Bear Grylls
Acting
Born 1974-06-07
Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
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Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls (born 7 June 1974) is a British adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild (2006–2011), originally titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls in the United Kingdom.
Grylls is also involved in a number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and US. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout in the UK at age 35.
Grylls was born in Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland.He grew up in Donaghadee until the age of four, when his family moved to Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.
He is the son of Conservative politician Sir Michael Grylls, who was implicated in the cash-for-questions affair, and Lady Sarah Grylls. Lady Grylls is the daughter of politician Patricia Ford, briefly an Ulster Unionist Party MP, and cricketer and businessman Neville Ford. Grylls has one sibling, an elder sister, Lara Fawcett, a cardio-tennis coach, who gave him the nickname 'Bear' when he was a week old.
Grylls was educated at Ludgrove School and Eton College, where he helped start its first mountaineering club, and Birkbeck, University of London, where he graduated with a degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic studies in 2002. He graduated from the University of West of England.
From an early age, he learned to climb and sail with his father, who was a member of the prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron. As a teenager, he learned to skydive and earned a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate. At age eight he became a Cub Scout. He speaks English, Spanish, and French. He is a Christian, and has described his faith as the "backbone" in his life.
Grylls married Shara Cannings Knight in 2000. They have three sons. In August 2015, it was reported that Grylls had deserted his young son, Jesse, on Saint Tudwal's Island along the North Wales coast, as the tide approached, leaving him to be rescued by the RNLI. The RNLI later criticised him for the stunt, saying its crew "had not appreciated" that a child would be involved.
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Filmography
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Acting
51 credits
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Graham Norton Show
Top Gear
Hot Ones
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The One Show
Tamron Hall
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
8 Out of 10 Cats
The Jonathan Ross Show
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Made in Hollywood
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
Man vs. Wild
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
Arthur the King
Celebrity Bear Hunt
My View with Lara Trump
The Island with Bear Grylls
Hostile Planet
Bear Grylls is Running Wild
The Chosen in the Wild with Bear Grylls
You vs. Wild
Louis Theroux Interviews
Finding Michael
Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls
The Michael McIntyre Chat Show
Bear Grylls: Mission Survive
World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji
Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls
The Island
The Sidemen Show
Escape to the Legion
Bear Grylls: Mission Everest
Bear Grylls: Extreme Survival Caught on Camera
Bear Grylls - Wild Reckoning
Bear's Mission with...
Bear Grylls: Escape From Hell
The Coronation Concert
Man vs Wild with Sunny Leone
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Endangered
Miracle
Jesus: Refugee, Renegade, Redeemer with Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls: Breaking Point
I Survived Bear Grylls
Bear's Wild Weekend with...
Bear Grylls: Man vs Everest
Other credits
8 credits
Who Do You Think You Are?
Voice
Absolute Wild China with Bear Grylls
Into the Wild with Bear Grylls & Rajinikanth
Into The Wild With Bear Grylls & Ajay Devgn
Into the Wild with Bear Grylls & Akshay Kumar
Worst-Case Scenario
You vs. Wild: Out Cold
Producing
5 credits
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
Hostile Planet
The Chosen in the Wild with Bear Grylls
Finding Michael
Bear Grylls: Escape From Hell
Writing
4 credits
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge
The Chosen in the Wild with Bear Grylls
Survivor Games with Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls, Young Adventurer: Endangered
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