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Mangan in 2010 |
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| Born | 22 July 1972 [1] Winchmore Hill, London, England |
| Spouse | Louise Delamere (12 May 2007 - present) |
Stephen Mangan (born 22 July 1972)[2] is an English actor, best known for his roles as Guy Secretan in the television series Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge and as Holistic Detective Dirk Gently in the 2010 BBC adaptation of Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, as well as Sean Lincoln in Episodes.
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Mangan was born in Winchmore Hill, North London to Irish Roman Catholic parents;[3] he has two sisters, Anita and Lisa.[4]
Mangan was educated at two independent schools for boys: at Lochinver House School, in the town of Potters Bar in Hertfordshire and Haileybury and Imperial Service College (now co-educational), a famous boarding school in the village of Hertford Heath (also in Hertfordshire), in the same year as Dom Joly. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts in Law at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge, 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.
After graduating from RADA, Mangan did not pursue lead roles on screen, preferring to take what he saw as the less limited opportunities on the stage. He appeared in Billy Elliot but said that he didn't immediately realise because when he shot the film it was called Dancer.
He has admitted on television, when guest appearing on both Would I Lie to You? and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, that in his younger years he was in a progressive rock band called Aragon that recorded an EP called The Wizard's Dream. When exactly this was not specified.[5]
His breakthrough television performance was as Adrian Mole in the six-part BBC TV show series Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years in 2001.
He has performed voice-overs for television and radio advertisements, including for Specsavers and Barclaycard, in which he stars with Green Wing co-star, Julian Rhind-Tutt. He is also known for his appearances in a series of televised advertisements for the instant coffee brand, Nescafe. On radio, he has done an advertisement supporting Marie Curie Cancer Care (2009). In television, he's appeared in an untitled Victoria Pile project (2008), as well as the film Beyond the Pole in 2010. In 2008, he played the title role in The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic. In 2007, he appeared in a pilot for Channel 4's Comedy Showcase, called Free Agents, which was commissioned for a 6 episode series that was broadcast in 2009.
He starred in the 2011 BBC-Showtime comedy series Episodes, with Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig and Richard Griffiths.[6]
He is married to the actress Louise Delamere and they have two sons, Harry, born in October 2007 and Frank (7 months old in April 2011). He is also a Celebrity Mastermind champion, scoring 29 points, 15 of which were on his specialist subject, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur and goes to games with Tamsin Greig's husband Richard Leaf.[7]