Stephen Mangan

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Stephen Mangan (born 22 July 1972 in London [http://community.channel4.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6590012924/m/4950023444] ) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Guy Secretan in the television series "Green Wing", and Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge.

Biography

Mangan grew up in Winchmore Hill, north London and attended Haileybury College, Hertfordshire in the same year as Dom Joly. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts in Law at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge University, where his friends included Rachel Weisz and Sue Perkins, Mangan took a year out to nurse his mother, Mary, who was dying of cancer. Weeks after her death, he auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He graduated from RADA in July 1994 and did not pursue lead roles on screen, preferring to take what he saw as the less limited opportunities on the stage. He appeared in Billy Elliot but has said that he didn't immediately realise because when he shot the film it was called Dancer.

His breakthrough television performance was as Adrian Mole in the six-part BBC TV show series "Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years" in 2001.

His distinctive voice is now becoming popular for voice-overs in television advertisements, including for Barclaycard, in which he stars with Green Wing co-star, Julian Rhind-Tutt. He is also known from his appearances in a series of televised advertisements for the instant coffee brand, Nescafe. On television, he will next appear "Never Better" (2008) and an untitled Victoria Pile project (2008), as well as the film "Bono, Bob, Brian and Me" (2007).

He will next work on "Bitter & Twisted" for Channel 4 and in 2008 will play the title role in "The Norman Conquests" at the Old Vic.

He is married to the actress Louise Delamere and they had a son, Harry, in October 2007.

He was known to improvise often whilst filming scenes for Green Wing often making it harder for other actors on set to continue without corpsing. For example, in a scene where he has to paint a wall for community service, in order to seem more common to the other criminal in the scene he puts on a thick londoner accent and improvises bits where he can't be bothered to paint so throws the whole pot onto the wall. It is visible in the final scene to see his co-star giggling in the background due to his comedic spontaneity.

Filmography

*"Beyond the Pole" (2009)
*"Someone Else" (2006) - David
*"Confetti" (2006) - Josef
*"Festival" (2005) - Shaun Sullivan
*"SuperTex" (2003) - Max Breslauer
*"New Years Eve" (2002) - David
*"Chunky Monkey" (2001) - Pierre Dupont
*"Birthday Girl" (2001) - Bank Manager
*"Offending Angels" (2001) - Fergus
*"Billy Elliot" (2000) - Dr Crane
*"Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence" (1998)

Television

*"Never Better" (2008) - Keith
*"Free Agents" (2007)
*"Hyperdrive - Green Javelins" (2007)
*" Agatha Christie's Marple - At Bertram's Hotel (Inspector Larry Bird)" (2007)
*"Is It Just Me or Is Everything Just Shit?" (2006, TV pilot)
*"MTV's Screenplay (2006)- Presenter
*"Britain's Biggest Spenders (2006)- Narrator
*"Confetti - Behind the scenes (2006)
*"Green Wing" (2006) - Dr. Guy Secretan
*" A Funny thing happened on the way to the studio (2006)
*"Jane Hall" (2005) (2006) - Robert
*"Bromwell High" (2005) - Gavin (voice)
*"Nathan Barley" (2005) - Rod Senseless
*"Sunday Pants" (2005) - The Imp (voice)
*"Green Wing" (2004) - Dr Guy Secretan
*"Wren: The Man Who Built Britain" (2004) - Robert Hooke
*"End of Story" (2004)
*"Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster" (2003) - Lord Byron
*"Lucky Jim" (2003) - Bertrand
*"Ready When You Are Mr. McGill" (2003) - Roland
*"Seven Wonders of the Industrial World" (2003) - Jules Isidore Dingler
*"I'm Alan Partridge" (2002) - Dan Moody
*"Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years" (2001) - Adrian Mole
*"The Armando Iannucci Shows" (2001)
*"Horizon" (2001) - Cloning the First Human - Narrator
*"Ancient Civilisations - Narrator
*"Mummies" - Narrator
*"Fire, War Plague and Treason" - Various Readings
*"Sword of Honour" (2001) - Frank De Souza
*"Thunder Pig" (2001) - Leon
*"Human Remains" (2000)
*"In Defence" (2000) - John Henderson
*"Big Bad World" (1999) - Justin
*"Watership Down" (1999) - Bigwig, Silverweed, Shale (voices)

Theatre

*"The Norman Conquests", The Old Vic Theatre (2005-6) - Norman
*"The Magic Carpet", The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre (2005-6) - Miloshin
*"The People Are Friendly", Royal Court Theatre (2002) - Robert
*"Noises Off", Piccadilly Theatre (2001) - Gary Lejeune
*"Hay Fever", Savoy Theatre/ UK tour (1999) - Simon
*"Much Ado About Nothing", Cheek By Jowl International tour (1998-9) - Don Pedro
*"The School for Scandal", Royal Shakespeare Company (1998) - Sir Benjamin Backbite
*"She Stoops to Conquer", UK tour (1997) - Marlowe
*"As You Like It", Nottingham Playhouse (1997) - Orlando
*"The Shoe Shop of Desire", UK tour (1997) - Bobby
*"Hamlet", Norwich Theatre Royal (1996) - Leartes
*"Couch Grass & Ribbon", Watermill Theatre (1996) - Jack
*"The Rover", Salisbury Playhouse (1996) - Belville
*"Mrs. Warren's Profession", Redgrave Theatre (1995) - Frank
*"Twelfth Night", Nottingham Playhouse (1995) - Sebastian
*"The Tempest", International tour (1995) - Ferdinand
*"Georges Dandin", Redgrave Theatre (1994-5) - Clitandre
*"A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Lysander

Radio

*"Last Act" (2006, radio series) -Jack Rosenthal
*"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
*"As You Like It"
*"Gordon Springer"
*"Jack the Giant Killer"
*"Into Exile"
*"The Man Who Knew Everything"
*"Othello"
*"Wild Things"
*"Cymberline"
*"The Winter's Tale"

References

External links

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* [http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/mangans/a-act.html Agents Page on Stephen Mangan]
* [http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greenwing/index.html Green Wing "microsite" at Channel4.com]

Interviews and articles

* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4120550-102281,00.html The Observer Interview - The new face of grown-up Adrian Mole] (January 21, 2001)
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/a/adrianmolethecap_66602450.shtml BBC article on Adrian Mole - the Cappuccino Years]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39P6gN1ZgMg Green Wing Interview on T4 (Channel 4) March 2006]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/___greenwing/224636.html#cutid1 Telegraph Magazine article March 18 2006]
* [http://www.smugmug.com/search/index.mg?searchWords=Stephen+Mangan&searchType=globalFinancial Evening Standard article April 20 2006 entitled Comedy's Hottest Property]
* [http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f84d1bee-dc10-11da-890d-0000779e2340.html Times article May 06 2006 entitled Nicer than he looks on TV]
* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article683246.ece"Sunday Times" "He’s earned his wings" interview with Stephen Mangan, 9 July 2006]