Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham was born in Kirkby, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom on August 3rd, 1973 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 50, Stephen Graham biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Stephen Graham (born 3 August 1973) is an English actor.
He is best known for his role as Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in This Is England (2006) and its television sequels, as well as his appearances as Tommy in Snatch (2000), Shang in Gangs of New York (2004), and Scrum in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
On television, he has appeared in the fifth series of Line of Duty on BBC One and as Al Capone in the Boardwalk Empire on HBO.
Early life
Graham was born in Kirkby, Lancashire, on August 3rd. His father was of half Jamaican and half Swedish descent. He was taken up by his mother, a social worker, and his older brother, a mechanic who later became a paediatric nurse. He had a positive relationship with his biological father. He attended Overdale Primary School in Kirkby, where he was encouraged to pursue an acting career at the age of eight by local actor Andrew Schofield, who had seen him play Jim Hawkins in a school production of Treasure Island. He then began his studies at Ruffwood Comprehensive and was then introduced to Everyman Theatre in Liverpool at the age of 14, before moving on to study at The Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance.
Personal life
On June 6, 2008, Graham married actress Hannah Walters; they first met and started dating while both were studying at the Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance. Having lived in the Beckenham neighborhood of London, they now live in Ibstock, Leicestershire. They have a son and a daughter.
Graham has been a fan of Liverpool FC and has appeared on many occasions on the Sky Sports football show Soccer AM. He has struggled with depression and once attempted to hang himself in his early 20s, but he survived because "the rope snapped." He is teetotal and dyslexia, and his wife reads scripts for him and aids him in deciding whether or not to accept or decline a role.' [...] If I can find socially aware, political positions that are saying something, well, I'm from there. It's what I know. So here's how I've tried to keep my base.
Career
Graham has often portrayed characters from different British, Irish and American regions. He has played characters who are Cockney, Welsh, Geordie, Scouse and Scottish, as well as an Irish gang member in 19th-century New York City, a 1930s Chicago bank robber, a New Jersey mobster, a Texan, the short-fused English nationalist "Combo" in This Is England, and a Jamaican gangster in Yardie.
Graham was nominated for an RTS Award for his work in The Street, and for a British Independent Film Award for his work on This Is England. He appeared in the music videos for "I Remember" by Deadmau5 and Kaskade, "Fluorescent Adolescent" and "When the Sun Goes Down" by the Arctic Monkeys, "Unlovable" by Babybird (directed by Johnny Depp), and Gazelle's single "Finger on the Trigger". Graham also appeared in the music video "Soul Vampire" by Macclesfield-based neo-psychedelic band The Virginmarys, the music video for "Turn" by Travis, and Kasabian's video "You're in Love with a Psycho". He appeared as an inmate within the open prison system in the music video for Goldie's "I Adore You" in 2017.
In 2011, Graham starred in the BBC Christmas show Lapland. When the series was remade as Being Eileen Graham's role was recast with Dean Andrews. He also appeared on a promotional video for a DLC of the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts, titled "CODnapped".
In 2019, Graham featured as DS John Corbett in series 5 of the BBC drama Line of Duty. In November of that year, Graham was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. In January 2020, he appeared in the ITV series White House Farm as Welsh detective "Taff" Jones. Despite his reputation for his ability to adopt different accents, a number of critics criticised his performance and stated that his Welsh accent was inauthentic.
In 2021, Graham starred in Philip Barantini-directed film Boiling Point, alongside Vinette Robinson, Ray Panthaki and Hannah Walters. It is a one-shot film set in a restaurant kitchen, expanded from the 2019 short film of the same name. In October 2022, it was announced that the BBC would produce a sequel series, set month after the feature film, with Graham returning.