- Steve Steen
Steve Steen (born
December 26 1954 ) is a Britishactor andcomedian best known for his improvisation partnership with Jim Sweeney.The pair met at school in
London and joined atheatre club in 1972. The two then wrote and starred in a show which parodied much of the other shows being held in London that year. They then formed their own theatre company and wrote and toured productions around the UK for the rest of the 1970s.The two have worked together as writers, guest comics, support acts and improvisers ever since, although Steen has done his share of straight acting, including a part in the movie version of
BBC sitcom "Porridge" in 1979. Although he had lines to say as youngconvict Wellings, the final cut showed him frequently onscreen yet without saying a word. He was, however, credited.Steen and Sweeney appeared on television together for the first time in 1981 with the
ITV children's show "CBTV", followed by one ofChannel 4 's first comedies, "Little Armadillos" and a role for Steen inBen Elton 's idyllic comedy "Happy Families".Rory Bremner then recruited them as resident support performers on his firstsketch show for the BBC, and shortly afterwards they starred as poets Byron (Steen) and Coleridge (Sweeney) in an episode of "Blackadder the Third ".Sweeney was recruited as a solo performer thereafter for "
Whose Line Is It Anyway? ", but Steen was soon summoned for the Channel 4 improvisation show, and was a runaway success in his six episodes. He also guested on "Have I Got News For You " in 1992 (without Sweeney, who to date has never been on that programme) and combined one-off acting roles on TV with taking improv tours, with Sweeney and others, around the UK and beyond.External links
* [http://stevesteen.com/ Steve Steen's Official website]
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