Dan Stevens
Dan Stevens
Daniel Jonathan "Dan" Stevens is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Matthew Crawley in the British period drama television series Downton Abbey...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 October 1982
CityCroydon, England
nice awards rags
It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.
beautiful heart forever
There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech…
kids darkness important
Family is hugely important to me. Having kids is the best possible way to shake off any kind of darkness that might accompany a role that you're playing.
daughter mother struggle
The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
thinking would-be taxi
I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.
writing ideas actors
But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
world haunting able
It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune.
theatre batteries speak
Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.
Everything's so accelerated now.
backgrounds knows
I don't know much about my biological background.
guy challenges trying
It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him.
goal interesting roles
I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
thinking play people
I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.
kids thinking young
I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.