Jim Broadbent has refused to ever pretend to be anything other than himself.
== Career ===== 1980s ===Broadbent's early stagework included a number of productions for The National Theatre of Brent as the downtrodden assistant Wallace to Patrick Barlow's self-important actor-manager character Desmond Olivier Dingle
 Since 2016, Broadbent narrates Kevin the Carrot Christmas adverts for the UK branch of Aldi

