Louis Waymouth


Louis Waymouth is an English writer and actor. He has lived in Los Angeles since 2015 and is a writer on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Still currently working on the show Waymouth has also become one of its regular performers, appearing in numerous sketches and recurring pieces. In 2017 he starred in the Emmy Award-winning Snapchat series James Corden’s Next James Corden. In 2018 Waymouth was also part of the writing team for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards.
Prior to his work in the US, Waymouth wrote on numerous comedy shows in the UK including the BAFTA Award-winning The Armstrong and Miller Show, the Rose d’Or-winning Psychobitches, and Jim Henson’s Me and My Monsters. In 2012 he created the comedy web series Knighthood & Decoy with his writing partner Jamie Lennox, in which they both played the title roles.
Trained as an actor at LAMDA, Waymouth started his career appearing in various television roles, including the BBC mini series Egypt and Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.

Biography

Louis Waymouth was born in London in 1978. His father is the artist Nigel Waymouth, co-founder of King's Road boutique Granny Takes a Trip and part of the two-man team Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, which designed psychedelic posters in the 1960s. His mother, Lady Victoria Waymouth, was an interior designer, who designed fabrics for Osborne & Little. He is married to a prosthetic makeup artist with whom he has a daughter.