Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly, CBE (born William Connolly, Jr. on the 24 November, 1942, in Anderston, Glesga) is a Scots comedian, actor, muisicker, an presenter. He is whiles kent in his native Scotland bi the eikname The Big Yin.

In the early 1960s, Connolly's first tred wis as a welder (specifically a bylermakker) in the Glesgae shipyerds, but he gied it up at the end o the decade sae's he cud be a fowk singer. In the middle o the 1970s, he chynged career again, this time becomin a comedian, a role that he held at til 2018.^[1] Forby, he is a penter an a actor, an haes appeart in films the likes o Indecent Proposal (1993) an Mrs. Brown (1997), that he wis nominatit for a BAFTA for.

1. ↑ "Billy Connolly announces retirement from live performance". The Guardian (in Inglis). 3 December 2018. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2021.