Stephen Mangan

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Stephen Mangan, (born 22 July 1972), is an English stage, television and film actor, best known for his role in the television series Green Wing.

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After gaining a Bachelor of Arts in Law at Cambridge University, where his friends included Rachel Weisz and Sue Perkins, Mangan took a year out to nurse his mother, Mary, who was dying of cancer. Weeks after her death, he auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He graduated from RADA In July 1994 and swore off television for years, 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 but he is probably best known as one of the stars of the Channel 4 comedy Green Wing, playing Doctor Guillaume Valerie Secretan (Guy). He played an egotistical, highly successful British TV comic with his eye on Hollywood in Annie Griffin's critically acclaimed film Festival in 2005, and appeared in the British film Confetti which was released on 5 May 2006. He also appears in one episode of the second series of I'm Alan Partridge as Alan Partridge clone Dan Moody, a Norfolk-based entrepeneur.

His distinctive voice is now becoming popular for voice-overs in television advertisements. He is also known from his appearances in a series of televised advertisements for the instant coffee brand, Nescafe.

He is due to record a pilot of the book Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shite? for Channel 4 in June 2006. He also recently recorded Jack Rosenthal's Last Act, a four part series for Radio 4 in which he plays Jack Rosenthal. In 2006 he also starred in the ITV drama series Jane Hall.

He is engaged to the actress Louise Delamere.

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[edit] Trivia

  • Mangan didn't realise he was in Billy Elliot because when he shot the film it was called Dancer.
  • While playing Mole, he crashed the character's Montego.
  • Mangan's favourite band is DC Talk.
  • There is also Stephen Mangan the musician, artist, philosipher and inventor of the same name living in Virginia Beach, VA.

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