Niall Ashdown is an English comedian, actor, improvisor and writer.
He has previously improvised in such television shows as Lifegame, Animo, Improbable Tales at the Nottingham Playhouse, Impropera and with the Comedy Store Players.
[2] Ashdown has also appeared in Chambers, Swiss Toni, Outnumbered and, as writer/performer, Barking and Confessions.
He is also the voice of Match of the Day's Thunderbird puppet Alan Hansen.
Ashdown played Henry Purcell in Clare Norburn’s Burying The Dead at the Brighton Early Music Festival.