13 Facts About Eddie Marsan

Edward Maurice Charles Marsan was born on 9 June 1968 and is an English actor.

Eddie Marsan won the London Film Critics Circle Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Happy-Go-Lucky.

Eddie Marsan was born on 9 June 1968 in the Stepney district of London to a working-class family; his father was a lorry driver and his mother was a school dinner lady and teacher's assistant.

Eddie Marsan was brought up in Bethnal Green and attended Raine's Foundation School.

Eddie Marsan left school at 16 and initially served an apprenticeship as a printer before beginning his career in theatre.

Eddie Marsan trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 1991, and went on to study under Sam Kogan at the Kogan Academy of Dramatic Arts, now known as The School of the Science of Acting, of which Marsan is a patron.

Eddie Marsan went on to have roles in Casualty, The Bill, Grass, Kavanagh QC, Grange Hill, Silent Witness, Ultimate Force, Southcliffe, and more.

Eddie Marsan voiced the Manticore in the Merlin episode "Love in the Time of Dragons".

In 2021, Eddie Marsan appeared as anti-Fascist activist Soly Malinovsky in the television adaptation of the novel Ridley Road.

Eddie Marsan appeared as Mitch Winehouse, father of Amy Winehouse, in the biopic Back to Black, which was released in 2024.

Eddie Marsan is a humanist and was appointed a patron of Humanists UK in 2015.

Eddie Marsan was critical of the lack of representation of working-class people in the arts in 2015 on BBC Radio 5 Live in which he stated too much drama is written from "the white, privileged, middle class perspective".

Eddie Marsan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2025 New Year Honours for service to drama.