
Let us get to know Richard Ayoade’s parents whose identity has been revealed as Dagny Baasuik Ayoade and Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade.
Richard Ayoade is a British comedian, actor, broadcaster, and filmmaker. He played the role of socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd (2006–2013), for which he won the 2014 BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance.
Ayoade served as the Footlights club’s president from 1998 to 1999 while a student at the University of Cambridge. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2000, he and Matthew Holness debuted their respective personas, Dean Learner and Garth Marenghi.
The characters were later adapted for television in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (2004) and Man to Man with Dean Learner (2006). He had guest appearances in the comedies Nathan Barley (2005) and The Mighty Boosh (2004–2007). After helming music videos for bands like Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, he wrote and directed Submarine (2010), a comedy-drama that was based on the Joe Dunthorne novel from 2008.
Three comedy books about movies have been written by Ayoade: Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey (2014), The Grip of Film (2017), and Ayoade on Top (2019). He is currently working on a picture book titled The Fairy Tale Fan Club after penning the children’s book The Book That No One Wanted to Read (2022).
He claims to have been “obsessed” with The Catcher in the Rye while attending the independent St. Joseph’s College in Ipswich. He became so preoccupied with the book that he began to dress as Holden Caulfield, the main character.
Ayoade studied law at St Catharine’s College in Cambridge from 1995 to 1998. While there, he produced plays and served as president of the amateur theatre group Footlights. He was awarded the Martin Steele Prize for playwriting. Together with Footlights vice president John Oliver, he co-wrote and appeared in various performances, including the touring productions of Between a Rock and a Hard Place (directed by Cal McCrystal) and Emotional Baggage (directed by Matthew Holness) for Footlights in 1997 and 1998, respectively.
Ayoade claims that his parents would disapprove of subjects that are regarded as being from the “Regency era” and that “a non-vocational degree seemed such an outlandish indulgence”. He stated that he would need to “go back to square one” and that his legal degree was no longer a practical “fallback” for him.
Richard Ayoade parents: Meet Dagny Baasuik Ayoade and Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade
Richard Ayoade was born to a Norwegian mother and a Nigerian father. His mother’s name is Dagny Baasuik Ayoade while his Naija father goes by the name Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade. When he was a little child, the family moved to Ipswich.
He became interested in cinema “beyond Star Wars and Back to the Future” when he was 15 and started studying the films of Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini. He attended Ipswich’s independent St. Joseph’s College.
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