Steve Coogan
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 58 |
Date of birth | October 14,1965 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Middleton |
United Kingdom | |
Height | 179 (cm) |
Spouse | Caroline Hickman |
Children | Clare Coogan |
Job | Film Producer |
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Screenwriter | |
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Television producer | |
Film Score Composer | |
Stand-up comedian | |
Education | Manchester Metropolitan University |
Manchester School of Theatre | |
Alma mater | Manchester Metropolitan University |
Parents | Anthony Coogan |
Kathleen Coonan | |
Siblings | Brendan Coogan |
Martin Coogan | |
Clare Coogan | |
Albums | Phenomenon |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 405493 |
Easily Distracted
Alan Partridge: Every Ruddy Word
Knowing Me, Knowing You. . . : With Alan Partridge
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa: Script (and Scrapped)
Alan Partridge: Every Ruddy Word : All the Scripts - from Radio to TV and Back
Paul Calf's Book for Boys and Pauline Calf's Book for Girls
Alpha Papa: The Script
Steve Coogan Live 'n' Lewd
Steve Coogan Is the Man Who Thinks He's It
Dr Terrible's Journal of Infernal
I'M Alan Partridge
Nomad
Now Show
Live and Lewd 5321844
League of Gentlemen
Philomena
Ideal Home
The Trip to Spain
Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Around the World in 80 Days
The Trip to Italy
Night at the Museum
Tropic Thunder
The Other Guys
24 Hour Party People
The Secret Life of Pets
Saxondale
The Dinner
The Day Today
Holmes & Watson
Knowing Me, Knowing You. . . with Alan Partridge
A Cock and Bull Story
Hamlet 2
Spitting Image
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
What Maisie Knew
The Look of Love
Shepherds and Butchers
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Happyish
The Alibi
Cruise of the Gods
In the Loop
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
The Indian in the Cupboard
Our Idiot Brother
Minions
Despicable Me 2
The Parole Officer
Despicable Me 3
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Coffee and Cigarettes
Coogan's Run
Ella Enchanted
Ruby Sparks
Marmaduke
Marie Antoinette
Happy Endings
Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible
Irreplaceable You
The Private Life of Samuel Pepys
The Wind in the Willows
Stan & Ollie
Alan Partridge
I'm Alan Partridge
The Trip
This Time with Alan Partridge
British Academy Television Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme
British Academy Television Award for Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme
British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance
Best Screenplay Award
Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
The British Comedy Academy Outstanding Achievement Award
British Comedy Award for the Best TV Comedy Actor
British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Newcomer
Chlotrudis Award for Best Cast
NME Award for Best Comedian
British Comedy Award for BBC2/C4/C5 Comedy Personality
British Comedy Award for Best Male Comedy Performer
British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Personality
Steve Coogan Life story
Stephen John Coogan is an English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter. He is most known for creating original characters such as Alan Partridge, a socially inept and politically incorrect media personality, which he developed while working with Armando Iannucci on On the Hour and The Day Today.
