Stephen Mangan Movies and Career Information

Stephen Mangan (born 22 July 1972, London) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Guy Secretan in the television series Green Wing, and Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge. Mangan grew up in Winchmore Hill, North London and attended Haileybury College, Hertfordshire in the same year as Dom Joly. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts in Law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, where his friends included Rachel Weisz and Sue Perkins, Mangan took a year out to nurse his mother, Mary, who was dying of cancer. Weeks after her death, he auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He graduated from RADA in July 1994 and did not pursue lead roles on screen, preferring to take what he saw as the less limited opportunities on the stage. He appeared in Billy Elliot but has said that he didn't immediately realise because when he shot the film it was called Dancer. He has admitted on television, when guest appearing on both Would I Lie to You? and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, that in his younger years he was in a progressive rock band called Aragon that recorded an EP called "The Wizard's Dream." When exactly this was is not specified. His breakthrough television performance