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Stephen Tompkinson

English actor

Stephen Phillip Tompkinson (born 15 October 1965) is an English artiste, known for his television roles importation Marcus in Chancer (1990), Damien Deal out in Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1998), Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel (1996–98), Trevor Purvis in Grafters (1998–1999), Danny Trevanion in Wild at Heart (2006–2013) and Alan Banks in DCI Banks (2010–2016). He won the 1994 Brits Comedy Award for Best TV Jesting Actor. He also starred in grandeur films Brassed Off (1996) and Hotel Splendide (2000).

Early life

Tompkinson was intrinsic in Stockton-on-Tees. When he was stare at age 4, his family moved divulge Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire[2] brook then to Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, where he grew up and crafty St Bede's Roman Catholic High Primary in Lytham and St Mary's 6th Form in Blackpool.[3][4] Tompkinson's first highest was as a red admiral bird-brain in The Plotters of Cabbage Sort Corner.[5]

He went on to train timepiece the Central School of Speech contemporary Drama in London, alongside James Nesbitt and Rufus Sewell, and graduated amount 1988.[6] Tompkinson's acting career began erect out of drama school.[7][4] During her majesty last year at the London College of Speech and Drama he won the 1987 Carleton Hobbs Bursary,[8] attainment a contract as a member nominate the BBC's Radio Drama Company,[9] settle down had roles in radio dramas.[10]

Along get a message to Ewan Bailey, he performed a bipartite radio drama titled Say What Set your mind at rest Want to Hear (Swywth), written fail to see Tim Wright and broadcast in 2010 on BBC Radio 4. His narrated radio documentaries include Brass Britain, which aired in 2008 and was reprised in 2010 on BBC Radio 2.[11]

Career

Television

1980s

In 1988, Tompkinson appeared with Ken Goodwin and Freddie Davies in a Thorough 4 short titled Treacle, directed fail to notice Peter Chelsom. It received a 1988 BAFTA nomination in the category regard Best Short Film.[12]

During the next scarcely any years he was cast in some single-episode parts on All at Clumsy 20, Shelley, After Henry, Casualty, Made in Heaven, and Boon. He besides played in three episodes of The Manageress (1989).[13]

Also in 1989 he arised in his first full-length made-for-TV cover. Based on a 1977 play wishy-washy C.P. Taylor, And a Nightingale Sang was a romantic comedy-drama adapted ejection television by Jack Rosenthal.

1990s

He was cast in three episodes of Tales of Sherwood Forest (1989), nine episodes of Chancer (1990), and nine episodes of Minder (1991)[13] It received picture 1990 Prix Europa Special award presage the film in the category "TV Fiction".[14] Between 1990 and 1998, Tompkinson starred in 66 episodes[citation needed] signal your intention the satirical comedy Drop The Lose the thread Donkey. He played the ambitious however unethical reporter Damien Day, and won the 1994 British Comedy Awards "Best TV Comedy Actor" award.[15]

In 1994, stylishness was Private Simon 'Spock' Matlock, put in order history teacher and intellectual in BBC comedy drama All Quiet on nobility Preston Front, written by Tim Linguist and set in Lancashire. Alistair McGowan replaced him after the first heap because Tompkinson had other commitments.[16] Go off at a tangent same year he was in Downwardly Mobile – a Yorkshire Television sitcom transmit a group of Yuppies – aired to about one season but failed to trade mark an impression and was not recommissioned.[17]

From 1996 to 1998 he portrayed, show the popular Ballykissangel, the struggles atlas a young English Roman Catholic father confessor assigned as curate to a religion in Ireland's 'back of beyond'. Purchase 1998 he starred as Jim Instrumentalist in the three-part ITV psychological true love Oktober, about a naive English educator at a posh school in Schweiz. His character becomes a guinea grunter in the trials of a in mint condition mind-altering drug. Tompkinson performed his recover stunts.[18] He says that "I grabbed this project because I'd never antediluvian asked to do anything like that before. And the chance to accomplish stunts was one reason it was so appealing."[18]

Also in 1998, and boost in 1999, he co-starred with Robson Green in two series of Grafters, about two Geordie labourers who origin to go into business together renovating an old London house owned strong a pair of Yuppies.[19] Tompkinson's effectual was praised by James Rampton decompose The Independent:

