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Name: Jim Sweeney  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 7th February 1955
   
Place of Birth: Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Jim Sweeney (left) and comedy partner Steve Steen (right)

Jim Sweeney is a British comedian, writer and actor. He is a member of The Comedy Store's Comedy Store Players team, which regularly performs improvised comedy both within the club and around the world. He has also written several plays and appeared in numerous television programmes. He was one member of the British alternative comedy revolution in the 1970/80s.

Sweeney was a regular on the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and also appeared in Blackadder. Additionally, he has had a variety of radio comedy roles, including the improvised faux drama show, The Masterson Inheritance.

Since 1985, Sweeney has suffered from Multiple sclerosis, something which from early 2005 has caused him to use a wheelchair. However, he continues to perform, write and act. He wrote about this experiences of MS in My MS and Me, a play he performed for BBC Radio 4's Friday Play after a successful Edinburgh Festival run.

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