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Tom Basden (b. England, 1981) is a British actor and comedy writer .

He is a member of the British four man sketch group Cowards. He has written and performed extensively for comedy shows on the BBC and Channel 4 and often colloborates in two man shows with fellow Cowards member Tim Key.

Basden was educated at King's College School (in the same year group as actors Khalid Abdalla and Ben Barnes) and read English at Cambridge University, where he was Vice President of the Cambridge Footlights.

Basden's one man show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Tom Basden Won't Say Anything won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer. He also starred with Tim Key in the short film The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island, which won the UK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short Film.