Acting
Steve Coogan
Born 1965-10-14
Middleton, Manchester, England, UK
Department: Acting
Biography
Stephen John "Steve" Coogan (born October 14, 1965) is an English comedian, actor, writer and producer. His best known character in the United Kingdom is Alan Partridge, a socially awkward and politically incorrect regional media personality, who featured in several television series, such as The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge and I'm Alan Partridge. Outside the UK, Coogan is better known for his film roles.
Known For
Prominent works featuring Steve Coogan
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The Simpsons
1989
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Despicable Me 2
2013
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Minions
2015
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Night at the Museum
2006
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The Secret Life of Pets
2016
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Hot Fuzz
2007
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2010
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Despicable Me 3
2017
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
2009
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Tropic Thunder
2008
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (282 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Legends | Don | TV Series | 2026 |
 | Saipan | Mick McCarthy | Movie | 2025 |
 | How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) | Alan Partridge | TV Series | 2025 |
| How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) | Executive Producer | TV Series | 2025 |
| How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) | Writer | TV Series | 2025 |
| How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) | Creator | TV Series | 2025 |
 | The Penguin Lessons | Tom Michell | Movie | 2025 |
 | National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove | Dr Strangelove/Captain Mandrake/President Muffley/Major TJ Kong | Movie | 2025 |
| The Penguin Lessons | Executive Producer | Movie | 2025 |
 | The Academy of Armando | Self | Movie | 2025 |
 | Funboys | Phillip Cantwell | TV Series | 2025 |
 | Brian and Maggie | Brian Walden | TV Series | 2025 |
| Brian and Maggie | Executive Producer | TV Series | 2025 |
 | Mitt liv som Roger Moore | Roger Moore (voice) | TV Series | 2024 |
 | From Roger Moore with Love | Roger Moore (voice) | Movie | 2024 |
 | Joker: Folie à Deux | Paddy Meyers | Movie | 2024 |
 | Despicable Me 4 | Silas (voice) | Movie | 2024 |
 | Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy | Self | Movie | 2023 |
 | The Reckoning | Jimmy Savile | TV Series | 2023 |
 | Alan Partridge - Stratagem | Alan Partridge/Martin Brennan | Movie | 2023 |
| Alan Partridge - Stratagem | Writer | Movie | 2023 |
 | Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial | Self | Movie | 2023 |
 | The Lost King | John Langley | Movie | 2022 |
| The Lost King | Producer | Movie | 2022 |
| The Lost King | Writer | Movie | 2022 |
 | Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg | Self – Actor | TV Series | 2022 |
| Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg | Self | TV Series | 2022 |
 | The Sandman | Barnabas (voice) | TV Series | 2022 |
 | Minions: The Rise of Gru | Silas Ramsbottom (voice) | Movie | 2022 |
 | Chivalry | Cameron | TV Series | 2022 |
| Chivalry | Writer | TV Series | 2022 |
 | The Witchfinder | Script Consultant | TV Series | 2022 |
 | Stephen | DCI Clive Driscoll | TV Series | 2021 |
 | The Trip to Greece | Steve | Movie | 2020 |
 | Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy | Self | Movie | 2020 |
 | The Big Night In | Steve Coogan | Movie | 2020 |
 | Newscast | Self | TV Series | 2020 |
 | My Zoe | Executive Producer | Movie | 2019 |
 | Greed | Sir Richard McCreadie | Movie | 2019 |
 | The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan | Self | TV Series | 2019 |
 | What We Do in the Shadows | Lord Roderick Cravensworth | TV Series | 2019 |
 | The Professor and the Madman | Frederick James Furnivall | Movie | 2019 |
