Despite a popular role on the soap "EastEnders" and a guest vocal on the Blur single "Parklife," at 53 he is both a British national treasure and a frustrated, formally trained actor.
"When I'm working alongside someone like Dame Maggie Smith, I can't help thinking 'I don't deserve to be here.' You see these formally trained actors with scripts covered in writing, whereas mine will be covered in coffee stains and fag burns.
He is, however, partnered with Cyd Charisse, a formally trained ballerina.
"Of course Paul isn't a formally trained musician, but he's a natural, a primal musician," he wrote.
Moinet, a formally trained artist and amateur astronomer, made clocks for Napoleon, czars, kings and American presidents.
As the name suggests, she's not a formally trained artist, instead, she's all about instinct.
Only in 1975 was a formally trained wine maker hired.
Bush, of course, is not a formally trained painter, raising the question of whether he is an outsider artist.
Nearly 80% reported that they were unattended by a formally trained professional.
Overall, only 7.8%% of customers were diagnosed by a formally trained person.
A classically trained actor, with Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare and pantomime under his belt, Mr. Edden lacks the formal clowning training you might expect in an actor playing Alfie.
