Steve Pemberton
ActingSteve Pemberton is a BAFTA winning actor and writer born in Blackburn, UK. He graduated from Bretton Hall in Yorkshire with a BA (Hons) in Theatre Arts in 1989. After leaving college Steve spent time producing and starring in small-scale theatre productions in London and working part-time for Variety as assistant editor of the International Film Guide. In 1996 Steve and his college friends Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson went to Edinburgh with comedy show The League of Gentlemen, winning the coveted Perrier Comedy prize a year later. The group then went on to record a radio series and four TV series for the BBC as well as staging three live tours and making a film. In 2009 Steve and Reece wrote and starred in the multi-award winning black comedy Psychoville which ran for two series and a Halloween special. The pair's acclaimed anthology show Inside No 9 began in 2014 and Steve was awarded with a BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2019. The show also won BAFTAs for Scripted Comedy and Comedy Writing. Steve lives in North London with his partner and three children.
Known For
Better Man
Peter
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Mr. Prosser
Match Point
Detective Parry
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Vicar
Birthday Girl
Duty sergeant
I Could Never Be Your Woman
Censor
Lassie
Hynes
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Various Characters
The Old Curiosity Shop
Mr. Short
Filmography — Acting
Better Man
Peter
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Mr. Prosser
Match Point
Detective Parry
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Vicar
Birthday Girl
Duty sergeant
I Could Never Be Your Woman
Censor
Lassie
Hynes
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Various Characters
The Old Curiosity Shop
Mr. Short
Mr. Stink
Sir Derek Dimble
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
Chester
Under The Greenwood Tree
Mr. Shiner
Riot at the Rite
Critic
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
Viking (voice)
The First Men in the Moon
Sun
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
Narrator
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Self
The Bad Mother's Handbook
Leo Fairbrother
Worzel Gummidge: Calliope Jane
Mr Braithwaite
Professor Branestawm Returns
Professor Algebrain
Psychoville Halloween Special
Various
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Self
The Hour
Himself
What the Pythons Did Next...
Self
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Self - The League of Gentlemen
Benidorm: 10 Years on Holiday
Himself
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
Tubbs Tattsyrup / Pauline Campbell-Jones / Herr Lipp / Pop / Dave Parkes / Harvey Denton / Charlie Hull / Reenie Calver / Anne Hand / Barry Baggs / Mike Harris / Dr Carlton / Mary
Friends Reunited
Edward Netherton
National Theatre Live: She Stoops to Conquer
Hardcastle
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
various
The Devil of Christmas
The Interrogation of Tony Martin
Tony Martin
Highgate House of Horror
Woodall
Alice in Russialand
Various characters
Worzel Gummidge: Twitchers
Mr Braithwaite
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
Various Characters
Tales from Behind the Crypt
Self
Sardines
Carl
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
Various Characters
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge
Mr Clarke
A Quiet Night In
Eddie
Tom & Gerri
Migg
The 12 Days of Christine
Bobby
Take Rabbit
Man
Last Gasp
Graham
The Understudy
Tony
La Couchette
Jorg