Stephen James Mangan was born on 16 May 1968 and is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer.
32 Facts About Stephen Mangan
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Stephen Mangan has played Guy Secretan in Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge, Sean Lincoln in Episodes, Bigwig in Watership Down, Postman Pat in Postman Pat: The Movie, Richard Pitt in Hang Ups, Andrew in Bliss, and Nathan Stern in The Split.
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Stephen Mangan starred as Bertie Wooster in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End, which won the 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
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Stephen Mangan co-presented the 2020 edition of Children In Need for the BBC.
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Stephen Mangan was educated at two private schools, Lochinver House School for boys in Potters Bar, and Haileybury and Imperial Service College, a boarding school in the village of Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire.
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Stephen Mangan was in a school prog rock band called Aragon, who recorded an album called The Wizard's Dream.
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Stephen Mangan worked again for director Declan Donnellan at the Royal Shakespeare Company in School for Scandal, and at the Savoy Theatre in Hay Fever.
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Stephen Mangan starred as Bertie Wooster in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York's Theatre alongside Matthew Macfadyen as Jeeves from October 2013 until they were replaced by Mark Heap and Robert Webb in April 2014.
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Stephen Mangan played Guy Secretan in the BAFTA-winning British sitcom Green Wing.
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Stephen Mangan starred as Keith in Never Better, a British television sitcom on BBC Two.
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Stephen Mangan plays a recovering alcoholic Keith Merchant and Kate Ashfield is his long-suffering wife Anita.
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Stephen Mangan played the title role in Dirk Gently, a British comedy detective drama TV series based on characters from the Dirk Gently novels by Douglas Adams.
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Stephen Mangan has said that he was "bitterly upset" at the BBC's axing of the series after four episodes due to a freeze on the licence fee.
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Stephen Mangan played the title role in "The Hunt for Tony Blair", a one-off episode of The Comic Strip Presents.
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Stephen Mangan based his performance as Lincoln on his favorite shows from his youth.
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In 2018, Stephen Mangan played the lead role in a black comedy TV series Bliss, created by American comedian David Cross, which was aired on Sky One and released by the BritBox streaming service.
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Stephen Mangan co-wrote and starred in Hang Ups for Channel 4.
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Also in 2018, Stephen Mangan starred in the BBC legal drama The Split opposite Nicola Walker.
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Stephen Mangan reprised this role in the second series in 2020 and again in the third series in 2022.
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In May 2022 the BBC announced that Stephen Mangan would be one of the guest presenters to take over Richard Osman's role on Pointless.
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Stephen Mangan played the leading role in 2003's SuperTex, a Dutch film directed by Jan Schutte and filmed in English.
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Stephen Mangan was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA for his performance.
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Stephen Mangan plays one of the grooms, a professional tennis player.
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Stephen Mangan starred in Beyond the Pole, a 2010 British mockumentary adapted from the cult BBC radio series of the same name.
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In 2013 Stephen Mangan played Alastair Caldwell in Rush, a British-German biographical sports drama film centered on the rivalry between race car drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
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In 2014, Stephen Mangan voiced the title role in Postman Pat: The Movie, a British 3D computer-animated comedy film featuring Postman Pat, star of a long-running BBC children's series.
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In 2020, it was announced Stephen Mangan is to write his first film, an adaptation of the children's novel Harry And The Wrinklies.
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Stephen Mangan was host of the Evening Standard British Film Awards for four years.
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Stephen Mangan recorded the role of Cloten in Shakespeare's Cymbeline for the Arkangel Shakespeare audiobook series, directed by Clive Brill.
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Stephen Mangan has been one of the hosts of Artist of the Year since 2018.
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Stephen Mangan backed the 2020 National Brain Appeal's a charity supporting research at the National Brain Hospital, with a unique online art gallery exhibition sale.
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Stephen Mangan is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur and goes to games with Tamsin Greig's husband Richard Leaf.