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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When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.
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When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help families during that terrible time gets my backing.
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My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.
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I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.
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I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn't really need to do anything on screen, but I realised that wasn't true. If you do nothing, it's boring.
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Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.
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I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldn't dignify it with the term band - get together and play.
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I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.
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I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.
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I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.
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There's 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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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.
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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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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.