 | This Time with Alan Partridge | Alan Partridge | TV Series | 2019 |
 | Stan & Ollie | Stanley "Stan" Laurel | Movie | 2018 |
 | Holmes & Watson | Gustav Klinger (uncredited) | Movie | 2018 |
 | Ideal Home | Erasmus | Movie | 2018 |
 | High & Dry | Executive Producer | TV Series | 2018 |
 | Hot Air | Lionel | Movie | 2018 |
| Hot Air | Executive Producer | Movie | 2018 |
 | Irreplaceable You | Mitch | Movie | 2018 |
 | Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? | Himself | Movie | 2017 |
| Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? | Executive Producer | Movie | 2017 |
 | The Trip to Spain | Steve | Movie | 2017 |
 | Despicable Me 3 | Fritz / Silas Ramsbottom (voice) | Movie | 2017 |
 | Shepherds and Butchers | John Weber | Movie | 2017 |
 | The Dinner | Paul Lohman | Movie | 2017 |
 | Dying Laughing | Self | Movie | 2017 |
 | Rules Don't Apply | Colonel Nigel Briggs | Movie | 2016 |
 | Zapped | Malador | TV Series | 2016 |
| Zapped | Feffenhoffer | TV Series | 2016 |
| Zapped | Executive Producer | TV Series | 2016 |
 | Mindhorn | Peter Easterman | Movie | 2016 |
| Mindhorn | Executive Producer | Movie | 2016 |
 | Dancer | Executive Producer | Movie | 2016 |
 | British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves | Self / Alan Partridge | Movie | 2016 |
 | John Bishop: In Conversation with... | Self | TV Series | 2016 |
 | The Secret Life of Pets | Ozone / Reginald (voice) | Movie | 2016 |
 | Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle | Alan Partridge | Movie | 2016 |
| Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle | Writer | Movie | 2016 |
| Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle | Executive Producer | Movie | 2016 |
 | TFI Friday | Self | TV Series | 2015 |
 | Minions | Professor Flux / Tower Guard (voice) | Movie | 2015 |
 | HAPPYish | Thom Payne | TV Series | 2015 |
 | Misery Loves Comedy | Self | Movie | 2015 |
 | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Octavius | Movie | 2014 |
 | The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies | Himself | TV Series | 2014 |
 | Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) | Self | TV Series | 2014 |
 | Northern Soul | Mr. Banks | Movie | 2014 |
 | The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill | Self | Movie | 2014 |
 | One Rogue Reporter | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2014 |
 | The Trip to Italy | Steve | Movie | 2014 |
 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | TV Series | 2014 |
 | Off Camera with Sam Jones | Self | TV Series | 2014 |
 | Philomena | Martin Sixsmith | Movie | 2013 |
| Philomena | Producer | Movie | 2013 |
| Philomena | Screenplay | Movie | 2013 |
| Steve Coogan: Stand Up Down Under | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2013 | |
 | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Alan Partridge | Movie | 2013 |
| Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Writer | Movie | 2013 |
| Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Executive Producer | Movie | 2013 |
 | Despicable Me 2 | Silas (voice) | Movie | 2013 |
 | What Maisie Knew | Beale | Movie | 2013 |
 | The Look of Love | Paul Raymond | Movie | 2013 |
 | The Last Leg | Self | TV Series | 2013 |
| Doubt | Vincent Calzonetti | Movie | 2013 | |
 | Uncle Wormsley's Christmas | Narrator | Movie | 2012 |
 | Moone Boy | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2012 |
 | Ruby Sparks | Langdon Tharp | Movie | 2012 |
 | Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce | Alan Partridge | Movie | 2012 |
| Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce | Writer | Movie | 2012 |
 | Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life | Alan Partridge | Movie | 2012 |
| Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life | Writer | Movie | 2012 |
| Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life | Executive Producer | Movie | 2012 |
 | Evidently... John Cooper Clarke | Himself | Movie | 2012 |
| Comedy Blaps | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2011 | |
