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.
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.
gay men talking
What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
crazy ideas pieces
I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
mouths like-you tweet
I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.
boys lucky
I've been a lucky boy.
men judging ifs
I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
shocked
I'm shocked at being recognized.
dad real grateful
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.
fans eighty huge
I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
feet
When they're four, five, six-thousand feet up in the air, there's nothing you can do for them.
asked dad english interact invite kids onstage pantomime running says sort stage tells took
My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.