Stephen Graham (actor)
Stephen Graham ( born August 3, 1973 in Kirkby, Merseyside, England ) is a British actor.
Life
At the beginning of his film career, he played minor roles in various television movies and British television series. Among other things, in the BBC soap opera produced by Coronation Street. As a stage actor he was in the theaters Bush, the Everyman Liverpool and Bristol Old Vic on stage.
His breakthrough came in 2000 when Tommy, the amateur boxing promoter on the side of Jason Statham, Guy Ritchie's Snatch in - pigs and diamonds. This role Graham came by chance, because actually he came only to accompany a friend to the audition. For his role in Snatch Graham took off his Liverpudlian accent ( Scouse ) and played the role with the London Cockney dialect. In 2001 he played Sgt Myron Ranney in the ten-part miniseries Band of Brothers - Band of Brothers, after which he starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day- Lewis in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York. His role as a skinhead Combo in Shane Meadows ' This Is England earned him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the British Independent Film Awards 2006.
In the same year Stephen Graham landed a role in the BBC series The Innocence Project, which was discontinued after only eight episodes due to poor ratings. Stephen Graham is also seen in Madonna's directorial debut Filth and Wisdom, which celebrated its premiere at the 2008 Berlinale. In 2009 he played the role of American gangster and bank robber Baby Face Nelson on the side of Johnny Depp and the Oscar winners Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard in Michael Mann's Public Enemies.
In addition, Stephen Graham embodied in the 2009 film The Damned United - The eternal enemy Billy Bremner, former football player and manager of Leeds United. For this role, he wore a red-haired wig. In the HBO series Boardwalk Empire Graham plays the role of Al Capone. In 2011, he starred opposite Johnny Depp in the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
Graham also acted in several videos for the band Arctic Monkeys with - among other things in the video for When The Sun Goes Down and the MATCHING short film Scummy Man, last in Fluorescent Adolescent.