Stephen Graham

Stephen Graham

CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
GenderMale
BirthdayAug 3, 1973
BiographyStephen Joseph Graham (born 3 August 1973) is an English actor, producer, and screenwriter. He has received nominations for seven British Academy Television Awards (winning one) and one British Academy Film Award. He has also won three Primetime Emmy Awards, one Golden Globe Award and two Actor Awards, among other accolades.

Graham began his career in 1990, with early notable roles in Snatch (2000) and Gangs of New York (2002), before his breakthrough role as Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in the film This Is England (2006). His film appearances include Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), Rocketman (2019), The Irishman (2019), Boiling Point (2021) and its sequel series of the same name (2023), and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) and its sequel Venom: The Last Dance (2024).

On television, Graham reprised his role as Combo in This Is England '86, This Is England '88, and This Is England '90. He also starred in the drama Little Boy Blue; the fifth series of Line of Duty; HBO series Boardwalk Empire; BBC drama Time; and the sixth series of Peaky Blinders. He created, co-wrote and executively produced the miniseries Adolescence (2025) on Netflix, in which he also appeared, and won all of three nominations at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards for it. He also starred in A Thousand Blows (2025), created by Steven Knight.

In 2020 Graham co-founded the production company Matriarch Productions with his wife and fellow actor, Hannah Walters. For services to drama, Graham was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours.

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