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Stephen Joseph Graham OBE (born 3 August 1973) is a British actor and producer. He began his career in 1990, with early notable roles including Tommy in Snatch (2000) and Shang in Gangs of New York (2002), before his breakout role as Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in the film This Is England (2006).
Stephen Graham. Actor: This Is England. Stephen Graham was born August 3, 1973, in the small town of Kirkby, Lancashire, to a pediatric nurse mother and a social worker father. His paternal grandfather was Jamaican, and one of his grandmothers was Swedish.
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Stephen Graham. Actor: This Is England. Stephen Graham was born August 3, 1973, in the small town of Kirkby, Lancashire, to a pediatric nurse mother and a social worker father. His paternal grandfather was Jamaican, and one of his grandmothers was Swedish.
- August 3, 1973
Learn about Stephen Graham, a versatile and acclaimed actor who has appeared in films, TV shows and stage plays. Find out his biography, filmography, awards and upcoming projects on The Movie Database.
- Though he won considerable acclaim for his performance as a racist vigilante in the 2006 film This Is England, at the time he thought it had ended his career.
- He's appeared in quite a few music videos over the years. Among them: "Turn" by Travis, "I Remember" by Deadmau5 and Kaskade, and both "Fluorescent Adolescent" and "When the Sun Goes Down" by Arctic Monkeys.
- He introduced Killing Eve's Jodie Comer to his agent, Jane Epstein, who is now Comer's agent too. "Stephen called me from the set of a series he was doing back in 2012 called Good Cop and passionately described a scene he had just shot with a young actress who he thought was one of the most exciting talents he had worked with to date," Epstein told The Guardian.
- Because he's dyslexic, his actress wife Hannah Walters, whom he met at drama school, reads his scripts for him. Graham told The Times in 2018: "She says, 'We're doing this,' and I say, 'OK.'
British actor Stephen Graham first came to prominence when he was cast as Tommy, the dim-witted, wannabe thug in Guy Ritchie's off-beat crime film, "Snatch" (2000).
‘I wouldn’t stand in a room with someone misogynistic, racist, or homophobic’: Stephen Graham on prejudice, social realism, and Matilda