| Darkwood Manor | Steve Coogan | Movie | 2011 | |
 | The Jonathan Ross Show | Self | TV Series | 2011 |
 | Our Idiot Brother | Dylan Byng | Movie | 2011 |
 | The Trip | Steve Coogan | Movie | 2011 |
| Chekhov Comedy Shorts | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2010 | |
 | Conan | Self | TV Series | 2010 |
| Conan | Self - Guest | TV Series | 2010 |
 | Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge | Alan Partridge | TV Series | 2010 |
| Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge | Creator | TV Series | 2010 |
 | The Trip | Steve | TV Series | 2010 |
 | I'm Still Here | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Movie | 2010 |
 | The Other Guys | David Ershon | Movie | 2010 |
| Work of Art: The Next Great Artist | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2010 | |
 | Neighbors from Hell | Satan | TV Series | 2010 |
 | Marmaduke | Raisin (voice) | Movie | 2010 |
 | Whatever Happened to Spitting Image? | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2010 |
 | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Hades | Movie | 2010 |
 | Marvin | Narrator | Movie | 2010 |
 | Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - Theatrical Release | Self | Movie | 2010 |
 | Steve Coogan: The Inside Story | Self / Alan Partridge / Various | Movie | 2009 |
| Steve Coogan: The Inside Story | Writer | Movie | 2009 |
 | Monkey Mischief | Octavius | Movie | 2009 |
 | Steve Coogan - Live As Alan Partridge And Other Less Successful Characters | Various | Movie | 2009 |
| Steve Coogan - Live As Alan Partridge And Other Less Successful Characters | Writer | Movie | 2009 |
 | Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story | Self | Movie | 2009 |
 | Live from Studio Five | Self | TV Series | 2009 |
 | What Goes Up | Campbell Babbitt | Movie | 2009 |
 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Octavius | Movie | 2009 |
 | In the Loop | Paul Michaelson | Movie | 2009 |
 | Sunshine | Bing Crosby | TV Series | 2008 |
 | Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness | Damien Cockburn | Movie | 2008 |
| Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness | Director | Movie | 2008 |
| Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness | Writer | Movie | 2008 |
| Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness | Creator | Movie | 2008 |
 | Tropic Thunder | Damien Cockburn | Movie | 2008 |
 | Finding Amanda | Michael Henry | Movie | 2008 |
 | The Mighty Boosh: A Journey Through Time and Space | Himself | Movie | 2008 |
 | Tales of the Riverbank | Roderick (voice) | Movie | 2008 |
 | Hamlet 2 | Dana Marschz | Movie | 2008 |
 | British Film Forever | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2007 |
 | The Making of Marie Antoinette | Self | Movie | 2007 |
| For the Love of God | Graham | Movie | 2007 | |
 | The Graham Norton Show | Self | TV Series | 2007 |
 | Hot Fuzz | Metropolitan Police Inspector (uncredited) | Movie | 2007 |
 | Night at the Museum | Octavius | Movie | 2006 |
 | Snow Cake | Executive Producer | Movie | 2006 |
 | Saxondale: On The Road | Self | Movie | 2006 |
 | Saxondale | Tommy Saxondale | TV Series | 2006 |
| Saxondale | Producer | TV Series | 2006 |
| Saxondale | Writer | TV Series | 2006 |
| Saxondale | Creator | TV Series | 2006 |
 | Marie Antoinette | Ambassador Mercy | Movie | 2006 |
| 1 Leicester Square | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2006 | |
 | When Comedy Changed Forever | Self (archive material) | Movie | 2006 |
 | The Alibi | Ray Elliot | Movie | 2006 |
 | Sensitive Skin | Executive Producer | TV Series | 2005 |
 | Alan Partridge Presents: The Cream of British Comedy | Alan Partridge | Movie | 2005 |
 | A Cock and Bull Story | Tristram Shandy / Walter Shandy / Steve Coogan | Movie | 2005 |
 | Monkey Trousers | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2005 |
 | Happy Endings | Charley | Movie | 2005 |
 | AD/BC: A Rock Opera | Executive Producer | Movie | 2004 |
 | King of Fridges | Executive Producer | Movie | 2004 |
| The Keith Barret Show | Producer | TV Series | 2004 | |
 | Around the World in 80 Days | Phileas Fogg | Movie | 2004 |
