Stephen Merchant Movies and Career Information

Stephen James 'Steve' Merchant (born November 24, 1974) is a British writer, director, radio presenter, and comic actor. He is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom The Office, as the co-writer, co-director and a co-star of Extras, and as the co-host of The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio (for which the show won a bronze Sony Award), podcast, audiobook and television-show forms. And his voice overs for the Barclays adverts. Merchant was born in Bristol, England, the son of Jane Elaine (née Hibbs), a nursery nurse, and Ronald John Merchant, an insurance representative. He attended Hanham High School. As he has described in Xfm London shows and podcasts, Merchant was a very shy child, tending to focus more on school work as opposed to sport. His school yearbook predicted that he would enjoy success. Merchant has also described his relatively normal childhood, which is often contrasted with that of his associate Karl Pilkington. Merchant is a graduate of the University of Warwick, Coventry, and a former film reviewer on the student radio station, Radio Warwick where he began his broadcasting career. The