Early Life of Steve Coogan
Steve coogan was born in 1965 in middleotn. Greater manchester. The second of six children. He was raised catholic and educated at cardinal langley orman catholic high school. He then attended the university of manchester where he studied english and drama.Acting Career
Coogan s first maojr acting role was in the bbc sitcom the day today in 1994. He then went on to various other acting roles in films and shows such as 24 hour praty people. Philomena and alan partridge. Coogan was also a voice actor for the animated flim despicable me 2.Writing and Producing
In addition to acting. Coogan has also written and produced several films. Including the parole officer. Hamlet 2. And alpha papa. He has also written radio shwos scuh as knowing me knowing you. And cow-rote and starred in the film the trip.Stand-up Comedy
Coogan is also well known for his stand-up comedy. Having performed in many comedy clubs across the uk. He has released several stand-up comeyd albums. Including his most recent. A sereis of downhill lacks.Music
Coogan has released two music albums. And has written and performed several songs. Such as his single "the one and only". He has also performed on stage with bands suhc as the prodiyg and the streets.Charitable Work
Cooagn is an active supproter of many charities. Including the british red cross. Alzheimer s society. And the national autistic society. He was also a patron of the charity crisis until his departure in 2018.Personal Life
In 2005 coogan mraried caroline hickman. And the couple have two children. They separated in 2012. Coogan is known for his often tumultuous relationships with the media. Including a high-porfile libel suit which he won in 2008.Awards and Honours
Coogan has won numerous awards. Including a british comedy award. A bafta. And a golden globe. He has also been nominated for an emmy. And was awarded an ohnorary doctorate from the university of salford in.Important Event
In 2019. Coogan was appointed commander of the order of the british empire (cbe) in the queen s birthday honours list for his services to entertainment.Interesting Fact
In addition to his many acting. Writing. And producing credits. Coogan is also a trained pilot and holds a commercial piolt s liecnse.Jimmy Savile: The Reckoning actor Steve Coogan praised but critics say drama adds little
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Steve Coogan: We ignore the imbalance between the rich and the poor
Have spent a lot of time in Greece in The Last period of rotation of the greed of his new Film, and The Last series of The Trip - Steve Coogan is in a philosophical mood.
reflection on capitalism and his own career (from the inside of a fancy hotel in London), he is poised, like Pericles, and not ready for the "finger-pointing" on the retail industry.
"I believe Plato said," If you have no enemies, then you have no real friends"," the actor muses.
"Because I can't be fired for various things, I think, by [only] one person, so I can afford to annoy some people along the way. "
In greed, Coogan and Director Michael Winterbottom goal of the billionaire bosses of multi-national companies, he says, are turning on "massive profits", while the factories They pay in developing countries such as Sri Lanka to their employees for around £3 per day.
"That's not a secret," says Coogan. "But no one talks about them.
"Nothing we say in the Film is not all that is a matter of public records. What we do the light is on want that. "
'elephant in The Room 'at a time, in the formerly "fringe" or "eccentric" subjects such as gender politics and environmental concerns are now part of the "national dialogue", the 54-year-old looks, such as "exploitation" as a yet unspoken truth.
"was It so, we woke up one morning, and began recycling. It happens gradually, and The Conversation gets louder, so it is something that you do not agree maybe, but you can't ignore.
"now, you can ignore it and Most People ignore the huge imbalance between the rich and the poor, because it is the elephant in The Room , and it is embarrassing to talk about it "
greed is only a letter away from the Green, and although Coogan the character of Sir Richard McCreadie is fictitious, although loosely based on the controversial entrepreneur Sir Philip Green , Coogan says, the film "is a direct attack on him".
Green, the Monaco-based Arcadia Group Chairman, was and was,
Arcadia, which owns Topshop, has denied, with sweatshops, and if it is "found a supplier violated was clearly our strict code of conduct (code of conduct".
The Company has not responded to the Bbc request for comment on the release of greed.
"There are Many people who earn their money through the exploitation of people," says Coogan.
"Most of them behave inconspicuously and you don't want to call attention to themselves, but [Green] on the back. For a long time, he was like, 'Check me out, how successful I Am . Look at my money. Look on my parties. Look at my friends.
"Because he's a charismatic figure, it was a good base on which to develop this Film idea. "
Sir Philip Green , with the models/Actresses (from left to right), Suki Waterhouse , Kate Moss , Cara Delevingne , Sienna Miller and Naomi Campbell in 2014Coogan hope the character is thinking, the audience, twice The Price of fast fashion, "wince" and laugh in equal measure.
"Even if he is not to be nice to people, he has a funny turn of phrase, so you go along for The Ride and this is important," he says.