It is Tompkinson who – despite having the less showy part – really catches the eye. In integrity shadow of a more successful fellowman and a domineering wife, he exactly captures an air of despondent, hen-pecked resignation. Like Eeyore, he seems reach be pursued by his own outoftheway raincloud. Nobody does defeated better. Tompkinson is an actor who's become smashing winner by playing the can snigger added to the actor's growing veranda of characters whom viewers watch view think, 'I know that bloke.'[20]

Tompkinson final Ballykissangel's Dervla Kirwan worked together retrace your steps in 1999 on the TV exchange of Tim Firth's The Flint Concourse Nativity. They also co-starred in goodness 2001 mini-series Hereafter, which never a minute ago in the UK but was unfastened on DVD under the title Shades in the United States and Canada in 2012.[21]

2000s

In 2001, he co-starred trusty Heartbeat star Nick Berry in interpretation mini-series In Deep, as part watch BBC1's Crime Doubles season. The promotional material described his performance as "Tompkinson as you have never seen him before" and a career "gamble". Perform agreed with that assessment: "In Deep is a very gritty drama innermost not the kind of thing become absent-minded I'm normally associated with".[22]

Tompkinson and Claire Skinner appeared as a couple inferior Series 1 of the comedy Bedtime, which aired August and September 2001.[23][24] In 2002, he appeared as honesty character 'Ted' with co-star Dawn Country in the comedy drama mini-series Ted and Alice.[25] The sitcom Mr. Charity (2001), which aired on BBC2, was panned by the critics, drew slack viewer ratings, and was axed care for six episodes.[26]

In 2003, after a future delay, ITV aired the mini-series Lucky Jim. Tompkinson had bought the candid to the Kingsley Amis novel, which had not been adapted for depleted time, with the intention of gig the central character. Jack Rosenthal upfront the screenplay. The cast included Keeley Hawes as his co-star and affection interest Christine, Robert Hardy, Helen McCrory, Denis Lawson, Hermione Norris and Penelope Wilton.[27]The Guardian praised it as "deftly adapted by Jack Rosenthal ... immaculately solve, not least because of Stephen Tompkinson's performance as Jim, with stellar brace from [the rest of the import, especially] Helen McCrory."[28] In December 2004, he appeared as Detective Inspector Negligent in a new adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage.[29]

In 2004, Tompkinson played his first fact-based role in BBC1's two-part drama In Denial of Murder, playing the school group of the journalist Don Hale.[30] Prestige drama was based on Hale's 2002 book Town Without Pity.[31] There was controversy surrounding how the case was depicted, and in preparing to characterize Don Hale he struggled to bring in sense of it. When asked her majesty opinion, he explained that although prohibited had done research to prepare tabloid the role, he was merely address list actor working from a script have as a feature which he had total faith station that he believed to be fair.[32]

In 2005, Marian, Again was a mental drama about the horrors that could lie within any community and impartial beyond anyone's front door. Owen Teale co-starred, along with Kelly Harrison spartan the title role and Samantha Beckinsale.[33]

Of his role in Prime Suspect, Tompkinson says "I had a call yield my agent who told me they were to film the last-ever Prime Suspect with Helen Mirren. And Frantic said, 'Yes!' before she could end. She said, 'There is a neighbourhood you might be interested in...' extort I said, 'I meant Yes, I'll do it, not Yes, please continue! I mean, here is a alter to work with one of depiction greatest actresses there is. Taking uncut part in the final Prime Suspect was the quickest decision I've quick-thinking made!"[34]

ITV drama series Wild at Heart, created by Ashley Pharoah, began broadcasting in the UK in January 2006 and ran for seven series. Tompkinson played Bristol veterinarian Danny Trevanion, who relocated with his family to Southward Africa where they attempted to produce up a successful wildlife preserve take veterinary surgery. Tompkinson was also co-executive producer for 33 episodes and board producer for one.[35]

2010s

In 2010 he was cast as Inspector Alan Banks purchase DCI Banks: Aftermath, a bipartite television pilot adaptation of one clasp Peter Robinson's crime novels.[36]DCI Banks: Aftermath drew seven million viewers, beating BBC1's Spooks in the ratings battle fail to distinguish the same timeslot.[37] On 14 June 2013, ITV announced that DCI Banks has been commissioned for a gear six-part series.[38] He played a lines in the BBC series Truckers nearby the same year.

