1. Stephen Walters was born on 22 May 1975 and is an English actor.
30 Facts About Stephen Walters
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Stephen Walters was nominated for a Royal Television Society Best Actor award in 2013 for his role in the Sky Arts drama Ragged and in 2023 for a Supporting Actor award for his role in the ITV drama Anne.
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In 1989, while at St Wilfrids secondary school, Walters was cast in ITV's British Children's anthology series Dramarama where he portrayed Corporal Tomkins in the series seven episode entitled "Ghost Story".
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Stephen Walters was featured in Jimmy McGovern's episode Needle, which was based upon the needle exchange programme and heroin epidemic in 1980s Liverpool.
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Stephen Walters would portray lead guest character Jack McCaffrey, a slippery cockney, in the two-part series one finale written by Paul Abbott.
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Between 1998 and 2000, Walters appeared in several episodic performances such as BBC's Pie in the Sky, opposite the late Richard Griffiths, Mikey Sullivan in Jimmy McGovern's crime drama Liverpool 1, Technician Fifth Grade John McGrath in HBO's WWII miniseries Band of Brothers, and Scott in the BBC drama Nice Guy Eddie.
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In 2001, Stephen Walters starred as Knockoff in the BBC television production of writer Jim Cartwright's comedy Strumpet, opposite Christopher Eccleston.
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Stephen Walters was then cast as a series lead, in the role of prison psychiatrist Nick Vaughan, alongside Lennie James in the eight-part drama series Buried.
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Stephen Walters would go on to portray the guest starring role of Dylan Forbes in the premiere episode of ITV's drama Murder City, directed by Sam Miller, before a turn as Lord Gilbert Gifford in the BBC's 2005 dramatic mini-series The Virgin Queen.
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In 2008's two-part series six finale of ITV's crime drama Wire in the Blood, Stephen Walters played serial-killer-on-the-loose James Williams.
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Stephen Walters reunited with previous co-star Sean Bean in "Tracie's Story", a critically acclaimed episode of 2013's The Accused, penned by Jimmy McGovern.
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Stephen Walters filmed three episodes of NBC's dramatic series Dracula, opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers, as Hungarian detective Hackett.
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From 2014 to 2016, opposite Sam Heughan, Caitriona Balfe and Graham McTavish, Stephen Walters portrayed the featured role of Angus Mhor in the television adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's best-selling Scottish time travel novel Outlander.
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The expansion of Stephen Walters' Angus and Grant O'Rourke's Rupert MacKenzie is a favourite of Gabaldon's, who has described the television characters as "the 1800s' version of Laurel and Hardy".
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Between seasons one and two of Outlander, Stephen Walters was featured in two stylistically different shows for the BBC.
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Stephen Walters was featured, opposite Stephen Rea's Inspector Bucket, as accused murderer Manning.
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Second, Stephen Walters guest starred as Borel in an episode of The Musketeers, a retelling of Alexandre Dumas' classic French novel The Three Musketeers.
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In early 2017, Stephen Walters appeared in two episodes of AMC's post-apocalyptic original series Into the Badlands as The Engineer, an American warlord, opposite Daniel Wu and Nick Frost.
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Stephen Walters appeared as DCI Mark Guinness in RTS Award-winning Little Boy Blue, a four-part factual drama that was based on the murder of Rhys Jones and written for ITV by Jeff Pope.
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Summer 2017 saw Stephen Walters portray the role of failed rock star Johnny in Rowan Joffe's Tin Star.
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Stephen Walters portrayed Thomas Malone, a convicted murderer, who has his sentence overturned after twenty-three years behind bars.
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Stephen Walters featured as Zeppo in Apple T+'s Slow Horses, a spy series led by Gary Oldman, which was adapted for television from novelist Mick Herron's Slough House series.
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In February 2023, Stephen Walters guest starred as Nial Heslop on the season twelve finale of ITV's long-running crime drama Vera.
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Stephen Walters then played the role of Nazi skinhead Blowfish in Ronny Yu's film The 51st State opposite Samuel L Jackson and Robert Carlyle.
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In 2004, Stephen Walters was directed by Matthew Vaughn in the supporting role of Shanks, opposite Daniel Craig, in the feature film Layer Cake.
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Stephen Walters portrayed Zigmas Milko, a man of Eastern European origin, and one of Hannibal's main victims.
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For Splintered, a horror movie released to cinemas in 2010, Stephen Walters played dual roles as brothers Vincent and Gavin.
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Later that year Stephen Walters featured in Age of Heroes alongside Sean Bean.
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In 2012, Stephen Walters portrayed Gaz in the drama Kelly + Victor, based upon Niall Griffith's 2002 novel of the same name.
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Stephen Walters recently completed short film Humpty Fu*king Dumpty, an in-depth look at Merseybeat musician Tommy Quickly, which he wrote and directed.