Edward Maurice Charles Marsan was born on 9 June 1968 and is an English actor.
14 Facts About Eddie Marsan
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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.
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Eddie Marsan has featured in films such as Gangster No 1, Ultimate Force, V for Vendetta, Mission: Impossible III, Sixty Six, Hancock, Sherlock Holmes, War Horse, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, The Best of Men, The World's End, Still Life, and The Exception.
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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.
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Eddie Marsan was brought up in Bethnal Green and attended Raine's Foundation School.
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Eddie Marsan left school at 16 and initially served an apprenticeship as a printer, before beginning his career in theatre.
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Eddie Marsan trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 1991, and went on to study under Sam Kogan and the Kogan Academy of Dramatic Arts, now known as The School of the Science of Acting, of which Marsan is a patron.
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Eddie Marsan went on to have roles in Casualty, The Bill, Grass, Kavanagh QC, Grange Hill, Silent Witness, Ultimate Force, Southcliffe, and more.
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Eddie Marsan voiced the Manticore in the Merlin episode "Love in the Time of Dragons".
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Eddie Marsan's roles include the main villain in the 2008 superhero film Hancock alongside Will Smith and as Inspector Lestrade in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes.
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In 2021, Eddie Marsan appeared as anti-Fascist activist Soly Malinovsky in the television adaptation of the novel Ridley Road.
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In 2022, Eddie Marsan played the real-life role of John Darwin, in The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe.
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In January 2023, it was announced that Eddie Marsan was added to the cast of the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black and would be playing Winehouse's father Mitch Winehouse.
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Eddie Marsan is a humanist and was appointed a patron of Humanists UK in 2015.