Steve Steen
| Steve Steen | |
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December 26, 1954 Lambeth, London, England |
Steve Steen (born 26 December 1954) is a British television, radio and theatre actor and comedian, known for improvisation.
Whilst a pupil at Clapham College in London, Steen became friends with Jim Sweeney, and together they joined a theatre club in 1972. They wrote and performed in a show which parodied much of the other shows being held in London that year. Then they formed their own theatre company and wrote and toured its productions around the United Kingdom through the 1970's.
In the 1980's Steen and Sweeney moved into television production, appearing together for the first time in 1981 on the ITV children's show CBTV, followed by one of Channel 4's first comedies, Little Armadillos. Around this period Steen appeared in the Ben Elton comedy Happy Families.
Rory Bremner recruited them as resident support performers on his first sketch show for the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 1987 they starred as the Romantic poets Byron and Coleridge (Steen playing Byron) in an episode entitled 'Ink and Incapability' of highly successful Blackadder the Third comedy series.
Steen had a major roles in Sweeney's award winning play Danny's Wake, which was subsequently adapted into a sitcom for B.B.C. Radio 4. Steen continued to play the character of "Billy" throughout the two series. He played the character of "Liam' in the radio of Any Bloke. He also starred as George Melly in B.B.C. Radio 4's adaptation of the Melly's memoir 'Owning Up'.
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