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Stephen John Coogan [2] was born on 14 October 1965 in Middleton, Lancashire, [3] [4] the son of housewife Kathleen (née Coonan) and IBM engineer Anthony "Tony" Coogan. [5] [6] He has four brothers and one sister, [7] and was raised Roman Catholic in what he described as a "lower-middle or upper-working class" family which emphasised the values of education. [8]
The series is from Baby Cow Productions. It is directed by Stephen Frears and written by James Graham, with Steve Coogan starring as television interviewer Brian Walden and Harriet Walter co-starring as former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (released as simply Alan Partridge in the United States) [5] is a 2013 British comedy film starring Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, a fictional presenter he has played on various BBC radio and television shows since 1991.
The Penguin Lessons is a 2024 comedy-drama film directed by Peter Cattaneo and slated for theatrical release in 2025 (premiered at TIFF in the fall of 2024). [1] Adapted by Jeff Pope from Tom Michell's 2016 memoir, the film stars Steve Coogan as Michell, a British teacher who takes a job in Argentina in 1976, and finds his life transformed when he rescues an orphaned penguin from the beach.
The Trip is a British television sitcom and feature film directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalised versions of themselves on a restaurant tour of northern England.
Alan Partridge, an inept broadcaster played by Steve Coogan, becomes the stand-in presenter of This Time after the regular co-host falls ill. [5] According to The Guardian, the show features "Partridgean tirades on everything from hand hygiene (leading him to lurk outside the BBC toilets doing spot-checks on colleagues) to hacking". [5]
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible is a satirical British comedy horror anthology series created by Graham Duff, who co-wrote the series with Steve Coogan. BBC Two broadcast the series in 2001. The title parodies Amicus Productions' anthology film Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965). Coogan presents each episode as Dr. Terrible, and plays various ...
Steve Coogan plays the incompetent but self-satisfied Norwich-based talk show host Alan Partridge, who often insults his guests and humiliates himself in the process. Alan was a spin-off character from the spoof radio show On the Hour (which later transferred to TV as The Day Today ).