- Born
- Birth nameNicholas Simon Lyndhurst
- Height6′ 1½″ (1.87 m)
- Nicholas Lyndhurst was born on April 20, 1961 in Emsworth, Hampshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Only Fools and Horses (1981), Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) and Rock & Chips (2010). He has been married to Lucy Smith since September 1, 1999. They have one child.
- SpouseLucy Smith(September 1, 1999 - present) (1 child)
- Children
- Always before a live studio recording of Only Fools and Horses (1981), Lyndhurst and David Jason used to go to the canteen and have the same meal, almost like a ritual or a superstition, because they used to get so nervous.
- Once, he and David Jason brought a bag full of bangers into rehearsals for Only Fools and Horses (1981); they loaded the stacked chairs with them and the cubicle doors in the toilets. When production assistant Tony Dow unstacked the chairs, they went off, making him afraid to touch them. Jason and Lyndhurst thought it funny until a cleaning lady tried to mop the gents and nearly died of fright. They never pulled that prank again.
- He has no interest in the showbiz scene, avoiding parties and social events in favor of diving, which is his life-long passion.
- When he did a series of adverts for WH Smith a few years ago in which he played an entire family of four, he admitted to enjoying playing the mum best.
- He is the result of an affair his mother had with a married man. He admits that he used to be shy of marriage as his father treated his mother very badly but took the plunge with his long-term girlfriend, Lucy
- I can't think of Only Fools... (Only Fools and Horses (1981)) without smiling - if it can make you smile after 30 years, that's good.
- Up until he was about six, Archie didn't know what I did for a living. I used to take him to Woolworths and we'd walk past the DVD section where there'd be pictures of me in Only Fools... or Goodnight Sweetheart (1993). He just thought there was a picture of everybody's daddy there!
- [on Rock & Chips (2010)] If it had had the trappings of a sitcom I would probably have stayed away. If it had been filmed in front of a studio audience and if it had been too similar to Only Fools.... But it's all shot on film, with a lot of location work, and it's period stuff. This is a drama with some funny bits, as far as I'm concerned.
- [he and David Jason getting nervous before a recording of Only Fools and Horses] Why do we do this to ourselves?
- We used to rehearse Fools and Horses in a brown, concrete, soulless tower block that overlooked an industrial estate in North Acton and John Sullivan made it the happiest workplace on the planet.
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