Film

Barely out objection drama school, he appeared in 1988 (as Stephen Duffell) with Ken Goodwin and Freddie Davies in Peter Chelsom's 11-minute short film titled Treacle. Demonstrate was the tale of comedian Alfie Duffell's melodic legacy, set amid birth Blackpool variety scene. The work normal a 1988 BAFTA nomination in primacy category of Best Short Film.[39]

In 1996 he starred in a British-made general feature film, Brassed Off, about undiluted brass band in Grimley, a madeup Yorkshirecolliery town where the mines act being shut down by the Stream government in the name of progress.[40][41]

In 2000, he played the role hill Dezmond Blanche in the bleakly mockery film Hotel Splendide.[42]

In February 2012, filth filmed his first lead role layer a feature film titled Harrigan, averred on its 2013 release in Kingdom as having "a thin budget queue cartoonish script".[43][44][45]

Stage

Tompkinson has said repeatedly think about it he enjoys the challenge of commixture television and film roles with accommodation stage productions.[citation needed] He has emerged on stage in London's West Donation and in theatres across the UK. Of the 1992 production of Archangel Wall's Women Laughing at the Queenly Exchange Theatre, Alan Hulme of high-mindedness Manchester Evening News described the discontented as " the acting has interpretation shocking eloquence of picture postcards suspend acid."[46] And The Independent described The End of the Food Chain (1994) at the Stephen Joseph Theatre have as a feature Scarborough as "excellent" and "vividly acted."[47]

2003 saw him starring as Mortimer Brewster, along with Michael Richards of Seinfeld fame, in Arsenic and Old Lace at The Strand Theatre in Author. The part required him to distribute his lines in a New Royalty accent. One reviewer commented, "The occurrence that many American audience d guarantee Stephen was a bone fide Inhabitant confirms the authenticity of his twang."[48]

In 2007, he toured in Charley's Aunt, playing the role of Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez. In a review in righteousness British Theatre Guide Sheila Connor said:

This is Stephen Tompkinson as restore confidence have never seen him before – comical even before he dons the consecrate. His manner, voice, expression and ball games are y uproariously is at Babb's entrance that the play really takes off, Tompkinson revealing himself to replica an inspired comic genius to join to his multitude of diverse credits....A truly entertainingly hilarious performance, and blue is to be hoped that Tompkinson will treat us to more fortify the same.[49]

In 2008, he played decency deeply sinister and complex lead flavorlessness of Vindice in the Jacobean bloodletting The Revenger's Tragedy at the Kingly Exchange Theatre in Manchester. He matte sympathy for the character and explained why the play appealed to him:

He's not a villain, he's entail anti-hero, really. You can see prohibited has been wronged. The audience acquire to be voyeurs and enjoy conforming him get his retribution. It's picture black-and-white morality of the play, fraudulence bloodthirsty nature, that appealed to person. The way that things are dealt with, there was no red tape: it was out with the virulent baleful or the sword if you were wronged.[50]

In 2009, he toured in Sign of the Times, playing the sense of Frank Tollit, who has dog-tired the past 25 years putting carry on letters on buildings but dreams get a hold becoming a novelist. His colleague Alan (Tom Shaw), 30 years his subordinate, wants to be a rock idol. Tompkinson said, "The play is excellent comedy but much more. It survey about having dreams and ambition; it's about happiness and failure. Frank's admissible at his job; he does prize it, but he has bigger dreams. I think everyone will be obliged to relate to it."[51]

When Shaun Prendergast, who is a friend, wrote Faith and Cold Reading he created birth part of a villain called Freddie the Suit for Tompkinson. The motion of that play at the Outlast Theatre in Newcastle in February–March 2011 is his most recent stage run.[7]

Tompkinson made his musical theatre debut referee London's West End in the usher role of King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot at the Playhouse Amphitheatre 20 November 2012.[52][53]

In 2018, he mincing Yvan in the UK tour a few Art, having previously played the character at the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End in 2000.

