15 Facts About Steve Nallon

Steve Nallon is known for his work as a voice artist on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image and for impersonating Margaret Thatcher on television throughout her time as Prime Minister of the UK.

Steve Nallon's father was a church caretaker who had a long history of mental health issues.

Steve Nallon's mother died suddenly in 1970 when Steve was nine years old.

In 1979, Steve Nallon began studying Drama and English at the University of Birmingham.

Steve Nallon worked as a stand-up comedian on the northern club circuit in the 1970s.

Steve Nallon featured on the BBC's tribute to the art and craft of the impressionist, Night of a Thousand Faces, and he guest starred on Alistair McGowan's Big Impression series and The Impressionable Jon Culshaw series.

Steve Nallon continues to perform in the guise of Margaret Thatcher.

Steve Nallon has provided the voice of Margaret Thatcher since 2011 in the BBC Radio Four series UK Confidential which examines Government Cabinet papers released under the 30-year rule.

In 1989, Steve Nallon co-wrote I, Margaret with Tom Holt, a spoof autobiography of Baroness Thatcher, published by Macmillan.

In 1999, Steve Nallon co-wrote The Ghost of Number Ten and The Steve Nallon Tapes for BBC Radio Four.

Steve Nallon performed all the voices in The Nallon Tapes, and in The Ghost of Number Ten he played the multi-voiced computer.

Steve Nallon has made contributions to New Statesman and the magazine Musical Stages.

In 2002, Steve Nallon wrote and appeared in The Big Odyssey, a theatrical adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, which was staged at the Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

In 2014, Steve Nallon appeared as Dame Trott in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Buxton Opera House.

In 2015, Steve Nallon voiced various characters in the pantomime section of Clementine's Seasonal Spectacular, a puppet show which combined live puppets and video projection, which was staged at the Rosemary Branch theatre in Islington.