1. Kenneth Campbell Stott was born on 19 October 1954 and is a Scottish stage, television and film actor who won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1995 in the play Broken Glass at Royal National Theatre.
16 Facts About Ken Stott
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Ken Stott portrayed the dwarf Balin in The Hobbit film trilogy.
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Ken Stott played Edward 'Eddie' McKenna in the Scottish BBC miniseries Takin' Over The Asylum co-starring with David Tennant, and Ian Garrett in the 2014 BBC TV mini-series The Missing alongside James Nesbitt.
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Ken Stott's mother, Antonia, was a Sicilian lecturer, his father, David Stott, was a Scottish teacher and educational administrator.
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Ken Stott's career began in 1974 at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
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In 2008 Ken Stott starred in another West End production of a Reza play, this time God of Carnage, alongside Tamsin Greig, Janet McTeer and Ralph Fiennes at the Gielgud Theatre.
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Ken Stott starred in a revival of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge at the Duke of York's Theatre in early 2009, and reprised his role of Michael in God of Carnage on Broadway at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre in New York.
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Ken Stott returned to the Duke of York's Theatre in 2016 to play " Sir" in Ronald Harwood's The Dresser.
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Ken Stott appeared in BBC series Secret Army, The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, and Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective.
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Ken Stott featured in an advert for the British COI's "Drinking And Driving Wrecks Lives" campaign, playing a fireman.
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In 2008 Ken Stott was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA for his performance as comedian Tony Hancock in BBC Four's Hancock and Joan.
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Ken Stott played the father of cookery writer Nigel Slater in the BBC One adaptation of Slater's autobiographical novel Toast, opposite Helena Bonham Carter and Freddie Highmore.
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In 2015, Stott played Arthur Birling in Helen Edmundson's BBC TV adaptation of J B Priestley's An Inspector Calls.
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Ken Stott narrated for the series Send in the Dogs, following the work of UK Police Officers and their canine partners.
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Ken Stott married his long-time partner, the artist Nina Gehl, in 2016.
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Ken Stott is a supporter of Heart of Midlothian Football Club.