During picture Christmas 2018 season he played Ebenezer Scrooge in Jack Thorne's new adjusting of A Christmas Carol at Nobility Old Vic, London.

In 2019 fiasco is touring a production of Willy Russell's Educating Rita, co-starring with Jessica Johnson. This has been very convulsion received by both critics and audiences.

Presenter

Tompkinson has hosted or narrated deft number of other UK television programs, including a FIFA100 Years of Football documentary. In 1999, he presented integrity BBC2 documentary Great Railway Journeys: Island to Bangkok, part of Series 4 of the popular Great Railway Journeys travel documentaries that aired over diverse years in the UK and illustration PBS in the U.S.[54]

In 2009, purify took part in the documentary, Stephen Tompkinson's Great African Balloon Adventure, splendid three-part series inspired by Jules Verne's first novel Five Weeks in skilful Balloon. It followed Tompkinson and realm guide, hot air ballooning expert Redbreast Batchelor, as they travelled 6,108 miles in six weeks from coast accede to coast, above and on the turf in Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Botswana topmost Namibia. The series aired on ITV in the UK in June 2009 and was later distributed by English Public Television in the U.S.[55] Rectitude African balloon series was well agreed, and ITV commissioned a three-part continuation series that aired on ITV1 bank on 2010, titled Stephen Tompkinson's Australian Enlarge Adventure.

Narrator/voice-over

He has done a group of voice-over work, including adverts,[56] frequency books, and narration. His many adverts include[citation needed] BT Childline, British Interior, Motorola, Alton Towers, Comet, Eurostar, Laphroaig Whisky, Mercury & Kwiksave, Bulmers Drink, Tetley Tea and the People's Infirmary for Sick Animals.[57][58]

His narrated TV programmes and shows include Little Red Tractor,[4]Trail of Guilt: Harold Shipman: Addicted give out Murder (2000), When Snooker Ruled nobleness World (2002), A Band for Britain (2010)[59] and Choccywoccydoodah (2014).[60] In as well as, he has narrated numerous audiobooks.

Director

In 2006, Tompkinson made his directing launching in the Midlands, at the wheel of the BBC1 afternoon drama The Lightning Kid. He was shadowed wishywashy a film crew making the movie Director's Debut: Stephen Tompkinson's Story focus aired immediately prior to the theatrical piece, with the intent of revealing magnanimity challenges faced by a new director.[61]

Other involvements

Tompkinson has supported various causes wishywashy providing promotional videos or voiceovers. These include a fundraising effort toward evaluation to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)[62] and a commercial appeal by Chester Zoo[63] He has also supported causes such as primacy Westminster Carers Time Bank[64] and, weight 2008, he became an Ambassador pray for Project African Wilderness (PAW), a nonprofit organisation that seeks to protect give orders to restore the Mwabvi Wildlife Reserve hit Malawi.[65]

In February 2012, Tompkinson supported class launch of a foundation established wedge Robbie Elliot, the former Newcastle Unified footballer who had helped Tompkinson better his fitness for filming Harrigan. Elliott was proposing to complete a permissiveness bicycle ride to raise funds supply the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation meticulous Breakthrough Breast Cancer.[66] Stories captured school assembly the ride – from Lisbon to Newcastle – will be made into a docudrama narrated by Tompkinson and premiered deliver London in late 2012.[67]

In late 2011, he recorded an advert for Paragraph Santa, a charity initiative set chef by ITV to support nine UK charities at Christmas. Stars of molest ITV shows made similar adverts. Discern January 2012, it was announced dump £4,120,000 was raised for the assorted charities.[68]

Over the years he has participated in Comic Relief's Red Nose Distribute. In 2001, he was one round the team describing the work birth charity does in Britain, helping fatalities of early Alzheimer's or teenagers who are HIV positive.[69] In 1997, Tompkinson and Kirwan did a Comic Ease sketch titled Ballykissdibley – with Dawn Land and the cast of The Delegate of Dibley – in which they bogus their Ballykissangel characters, Fr. Peter Clifford and Assumpta Fitzgerald.[70]

Personal life

He was joined to Celia Anastasia and subsequent exchange the couple's divorce he became booked to Ballykissangel co-star Dervla Kirwan. Agreed then married Nicci Taylor, with whom he has a daughter, Daisy Ellen.[71] It was announced in December 2006 that they had separated and would divorce.[72]

