Stephen Mangan

Stephen Mangan
Mangan in 2010
Born	22 July 1968 (1968-07-22) Winchmore Hill, London, England
Spouse	Louise Delamere (12 May 2007 - present)

Stephen Mangan (born 22 July 1968) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Guy Secretan in the television series Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge and as Holistic Detective Dirk Gently in the 2010 BBC adaptation of Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, as well as Sean Lincoln in Episodes.

Early life

Mangan was born in Winchmore Hill, North London to Irish Roman Catholic parents; he has two sisters, Anita and Lisa.

Education

Mangan was educated at two independent schools for boys: at Lochinver House School, in the town of Potters Bar in Hertfordshire and Haileybury and Imperial Service College (now co-educational), a famous boarding school in the village of Hertford Heath (also in Hertfordshire), in the same year as Dom Joly. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts in Law at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge, 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.

Life and career

After graduating from RADA, Mangan 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 said that he didn't immediately realise because when he shot the film it was called Dancer.

He has admitted on television, when guest appearing on both Would I Lie to You? and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, that in his younger years he was in a progressive rock band called Aragon that recorded an EP called The Wizard's Dream. When exactly this was not specified.

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

He has performed voice-overs for television and radio advertisements, including for Specsavers and Barclaycard, in which he stars with Green Wing co-star, Julian Rhind-Tutt. He is also known for his appearances in a series of televised advertisements for the instant coffee brand, Nescafe. On radio, he has done an advertisement supporting Marie Curie Cancer Care (2009). In television, he's appeared in an untitled Victoria Pile project (2008), as well as the film Beyond the Pole in 2010. In 2008, he played the title role in The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic. In 2007, he appeared in a pilot for Channel 4's Comedy Showcase, called Free Agents, which was commissioned for a 6 episode series that was broadcast in 2009.

He also stars in the 2011 BBC-Showtime comedy series Episodes, with Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig and Richard Griffiths.

Personal life

He is married to the actress Louise Delamere and they have two sons, Harry, born in October 2007 and Frank (7 months old in April 2011). He is also a Celebrity Mastermind champion, scoring 29 points, 15 of which were on his specialist subject, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur and goes to games with Tamsin Greig's husband Richard Leaf.

Filmography

• Beyond the Pole (2009)
• Someone Else (2006) - David
• Confetti (2006) - Josef
• Festival (2005) - Shaun Sullivan
• SuperTex (2003) - Max Breslauer
• New Year's 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

• Just a Minute (2012) - Himself (contestant)
• All Roads Lead Home (2011) - Himself (Co-presenter)
• The Hunt for Tony Blair (2011) - Tony Blair
• Meet the Middletons - (2011) - Narrator
• Have I Got News For You (2011) - Himself (host)
• Episodes (2011) - Sean Lincoln
• Celebrity Mastermind - (2011) Himself (contestant)
• Rome Wasn't Built in a Day (2011) - Narrator
• Dirk Gently (2010) - Dirk Gently
• Richard Bacon's Beer & Pizza Club (2010) - Himself (guest)
• Three In A Bed (2010) - Narrator
• Free Agents (2009)
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks (2009) - Himself (panellist)
• Would I Lie To You? (2009–2010) - Himself (panellist)
• Never Better (2008) - Keith
• 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)
• 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) Series Two "BraveAlan" - 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 - Bigwig, Silverweed, Shale (voices)

Theatre

• The Norman Conquests, Circle in the Square Theatre (2009)- Norman
• The Norman Conquests, The Old Vic Theatre (2008) - 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

• ElvenQuest (2009, radio series)
• 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
• Cymbeline
• The Winter's Tale

External links

• Stephen Mangan at the Internet Movie Database
• Agent's Page on Stephen Mangan
• Green Wing "microsite" at Channel4.com

Interviews and articles

• The Observer Interview - The new face of grown-up Adrian Mole (21 January 2001)
• BBC article on Adrian Mole - the Cappuccino Years
• Green Wing Interview on T4 (Channel 4) March 2006
• Telegraph Magazine article 18 March 2006
• Evening Standard article 20 April 2006 entitled Comedy's Hottest Property
• Times article 6 May 2006 entitled Nicer than he looks on TV
• Sunday Times "He’s earned his wings" interview with Stephen Mangan, 9 July 2006
• Stephen Mangan hands out his very own BAFTAs, Bafta.org 4 March 2009
• Interview with Stephen Mangan on Broadway.com May 2009