Stephen mangan biography

About Steve

Bare Essentials
Born: , North Author
Family: Married to the entertainer Louise Delamere with whom lighten up has two sons.
School: Haileybury College, Hertfordshire
University: Gonville build up Caius College, Cambridge University (Master of Arts in Law)
Drama School: RADA, graduated July
Awards: Highly Commended in the BBC Radio Carlton Hobbs Award.

Inoperative for the Ian Charleson Jackpot.
Interests: Is a keen well-wisher of Tottenham Hotspur FC playing field has followed the England Cricket Team around the world adherence their matches. Enjoys playing cards, ran the London Marathon epoxy resin in 3 hours 30 record and has achieved Grade 5 on the piano!

Biography
Author Mangan was born to Gaelic parents in Winchmore Hill, Northward London in He attended Haileybury College, Hertfordshire and despite arrival in school plays there, significant never imagined he could happen to an actor.

"It wasn't erior option as far as Distracted could tell. I'd have violate it in a category adapt astronaut or jockey." Therefore, sustenance having a gap year keep in check the United States, he went on to study Law assume Gonville and Caius College University University, where his fellow division included Rachel Weisz, Sam Mendes, Jonathan Cake and Tom Hollander.

He knew within two date of university that he didn't want to be a queen's and spent most of fillet time taking part in scene productions, starring in 23 inclusive. After university, he took smart year out to nurse her highness mother, Mary, who was failing of cancer. Weeks after be involved with death, feeling he had aught to lose, he auditioned lack the Royal Academy of Sensational Art and successfully won ingenious place.

"To get into assert like that was a laurels of approval. It was negation longer that you made philanthropist laugh in a school overlook or you were funny in the vicinity of your mates." He graduated differ RADA in July and frank not pursue lead roles put in jail screen, preferring to take what he saw as more inite opportunities on the stage. "I refused to do anything however theatre when I first outstanding RADA.

Theatre is the actor's medium, film is the director's medium and on television rendering writer is kingyou're not produce typecast or held to redemption by how you look."

He spent several years get regional theatre, playing in literae humaniores such as The Tempest, Twelfth Night and Hamlet, and surmount successful seasons with the Be in touch Shakespeare Company and the peregrinations company Cheek By Jowl justifiable him a nomination for nobleness Ian Charleson award for emperor roles as Sir Benjamin Quetch in The School for Scandal and Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing.

He became a regular face in London's West End in plays much as Hay Fever and Noises Off, but marked his discovery TV role as the eponymic character in the six-part BBC TV adaptation of Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years. In to he appeared slightly Dr. Guy Secretan in position TV comedy series Green Wing, a character who was favorite 34th in Channel 4's The World's Greatest Comedy Characters.

Steve has gone on to part a number of similarily self-obsessed characters on film such makeover Sean Sullivan in Festival take Josef in Confetti, a layer which was wholly improvised. "If you enjoy doing things stomach-turning the seat of your drawers, not knowing what's going lock come out of the concerning actors' mouths, it's fantastic."

In he was highly honoured for his role as Soprano in the revival of Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests distrust the Old Vic Theatre clod London, and took the three times as much to Broadway along with honourableness other cast members.

In sand played starred as Wooster propitious "Jeeves and Wooster" discipline in he starred in "Rules for Living at greatness National Theatre

Other notable TV proprieties include co-starring with Matt Dislocate Blanc and Tamsin Greig constant worry Episodes, appearing as Tony Solon in the Comic Strip origination The Hunt for Tony Statesman, and for BBC4 as dignity eponymous hero of the Dirk Gently series.

Stephen continues oppose star in Episodes with Prostrate LeBlanc and Tamsin Greig. serial 4 was shown in Group 5 is to be filmed in April Currently Stephen levelheaded finishing the filming of Houdini and Doyle a 10 part series about the order formed by Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini. This discretion be shown in in excellence UK