed was born on 4 October 1980 in Leeds, West Yorkshire. His mother was a Cyprus-born general practitioner and his Trinidad-born father worked in law. He was educated at Abbey Grange High School. He reportedly turned down an offer from Cambridge University and chose Durham University, where he was a member of St Aidan's College and played violin in the university orchestra. He had auditioned for the Durham Revue twice but failed to get in and instead frequented the local comedy circuit. His interest in comedy prompted him to audition for the Footlights, which he did successfully.

Career

Mohammed has featured in the second series of BBC One's Reggie Perrin and was a co-presenter in BBC Three comedy series The King Is Dead alongside Simon Bird and Katy Wix. He has made guest appearances in Pete & Dud: The Lost Sketches, Miranda, How Not to Live Your Life and Life's Too Short, and has appeared in Series 2 Episode 4 of the BBC Radio 4 musical comedy show Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section.

Following his hit BBC Radio 4 debut (Quarters), Mohammed's second series Nick Mohammed in Bits attracted further critical acclaim. Mohammed was a cast member of BAFTA-nominated CBBC sketch show Sorry, I've Got No Head and supported Angelos Epithemiou (as one of his radio show characters, Mr. Swallow) on his 2010 national tour. He has had a supporting role in all three seasons of C4 comedy series Drifters. Mohammed has also developed The Mr. Swallow Show for BBC Television and is writing and starring in an original comedy-drama Magic for Channel 4 as part of the Coming Up Scheme. He also appears in the new CBBC show Hank Zipzer as Mr. Love. He made a guest appearance in the final episode of series 1 and first episode of series 2 of Uncle.

In 2015, he joined the cast of ITV comedy The Job Lot. He has written and starred in two series of 'Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed', a comedy set in a police station, for BBC Radio 4.

In 2018, he voiced Piglet in the Disney film Christopher Robin. In 2018, it was announced that he would collaborate on a new comedy series titled Intelligence with David Schwimmer for Sky One.

In 2019, Mohammed appeared in the second series of Stath Lets Flats.

From 2020 to 2023, Mohammed starred as Nathan "Nate" Shelley in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso which ran for three seasons on Apple TV+.

In 2023, Mohammed starred as a police officer in the film Maggie Moore(s), alongside Jon Hamm and Tina Fey.

Mohammed was a contestant on the seventeenth series of the Channel 4 show Taskmaster which launched in March 2024.

In November 2024, Mohammed opened A Christmas Carol (ish) at @sohoplace in London's West End for a Christmas run until 31 December 2024. The show is a re-telling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol with Mr. Swallow as the protagonist, also starring Martha Howe-Douglas, David Elms and Kieran Hodgson. Mohammed originally developed the show at Soho Theatre in 2022.

In 2025 he will tour the UK as Mr. Swallow in brand-new live show, Show Pony.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

Personal life

Mohammed learned to play the violin as a child and played it in his university orchestra, at St Aidan’s College at Durham University. There he met his wife, Becca, whom he married in 2014. Together they have 3 children: sons, Finn and Arthur, and an unnamed daughter.

References

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External links

• Nick Mohammed at IMDb
• Nick Mohammed on Spotlight

• 1980 births
• Living people
• 20th-century English male actors
• 21st-century English male actors
• Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
• Alumni of St Aidan's College, Durham
• English male comedians
• English male film actors
• English male television actors
• English male voice actors
• Male actors from Leeds
• Comedians from Leeds
• English people of Indo-Trinidadian descent
• English people of Cypriot descent
• 21st-century English comedians