In 1992, Norton's stand-up comedy drag act as a tea-towel-clad Mother Teresa of Calcutta in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe made the press when Scottish Television's religious affairs department mistakenly thought he represented the real Mother Teresa. Upon joining the actors' union Equity, he chose Norton (his great-grandmother's maiden name) as his new surname as there was already an actor called Graham Walker represented by the union. He also worked as a waiter during that time. In the late 1980s, he moved to London to attend the Central School of Speech and Drama. He later received an honorary doctorate from the university in 2013. Norton was educated at Bandon Grammar School in County Cork and then University College Cork, where he spent two years studying English and French in the 1980s, but did not complete his studies after having a breakdown and refusing to leave his flat. He discovered during a 2007 episode of the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? that his father's direct ancestors were English, having originated in Yorkshire before emigrating to Ireland in 1713. His father's family were from County Wicklow, while his mother is a native of Belfast. He grew up in a Protestant ( Church of Ireland) family in the town of Bandon, County Cork, which he has said made him feel somewhat isolated.
Norton was born Graham William Walker on 4 April 1963 at 48, St Brigid's Road, in Clondalkin, County Dublin, Ireland to William "Billy" (died 2000), a sales representative for Guinness, and Rhoda Walker. In 2019, he became a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race UK. In 2012, he sold his production company So Television to ITV for around £17 million. Prior to establishing himself as a presenter, Norton appeared as Father Noel Furlong in three episodes of the multiple award-winning Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. He has been noted for his innuendo-laden dialogue and flamboyant presentation style. Since 2009, he has served as the BBC's television commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest, which led Hot Press to describe him as "the 21st century's answer to Terry Wogan". In 2021, he began presenting on Saturdays and Sundays on Virgin Radio UK.
įrom 2010 to 2020, Norton presented the Saturday-morning slot on BBC Radio 2. Originally shown on BBC Two before moving to other slots on BBC One, his chat show succeeded Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in BBC One's prestigious late-Friday-evening slot in 2010. Well known for his work in the UK, he is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show (2007–present) and an eight-time award-winner overall-he received the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance three times for So Graham Norton (2000 to 2002).
Graham William Walker (born 4 April 1963), better known by his stage name Graham Norton, is an Irish- british actor, author, comedian, commentator, and presenter.
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