Stephen Joseph Graham was born on August 1973 and is an English actor.
21 Facts About Stephen Graham
2.
Stephen Graham began his career in 1990 and worked steadily, including portraying Tommy in Snatch and Shang in Gangs of New York, before his breakout role as Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in the film This Is England.
3.
On television, Graham continued his role as Gascoigne in This Is England '86, This Is England '88, and This Is England '90.
4.
Stephen Graham has received numerous accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award, nominations for five British Academy Television Awards and two British Academy Film Awards, and an OBE.
5.
Stephen Joseph Graham was born in August 1973 in Kirkby, Lancashire.
6.
Stephen Graham was brought up by his mother, a social worker, and his stepfather, a mechanic who later became a paediatric nurse.
7.
Stephen Graham maintained a good relationship with his biological father.
8.
Stephen Graham attended Overdale Primary School in Kirkby, where he was encouraged to pursue an acting career at the age of eight by local actor Andrew Schofield, who had seen him perform as Jim Hawkins in a school production of Treasure Island.
9.
Stephen Graham has often portrayed characters from different British, Irish and American regions.
10.
Stephen Graham has played characters who are Cockney, Welsh, Geordie, Scouse and Scottish, as well as an Irish gang member in 19th-century New York City, a 1930s Chicago bank robber, a New Jersey mobster, a Texan, the short-fused English nationalist "Combo" in This Is England, and a Jamaican gangster in Yardie.
11.
Stephen Graham was nominated for an RTS Award for his work in The Street, and for a British Independent Film Award for his work in This Is England.
12.
Stephen Graham appeared as an inmate within the open prison system in the music video for Goldie's "I Adore You" in 2017.
13.
In 2011, Stephen Graham starred in the BBC Christmas show Lapland.
14.
Stephen Graham appeared on a promotional video for a DLC of the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts, titled "CODnapped".
15.
In 2019, Stephen Graham featured as DS John Corbett in series 5 of the BBC drama Line of Duty.
16.
In 2021, Stephen Graham starred alongside his wife Hannah Walters in the film Boiling Point.
17.
In October 2022, it was announced that the BBC would produce a sequel series, set months after the feature film, with Stephen Graham reprising his role.
18.
Stephen Graham is teetotal and suffers from dyslexia, revealing in 2019 that his wife reads scripts for him and helps him decide whether to accept a role.
19.
Stephen Graham has struggled with depression and once tried to hang himself in his early 20s, stating that he only survived because "the rope snapped".
20.
Stephen Graham is a lifelong supporter of Liverpool FC and has made several appearances on the Sky Sports football show Soccer AM.
21.
Stephen Graham was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to drama, which he dedicated to his mother.