Andrew Marr's Biography
Andrew William Stevenson Marr was born on the 31st July, 1959, in Glasgow, Scotland.
He is married to British journalist, Jackie Ashley and lives in London with his 3 children.
Andrew Marr went to the High School of Dundee, Craigflower School and Loretto School in Musselburgh.
He studied English at Trinity Hall, in Cambridge, before he became a junior business reporter for the Scotsman at the age of 22.
Andrew Marr moved up the ranks and in 1984 he became a parliamentary correspondent, later, in 1986 he became a political correspondent.
He worked for 2 years at the Independent before being appointed as a political editor for the Economist in 1988.
He returned to the Independent in 1992 as the chief political correspondent and in 1996 he was promoted to editor.
In 1995 he had won the Columnist of the Year award in the British Press Awards and in the What the Papers Say Awards.
After he left the Independent in 1998, Andrew Marr wrote for The Daily Express, The Economist and The Observer and in 2000 he took over as the BBC’s Political Editor which was his job until 2005
Andrew Marr's books include: The Battle For Scotland (Penguin, 1992); Ruling Britannia (Penguin, 1996, 1998); The Day Britain Died (Profile, 2000) and My Trade (Macmillan, 2004).
In 2005, he started a new programme (replacing Breakfast With Frost) called Sunday AM (later becoming The Andrew Marr Show) which goes out every Sunday morning on BBC 1. He also presents the BBC radio programme, Start the Week.
Marr is known for his enthusiastic arm movements and his big ears, but strangely he is often mistaken for President Putin of Russia. Once, when he was lost on the way to a briefing at the Kremlin, he ran into 2 guards, but instead of arresting him, they looked alarmed and immediately saluted him.
Some of Marr's hobbies are reading, painting and he's also an enthusiastic chef. When writing certain columns of the Daily Telegraph, he uses the pseudonym Mr. Snuffles, his pet guinea pig. When writing in this form, he uses frequent misspellings and writes solely in lower-case.
In 2007, Andrew Marr wrote A History of Modern Britain with an accompanying 5 part TV series on the BBC.
Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain won a Bafta for best specialist factual series.
His other TV credits include presenting Prime Ministers, Britain From Above and Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
Andrew Marr biography by Ben Rosenbaum
