Stephen Wight
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Stephen Wight (born 27 February 1980) is a British actor, who trained at the Drama Centre London.
[edit] Career
Wight's television career dates back to 2003 with a minor part in Casualty.
He is best known for his role as Phil to David Jason's Des in Diamond Geezer (Granada television series from March 2005).
Diamond Geezer was the second time Wight had worked alongside David Jason, having appeared in a 2003 instalment of A Touch Of Frost, playing Ritchie Mason in Another Life.
He recently starred in the BBC TV Show Coming of Age in Series 2 Episode 3, as the character Horace.
He made his National Theatre debut at the Cottesloe in 2004 in a re-cast revival of Sing Yer Heart Out For the Lads.
At the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in November 2007 [1] Wight won The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in Don Juan in Soho at the Donmar Warehouse and in the revival of Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark, which subsequently transferred to the Trafalgar Studios in Whitehall. He appeared as Stuart the rent boy in Alan Bennett's new play The Habit of Art about an imagined meeting between poet W.H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten.
In late 2010 he starred as a series regular in two BBC sitcoms. Playing 'Joe' in The Great Outdoors and then 'Skoose' in the Alan Davies sitcom, Whites.
It has been announced that Wight will star in the 2011 London West End and Liverpool Playhouse production of The Ladykillers, playing the character of Harry Robinson, alongside Ben Miller and Peter Capaldi.
Wight appeared in Episode two, series two of BBC TV Drama Sherlock, "The Hounds of Baskerville".
He was also in 2011 British sitcom Threesome where he played one of the three main characters Mitch.
[edit] Selected theatre credits
- Jock in The Straits by Gregory Burke, Paines Plough company, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2003 and Hampstead Theatre, November 2003
- Jason in Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads by Roy Williams, National Theatre Company at the Cottesloe, April 2004
- Skyvers by Barry Reckord, Royal Court rehearsed reading, 23 January 2006
- Stan in Don Juan in Soho by Patrick Marber (after Molière), Donmar Warehouse, December 2006 [2]
- Mugsy in Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber, Menier Chocolate Factory, October 2007; then Trafalgar Studios, December 2007 [3]
- Stuart in The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett, National Theatre, 2009
- Harry Robinson The Ladykillers, Gielgud Theatre, November 2011