 | The Mighty Boosh | Producer | TV Series | 2004 |
| The Mighty Boosh | Executive Producer | TV Series | 2004 |
 | I Am Not an Animal | Mark the Bird (voice) | TV Series | 2004 |
| I Am Not an Animal | Producer | TV Series | 2004 |
| The All Star Comedy Show | Producer | TV Series | 2004 | |
 | Ella Enchanted | Heston (voice) | Movie | 2004 |
 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Steve (segment "Cousins?") | Movie | 2004 |
 | Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown | Self | TV Series | 2004 |
 | Nighty Night | Executive Producer | TV Series | 2004 |
 | The Private Life of Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | Movie | 2003 |
| The Private Life of Samuel Pepys | Executive Producer | Movie | 2003 |
 | Appointment with Dr. Terrible | Interviewee | Movie | 2003 |
| Appointment with Dr. Terrible | Executive Producer | Movie | 2003 |
 | Coogan's Runner | Self – Executive Producer | Movie | 2003 |
 | Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge | Alan Partridge | Movie | 2003 |
| Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge | Writer | Movie | 2003 |
 | Brain Candy | Executive Producer | TV Series | 2003 |
 | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | TV Series | 2003 |
 | Paul and Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich | Duncan Thicket / Pauline Calf / Paul Calf | Movie | 2003 |
| Paul and Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich | Writer | Movie | 2003 |
 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self | TV Series | 2003 |
 | Cruise of the Gods | Nick Lee | Movie | 2002 |
| Cruise of the Gods | Executive Producer | Movie | 2002 |
 | Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe | Blitzen (voice) | Movie | 2002 |
 | Top Gear | Self | TV Series | 2002 |
 | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Alan Partridge - Guest Announcer | TV Series | 2002 |
 | That Tony Wilson | Self | Movie | 2002 |
 | Up in Town | Producer | TV Series | 2002 |
 | 24 Hour Party People | Tony Wilson | Movie | 2002 |
 | Combat Sheep | Cmdr. Harris (voice) | Movie | 2001 |
 | Dr Terrible's House of Horrible | Captain Hans Broken | TV Series | 2001 |
| Dr Terrible's House of Horrible | Nathan Blaze | TV Series | 2001 |
| Dr Terrible's House of Horrible | Dr Donald Baxter | TV Series | 2001 |
| Dr Terrible's House of Horrible | Denham Denham | TV Series | 2001 |
| Dr Terrible's House of Horrible | Lester Crown | TV Series | 2001 |
| Dr Terrible's House of Horrible | Captain Tobias Slater | TV Series | 2001 |
| Dr Terrible's House of Horrible | Executive Producer | TV Series | 2001 |
| Dr Terrible's House of Horrible | Writer | TV Series | 2001 |
 | The Sketch Show | Producer | TV Series | 2001 |
 | Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party | Geoff | Movie | 2001 |
| Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party | Executive Producer | Movie | 2001 |
 | The Parole Officer | Simon Garden | Movie | 2001 |
| The Parole Officer | Writer | Movie | 2001 |
 | Human Remains | Producer | TV Series | 2000 |
 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Dr. Bright | TV Series | 2000 |
 | Marion and Geoff | Associate Producer | TV Series | 2000 |
| Marion and Geoff | Executive Producer | TV Series | 2000 |
 | Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire | Blitzen (voice) | Movie | 1999 |
 | Rude For A Reason: Live from Brixton Academy | Himself | Movie | 1999 |
 | Steve Coogan: The Man Who Thinks He's It | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1999 |
| Steve Coogan: The Man Who Thinks He's It | Writer | Movie | 1999 |
 | Mrs Merton and Malcolm | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1999 |
 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Gnat | Movie | 1998 |
 | All Saints: The Video | Alan Partridge (archive footage) (uncredited) | Movie | 1998 |
 | Bob and Margaret | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1998 |
 | The Revengers' Comedies | Bruce Tick | Movie | 1998 |
 | Parkinson | Self | TV Series | 1998 |
 | I'm Alan Partridge | