Stephen Joseph Graham (born 3 August 1973) is an English actor. He is
best known for playing Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in the film This Is
England (2006) and its television sequels This Is England '86 (2010),
This Is England '88 (2011), and This Is England '90 (2015). His other
film roles include Tommy in Snatch (2000), Shang in Gangs of New York
(2002), Baby Face Nelson in Public Enemies (2009), Anthony "Tony Pro"
Provenzano in The Irishman (2019), and Scrum in the Pirates of the
Caribbean films On Stranger Tides (2011) and Dead Men Tell No Tales
(2017). On television, he has starred in the fifth series of the BBC
One series Line of Duty (2019), as Al Capone in the HBO series
Boardwalk Empire (2010â€"2014), and as Jacob Marley in the BBC/FX
miniseries A Christmas Carol (2019).Stephen Joseph Graham was born on
3 August 1973 in the Northwood area of Kirkby, Lancashire. He was
raised by his mother, a social worker, and his stepfather, a mechanic
who later became a paediatric nurse. He maintained a good relationship
with his biological father, who was half Jamaican and half Swedish. He
attended Overdale Primary School in Kirkby, where he was encouraged to
pursue an acting career at the age of eight by local actor Andrew
Schofield, who had seen him perform as Jim Hawkins in a school
production of Treasure Island. He then continued his education at
Ruffwood Comprehensive and was subsequently introduced to Liverpool's
Everyman Theatre at the age of 14, later going on to train at the Rose
Bruford College of Theatre & Performance.Graham has often portrayed
characters from different British, Irish and American regions. He has
played characters who are Cockney, Welsh, Geordie, Scouse and
Scottish, as well as an Irish gang member in 19th-century New York
City, a 1930s Chicago bank robber, a Brooklyn mobster, a Texan, the
short-fused English nationalist "Combo" in This Is England, and a
Jamaican gangster in Yardie.
best known for playing Andrew "Combo" Gascoigne in the film This Is
England (2006) and its television sequels This Is England '86 (2010),
This Is England '88 (2011), and This Is England '90 (2015). His other
film roles include Tommy in Snatch (2000), Shang in Gangs of New York
(2002), Baby Face Nelson in Public Enemies (2009), Anthony "Tony Pro"
Provenzano in The Irishman (2019), and Scrum in the Pirates of the
Caribbean films On Stranger Tides (2011) and Dead Men Tell No Tales
(2017). On television, he has starred in the fifth series of the BBC
One series Line of Duty (2019), as Al Capone in the HBO series
Boardwalk Empire (2010â€"2014), and as Jacob Marley in the BBC/FX
miniseries A Christmas Carol (2019).Stephen Joseph Graham was born on
3 August 1973 in the Northwood area of Kirkby, Lancashire. He was
raised by his mother, a social worker, and his stepfather, a mechanic
who later became a paediatric nurse. He maintained a good relationship
with his biological father, who was half Jamaican and half Swedish. He
attended Overdale Primary School in Kirkby, where he was encouraged to
pursue an acting career at the age of eight by local actor Andrew
Schofield, who had seen him perform as Jim Hawkins in a school
production of Treasure Island. He then continued his education at
Ruffwood Comprehensive and was subsequently introduced to Liverpool's
Everyman Theatre at the age of 14, later going on to train at the Rose
Bruford College of Theatre & Performance.Graham has often portrayed
characters from different British, Irish and American regions. He has
played characters who are Cockney, Welsh, Geordie, Scouse and
Scottish, as well as an Irish gang member in 19th-century New York
City, a 1930s Chicago bank robber, a Brooklyn mobster, a Texan, the
short-fused English nationalist "Combo" in This Is England, and a
Jamaican gangster in Yardie.
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