Richard Ayoade Children: Meet Esmé Ayoade and Ida Ayoade
Matthew Underwood
Updated on March 08, 2026
Esmé Ayoade and Ida Ayoade are children of popular actor, Richard Ayoade. They were all born to Lydia Fox.
Richard Ayoade started his career in 2000. He co-wrote the stage show Garth Marenghi’s Fright Knight with Matthew Holness, whom he also met at the Footlights. appearing in the show with the Holness at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000 where it was nominated for the Perrier Award.
The show saw the debut of Holness’ character Garth Marenghi, a fictional horror writer, and Ayoade’s character Dean Learner, Marenghi’s publisher. In 2001, he won the Perrier Comedy Award for co-writing and performing in Garth Marenghi’s Nethrhead, the sequel to Fright Knight.
In 2004, he was also a writer on the sketch show Bruiser in 2000, which starred former Footlights president David Mitchell and Robert Webb and featured Holness. Ayoade was featured in a bit-part as a reporter in the HBO television film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004).
He was also part of the original cast of Barratt and Fielding’s The Mighty Boosh television show. He was originally selected to play the role of dangerous villain Dixon Bainbridge.
