Stephen Mangan
Stephen Mangan
Stephen James Mangan is an English actor, best known for his roles as Guy Secretan in Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge, Sean Lincoln in Episodes and Postman Pat in Postman Pat: The Movie...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 July 1972
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I dont like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from Shrek about me.
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I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
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I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.
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I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.
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My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.
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I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
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Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
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I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
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I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.
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I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me.
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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.
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Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.
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I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types.
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My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.