George Fouracres

Languages

English, German, Italian

Styles

Actor, Animated, Comedian, Narrative, Neutral, Singer, Versatile, Warm

Accent

Midlands, Black Country

George is an actor, comedian and writer from the Black Country.

He is currently performing as Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. He was a member of the Globe Ensemble from 2021-22, performing as Flute/Puck/Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Stephano in The Tempest and Hamlet in Hamlet.

George is the third member of sketch group Daphne, with Jason Forbes and Phil Wang. Daphne were nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer in 2015.

George is a regular performer on BBC Radio 4 and 4extra, (The Lenny Henry Show, The Now Show, Newsjack, Ross Noble’s Britain in Bits). He performed in and co-created Daphne Sounds Expensive, which ran for two series on BBC Radio 4 from 2016-17.

On TV he is the voice of Grolton & Hovris in Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (Channel 4), voiced Prince Harry and others on Spitting Image (Britbox), and has played Charlie in Raised By Wolves (Channel 4), Henry Bloyd Smith in Pls Like (BBC Three), and made his US TV debut in 2019 as the villainous Hugh Cabot in Whiskey Cavalier (ABC).

He has also featured in Semi-Detached (BBC 2), Drunk History (Comedy Central), Harry Hill’s Tea Time (Sky), @elevenish (ITV2) and The Scandalous Lady W (BBC 1). In 2022 he made his movie debut as Dante Zuuzer in Scott Adkins’ award-winning martial arts masterpiece Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday.

In 2019, he performed his debut stand-up hour, Gentlemon, at the Edinburgh Fringe, which was subsequently recorded for BBC Radio 4 in 2022.