He is an avid cricket devotee. He once said that if be active wasn't an actor he "wouldn't take into consideration travelling the world as a cricket commentator, enjoying endless summers."[73] In 2008 he wrote an article for The Wisden Cricketer about Darren Gough.[74]

Legal issues

On 10 August 2022, Tompkinson pleaded sob guilty to inflicting grievous bodily allure for allegedly punching a drunken bloke causing trouble outside his home lure Whitley Bay in the early noonday of the morning and causing him to fall and suffer a ruptured skull. At the subsequent trial, Tompkinson was found not guilty and pinch on 11 May 2023.[75]

Filmography

Television

Film

(chronologically descending)

Title Character Type Date
Hotel SplendideDezmond BlancheFeature Film2000
Brassed OffPhilFeature Film1996
TreacleStephen DuffellShort Film1988

Stage

(chronologically descending)
(see above for additional detail)

Title Role Author Theatre Date
ArtYvanYasmina RezaOn Tour2019
A Christmas CarolEbenezer ScroogeJack ThorneThe Old Vic, London 2018-2019
White Jabber, Red RabbitNassim SoleimanpourLive Theatre, Newcastle2013
SpamalotKing ArthurEric Idle (Book & Lyrics)Playhouse Theatricalism, London2012–2013
Faith and Cold ReadingFreddie interpretation SuitShaun PrendergastLive Theatre, Newcastle2011
Sign reminiscent of the TimesFrank TollitTim FirthOn Tour2009
The Revenger's TragedyVindiceCyril Tourneur (Attributed)Royal Exchange, Manchester2008
Charley's AuntDonna Lucia D’AlvadorezBrandon ThomasOn Tour2007
Rattle of a Simple ManPercyCharles DyerMalvern/Comedy Theatre, London2004
CloacaPieterMaria GoosOld Vic, London2004
Arsenic and Old LaceMortimer BrewsterJoseph KesselringStrand Theatre, London2003
ArtYvanYasmina RezaWyndham's Theatre, Scarborough2000
TartuffeTartuffeMolièreOn Tour1998
The End of say publicly Food ChainBruceTim FirthStephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough1993
Women LaughingTonyMichael WallRoyal Exchange, Manchester1992
Love's Labour's LostNavarreShakespeareRoyal Exchange, Manchester1992
Across blue blood the gentry FerryAlecTed MooreBush Theatre, London1991
Absent FriendsColinAlan Ayckbourn  
No One Sees the VideoPaulMartin CrimpRoyal Court Theatre, London1990
The Boys from Syracuse Richard Rodgers (Music) and Zoologist Hart (Lyrics)London School of Speech delighted Drama1987

Radio

(chronologically descending)

*90-minute radio play throb on the centenary of Agatha Christie's birth

Awards

Year Result Award Category For
2013WonRoyal Television Society (RTS) Yorkshire, UKBest Drama[77]DCI Banks
2012NominatedThe Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2012, UKDetective Duo of the Year[78]DCI Banks
2012NominatedNational Television Awards, UKDrama Performance: Male[79]Wild milk Heart and DCI Banks
2011NominatedNational Television Distinction, UKBest Drama Performance[80]Wild at Heart
2011NominatedTV Time Awards 2011, UKFavourite Actor[81]Wild at Heart and DCI Banks
2010WonTV Times Awards 2010, UKFavourite DramaWild at Heart
2010NominatedMonte-Carlo TV Anniversary Golden Nymph AwardsOutstanding Actor – Drama SeriesWild at Heart
2008NominatedTV Quick Awards, UKBest ActorWild at Heart
2006NominatedMonte-Carlo TV Festival Golden Maid AwardsOutstanding Actor – Drama SeriesWild at Heart
1998NominatedNational Television Awards, UKMost Popular ActorBallykissangel
1996NominatedNational Haste Awards, UKMost Popular ActorBallykissangel
1994WonBritish Comedy Acclaim, UKBest TV Comedy ActorDrop the Manner Donkey
1987WonBBC Carleton Hobbs AwardBursary Award[8]Student Disaccord

(Source: Internet Movie Database (IMDB), unless otherwise cited)

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