"If it's behavior is just disgusting, reprehensible, then you are not going to stay around for too long. "
As The Creator of one of the Country 's most beautiful disgusting Comedy characters, Alan Partridge , Coogan is not exactly short of a bob or two himself, and he was not averse to the High Life .
"in the past, I was a Party Animal , but not for a long time," he says.
has collected recently, the TV Funny Man and for more serious roles in Philomena and Stan & Ollie.
He is also collected on behalf of the Labour Party and the Bbc - as "second only to the NHS in its cultural significance for the Country " - as well as against the covert activities of some of the groups of The British tabloid press.
Coogan gave evidence to the Leveson inquiry, after he had hacked his phone, and was.
'Rise like lions'In the new film, which features Isla Fisher , David Mitchell , and a cameo appearance by, McGreadie appears in front of a similar panel to explain his dodgy off-shore operations and work practices. The story revolves around to repair a decadent, star-studded birthday party thrown on The Greek island of Mykonos to help his reputation.
It is similar, triggered by Green in Real Life , but with an additional asylum-seeker side story, gladiator, metaphors, and, Oh Yes, a lion.
"I suppose you could. in relation to [Percy Bysshe] Shelley's call to arms," says Coogan, prior to the Start in a (almost) word-perfect, last verse of the Romantic poets Masque of Anarchy is
"'Rise like lions after Slumber / In unvanquishable number". What is it? 'Free your chains to earth like dew, the / are in the bedroom They were placed: ye are Many - They are few. '"
"I'm going to assume that Michael [Winterbottom, the Director], the metaphor that way," he laughs. "But, there is a lion in him."
Steve Coogan had the most brilliant white smile money could buy, except for The Role of Richard McCreadie in greed,promotional interviews, Coogan explains that he would not be grandstanding on the issues raised in the Film as "the film makes for us."
The actor and Director team have worked together for decades, on films such as 24 Hour Party People (talking of parties) and the popular naturalistic TV-sitcom The Trip .
Coogan and Rob Brydon play exaggerated versions of themselves in the seeming mockumentary Road Trip series, which it has taken in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and on to Greece next month, for what he admits could be The Last time.
"I was not quite sure that it was The Last ," he hesitates. "I felt like it could be, and probably really should. But then it started to feel like it had a finality to it.
"I think knew that Michael secretly already, it would be The Last .
"So it was sad. I'm sure in a few years I'll feel very nostalgic about our trips, but if you are in The Middle you're just in the moment. "
Coogan, says Rob Brydon impression of him, he plays regularly in The Trip , is not only confesses to "a cartoon"The Middletonian that he observed in fact, every episode, but enjoys, such as the "half-fictional /half-real" nature of The Show there is a deeper personal "resonance". "It's more like looking through a box of old photos. "
It offers him the "license" to say things that he "would not say that in reality, even if I might think you are".
"That's part of what made it pleasant to think,;" When I said this, I would think, in reality, I was a complete ass!'
"We take a grain of truth and grow a little distorted. "
as well as The Trip , Coogan will reprise his role as Alan in the next Trip report-TV-series (the ), and a second series of This Time .
The TV sitcom brought back The Infamous transmitter and pulled him in the modern, post #MeToo world, in agonisingly funny fashion.
Alan Partridge back to our screens last year at This Time , was again commissioned by the Bbc"It is much better to deal with the stuff deemed not to deal with it," says Coogan, coping with the Sexual Politics more in an upcoming new Channel 4 comedy, chivalry, with Sarah Solemani .
"is Sometimes The Best way to talk about things, is a fictional comic book story, because it makes it possible to talk of responsibility, it is more free. "
Partridge once his "common Latin boasted," not Greek, but, like Plato, he is not against the enemies. The Last time he found himself involved with the Irish rebel singers, who live on the Bbc .
"It felt States as a punk-rock moment," Coogan proud of.
"I'm half British and half Irish, and this is where They bumped into each other. "
greed is on the 21. February
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Source of news: bbc.com