- British actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist, writer, and producer
Real name: | Stephen John Coogan |
Steve Coogan Height
| How tall is Steve Coogan? | 179 cm / 5 ft 11 in | Born: | 14 October 1965 Comment | How old is Steve Coogan in 2024? / Age: | 58 years
| Where was Steve Coogan born? | Middleton, United Kingdom | Nicknames: | Steve | Zodiac sign: | Libra |
Steve Coogan Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| How much is Steve Coogan worth? | $25,000,000
| Nationality: | British | Hair color: | Brown | Eyes color: | Brown |
Who is Steve Coogan? / Facts
- Career start - in the 1980s, working as a voice artist on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image and providing voiceovers for television advertisements
- In the early 1990s, he began creating original comic characters, leading him to win the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- In 1999, he co-founded the production company Baby Cow Productions
- While working with Armando Iannucci on On the Hour and The Day Today, Coogan created his most developed and popular character: Alan Partridge, a socially awkward and politically incorrect regional media personality
- He featured in several television series, which earned him three BAFTA nominations and two wins for Best Comedy Performance
- A feature-length film, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, was released in 2013, and opened at number one at the British box office
- Coogan grew in prominence within the film industry in 2002, after starring in The Parole Officer and 24 Hour Party People
- He was also a voice actor in the animated comedy films Despicable Me 2 and its prequel Minions, and played Hades in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
- Coogan has also branched out into more dramatic roles, with What Maisie Knew, and portrayed Paul Raymond in the biopic The Look of Love
- He co-wrote, produced, and starred in the film adaptation Philomena, which earned him a Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination, and two Academy Award nominations (for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture)
- He has been cast in the lead role for the ABC television pilot Doubt and the Showtime drama Happyish
- On 22 November 2011, Coogan, along with Hugh Grant, gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry on phone hacking, favouring regulation of the press
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Quotes
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Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
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As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.
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In comic acting, to improvise effectively is quite difficult. A lot of actors can improvise up to a certain level - an entry level, which is when you see the actors having more fun than the audience.
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People have made the observation, which is entirely valid, that Steve Coogan's becoming more like Alan Partridge. It's not actually true. Alan Partridge is becoming more and more like me.
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I don't have a Twitter thing. I don't do Facebook. I don't do any of that. I'm holding out.
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