Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson voices Murray on "Poochini's Yard".

Following his 2nd marriage in 1992, he's alternated between the credits, Rowan "Mr. Bean" Atkinson.

Early Life
Atkinson, the youngest of four brothers, was born in Consett, County Durham, England, on 6 January 1955.

His parents were Eric Atkinson, a farmer and company director, and Ella May, who married on 29 June 1945. His three older brothers are Paul, who died as an infant; Rodney, a Eurosceptic economist who narrowly lost the UK Independence Party leadership election in 2000 and Rupert.

Atkinson was brought up Anglican, and was educated at Durham Choristers School, a preparatory school, St Bees School, and Newcastle University, where he received a degree in Electrical Engineering. In 1975, he continued for the degree of MSc in Electrical Engineering at The Queen's College, Oxford, the same college where his father matriculated in 1935, and which made Atkinson an Honorary Fellow in 2006.

First winning national attention in The Oxford Revue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 1976, he had already written and performed sketches for shows in Oxford by the Etceteras — the revue group of the Experimental Theatre Club, and for the Oxford University Dramatic Society, meeting writer Richard Curtis, and composer Howard Goodall, with whom he would continue to collaborate during his career.

Trivia

 * Rowan Atkinson is the oldest of the cast members in the Poochini's Yard series.