His great-grandmother fled the Irish Famine and was adopted by a wealthy English family. Palin is of English and Irish Catholic heritage he has ancestral roots in Letterkenny, County Donegal. His sister Angela was nine years his senior despite the age gap the two had a close relationship until her suicide in 1987. Palin was educated at Birkdale and Shrewsbury School. His maternal grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lockhart Ovey, DSO, was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1927. His father was a Shrewsbury and Cambridge-educated engineer working for a steel firm. Palin was born in Ranmoor, Sheffield, the second child and only son of Edward Moreton Palin (1900–1977) and Mary Rachel Lockhart (née Ovey 1903–1990). From 2009 to 2012 he was President of the Royal Geographical Society.
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His journeys have taken him across the world, including the North and South Poles, the Sahara, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe, and Brazil in 2018, he visited North Korea, documenting his visit to the isolated country in a series broadcast on Channel 5. He has acted as a travel writer and travel documentarian in programmes broadcast on the BBC. Since 1980, Palin has made numerous television travel documentaries, and is a widely recognised writer and presenter. Other notable films include Jabberwocky (1977), Time Bandits (1981), The Missionary (1982), A Private Function (1984), Brazil (1985), Fierce Creatures (1997), and The Death of Stalin (2017).
For his performance in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Palin co-wrote and starred in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983). Palin continued to work with Jones away from Python, co-writing Ripping Yarns. He acted in some of the most famous Python sketches, including " Argument Clinic", " Dead Parrot sketch", " The Lumberjack Song", " The Spanish Inquisition", " Bicycle Repair Man" and " The Fish-Slapping Dance". Palin joined Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974) alongside John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Graham Chapman. Palin started in television working on programs such as including the Ken Dodd Show, The Frost Report, and Do Not Adjust Your Set.
He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2013 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2019. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. Sir Michael Edward Palin KCMG CBE FRGS FRSGS FRSL ( / ˈ p eɪ l ɪ n/ born ) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter.
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