Steve Edge

For other people named Steve Edge, see Steve Edge (disambiguation).

Steve Edge
Edge in 2004
Birth name	Steve Edge
Born	(1972-11-02) 2 November 1972 Cannock, Staffordshire, England
Medium	Television, Comedy
Nationality	British
Years active	1997–present
Genres	Situation comedy, sketch comedy
Subject(s)	Celebrities, Football, Prison

Steve Edge (born 2 November 1972) is an English actor, writer and former comedian. He is most famous for his work on Starlings, Phoenix Nights, The Cup, The Visit, Peep Show and the satirical magazine show Star Stories.

Early life and stand-up

Edge was born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England. He attended Stafford College and the University of Salford. He began his career in 1997 and from then until 2004 worked steadily as a comedian. From March–November 2004 Steve, Paddy McGuinness, Archie Kelly and Janice Connolly toured a live stand-up show "Jumping on the Bandwagon" in reference to the success of Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights. The final show of the tour and the last time he did stand-up was at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool. Edge is most famous playing Alan, one half of double-act Les Alanos with Les played by Toby Foster in That Peter Kay Thing, Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights and Max and Paddy's Road To Nowhere. He reprised the role in 2015 for Phoenix Nights LIVE where the cast performed 16 shows at Manchester Arena and raised £5 million for Comic Relief.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Live at the Top of the Tower	Brian
	That Peter Kay Thing	Alan	4 Episodes
2001–2002	Phoenix Nights	Alan	12 Episodes
2003	Cold Feet	Sean	1 Episode
2004	Family Business	Trevor	1 Episode
	No Angels	Ray	3 Episodes
	Peep Show	Daryl	1 Episode
	Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere	Alan	2 Episodes
	Christmas Lights	Gibbo
2005	Twisted Tales	Trax	1 Episode
	Mike Bassett: Manager	Doddsy (Dave Dodds)	6 Episodes
2006	The Street	Malcolm McKenzie	1 Episode
	Star Stories Series 1	Boy George, Sting, Mark Curry, various	5 Episodes
	I'm with Stupid	Sgt. Swithenback	6 Episodes
2007	Magicians	Tony White
	The Visit	Clint	7 Episodes
	Star Stories Series 2	Gary Barlow, John Travolta, Walt Disney, various	4 Episodes
	Dogface	Various	4 Episodes
2008	The Cup	Terry McConnell	6 Episodes
	Star Stories Series 3	Paul McCartney, David Furnish, The Edge, various	5 Episodes
2009	Comedy Showcase	Phil	1 Episode – Guantanamo Phil
2010	Secret Diary of a Call Girl	Hamish	1 Episode
	Scallywagga	Mr. Styles, Various	6 Episodes
	The Great Outdoors	Tom	3 Episodes
2011	Lunch Monkeys	Pat	1 Episode
2012–2013	Starlings	Fergie	16 Episodes
2013	Love Matters	Warren	1 Episode
2013–2015	All at Sea	Kevin Enright	(Robot Operator) Voice By Wayne Forester 26 Episodes
2014	Paddington	Natural History Museum Security Guard	film
2016–2018	Benidorm	Billy Dawson	25 episodes
2016	Happy Valley	Graham Tattersall	2 episodes
2016	Plebs	Justin	Season 3 Episode 2
2018	The Split	Matthew Royston	Season 1 Episode 4
2018	Urban Myths	Barry	Episode: Public Enemy (feat. Kev Wells)
2018	The Reluctant Landlord	David Foster
2019	Scarborough	Bigsy

Writing and other work

Edge was a programme associate/writer on 8 out of 10 Cats from 2007 to 2011.

He was script editor for the BBC2 comedy "The Cup" in which he also starred as the lead, Terry McConnell.

In 2009 he wrote the BBC1 show Walk on the Wild Side along with Jason Manford as well as adding the voices to the show, most notably the Marmot repeatedly shouting "Alan".

In 2009 he wrote and narrated BBC3's "Almost Famous III" and returned in 2010 with the much revered sequel "Almost Famous IV".

In 2002 he starred in a series of improvised adverts directed by Graham Linehan, for the now defunct ITV Sport Channel.

He starred as a hapless undertaker in the Elbow promo for the song "Not a Job"

Edge is the creator and co-writer of the series Starlings along with Matt King on Sky1.

Awards and nominations

• Finalist in the 1998 BBC New Comedy Awards competition at the Edinburgh Festival
• Nominated in 2004 for the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards – Best Comedy for the "Jumping on the Bandwagon" Tour
• Nominated in 2005 North West Comedy Awards – Best Comedic Performance on Film & TV for I'm with Stupid
• Nominated in 2007 RTS Awards Best Performance in a Comedy for The Visit
• Nominated in 2008 British Comedy Awards Best Male Comedy Newcomer for The Cup
• Won in 2010 RTS Awards Best Performance in a Comedy for Scallywagga

Personal life

Edge has lived in Didsbury a suburb of Manchester since 1995 and revealed on Soccer AM that he is a Wolverhampton Wanderers season ticket holder who sits in the Stan Cullis Stand. He was married in August 2014, with friend and colleague Jason Manford as best man. He is godfather to Manford's twin daughters.

External links

• Steve Edge at IMDb
• Steve Edge on Myspace
• Steve's CV and credits at Curtis Brown (literary agents)