Stephen James Mangan is an English actor, writer, comedian and presenter. He has played Guy Secretan in Green Wing, Dan Moody in I’m Alan Partridge, Sean Lincoln in Episodes, Bigwig in Watership Down, Postman Pat: The Movie, Richard Pitt in Hang Ups and Andrew in Bliss. As a stage actor, he was Tony-nominated for his portrayal of Norman in The Norman Conquests on Broadway.
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Stephen James Mangan is an English actor, writer, comedian and presenter. He has played Guy Secretan in Green Wing, Dan Moody in I’m Alan Partridge, Sean Lincoln in Episodes, Bigwig in Watership Down, Postman Pat: The Movie, Richard Pitt in Hang Ups and Andrew in Bliss. As a stage actor, he was Tony-nominated for his portrayal of Norman in The Norman Conquests on Broadway. He also starred as Bertie Wooster in Jeeves in Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York’s Theatre, which won the 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. Mangan was born in Ponders End, in Enfield, north London, to Irish parents. His father, James, died of a brain tumour at age 63; his cousin-in-law also died of brain tumours in 2019. He backed the 2020 National Brain Appeal’s a charity supporting research at the National Brain Hospital, with a unique online art gallery exhibition sale. He was in a school prog rock band called Aragon, who recorded an album called The Wizard’s Dream. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Mangan took a year out to care for his mother, Mary, who died of colon cancer at age 45.
After graduating from RADA in 1994, he did not pursue lead roles on-screen, preferring to take what he saw as the less limited opportunities on the stage. His breakthrough television performance was as Adrian Mole in the six-part BBC TV show series Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years in 2001. That same year he appeared in Sword of Honour on Channel 4, alongside Daniel Craig. In Channel 4’s The World’s Greatest Comedy Characters, Guy was voted 34th. He starred as Keith in Never Better, a British television sitcom on BBC Two. He plays a recovering alcoholic Keith Merchant and Kate Ashfield is his long-suffering wife Anita. In 2009, In a romantic black comedy, Sharon Worldfield starred Mangan, Horgan and Anthony Head in Free Agents. It spawned a short US remake, which was cancelled after just four episodes. He played the title role in Gently Gently, a series based on characters from the Dirk Gently novels by Douglas Adams. The series was created by Howard Overman and co-starred Darren Boyd as Dirk’s girlfriend Susan Harmison.
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