Ken Stott

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Kenneth Campbell Stott (born 1955, Edinburgh) is a Scottish film and television actor, particularly known in the United Kingdom for his many roles in the latter medium. His father was a Scot and his mother was Sicilian.

For three years in his youth he was a member of a band called Keyhole, members of which later went on to form the Bay City Rollers. After attending Mountview Theatre School in London, Stott began working in the theatre for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the age of twenty, but for some years his earnings from acting were minimal and he was forced to support himself by also working as a double glazing salesman. This is echoed in the character he plays in Takin' Over the Asylum.

He appeared in small roles in BBC series such as The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (King Lear, 1982), Secret Army (1985) and Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986). He eventually began to earn starring roles on television in the 1990s.

His highest-profile television roles have included the leading character, DCI Red Matcalfe, in the BBC crime drama series Messiah (BBC One, 2001-05); DI Chappell in ITV police drama The Vice (1999-2003); as a drunk who fantasises about finding redemption by joining the Salvation Army in Promoted to Glory (ITV, 2003); as Adolf Hitler in Uncle Adolf (ITV, 2005) and as a fictional Chancellor of the Exchequer in Richard Curtis's The Girl in the Café (BBC One, 2005). As of 2006 he is starring in the detective series Rebus, a television adaptation of the Ian Rankin novels.

In film, he has tended to play mostly supporting parts, such as DI McCall in Shallow Grave (1994), Ted in Fever Pitch (1997) and Marius Honorius in King Arthur (2004). However, he has had occasional starring roles on the big screen, most notably opposite Billy Connolly and Iain Robertson in The Debt Collector (1999).

Stott has also continued to act in the theatre, and in 1997 was nominated in the best actor category at the Laurence Olivier Awards for his role in the play 'Art' in 1996.

Aged thirty, Stott married a director's assistant named Elizabeth, and they had one child, Bill, in 1985. However, the marriage later broke up and Stott's current partner is the actress Di Sherlock.

In 2007, Ken stared in the third episode of ITV1's You Don't Know You're Born.

In 2008, he will provide the voice for Trufflehunter, a badger loyal to Prince Caspian in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Film	Role
2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian	Trufflehunter (voice)
2006	Rebus	DI John Rebus
2005	Casanova	Dalfonso
	Messiah: The Harrowing	DCI Red Metcalfe
	The Girl in the Cafe	Chancellor
	The Mighty Celt	Good Joe
	Uncle Adolf	Adolf Hitler
2004	Messiah III: The Promise	DCI Red Metcalfe
	King Arthur	Marius Honorius
	Spivs	Jack
2003	Promoted to Glory	Mike
	The Key	Billy
	The Vice	D.I Pat Chappel
	I'll Sleep When I'm Dead	Turner
2002	Messiah 2: Vengeance is Mine	DCI Redfern 'Red' Metcalfe
2001	Messiah (aka Messiah I: The First Killings)	D.C.I Redfern 'Red' Metcalfe
2000	The Miracle Maker	Simon Peter (voice)
1999	Dockers	Tommy Walton
	The Debt Collector	Gary Keltie
	Plunkett & Macleane	Chance
	Vicious Circle	Martin Cahill
1997	The Boxer	Ike Weir
	Stone, Scissors, Paper	Redfern
	Fever Pitch	Ted, the Headmaster
1996	Saint-Ex	Prevot
	Silent Witness	Sergeant Bob Claire
	A Mug's Game	McCaffrey
	Rhodes	Barney Barnato
1994	Takin' Over the Asylum	Eddie
	Shallow Grave	Detective Inspector McCall
1993	Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story
	Anna Lee: Headcase	Bernie Schiller
	Franz Kafka's Its a Wonderful Life	Woland the Knifeman
	'Being Human	Gasper Diez
1990	Your Cheatin' Heart	Fraser Boyle
1988	For Queen and Country	Civil Servant
1986	The Singing Detective	Uncle John
1985	Taggart	Dr. MacNaughten
1983	The Begger's Opera	Jemmy Twitcher
1982	King Lear	Curan
1977	Secret Army	Baroja

[edit] External links

• Ken Stott at the Internet Movie Database.
• The Ken Stott Appreciation Site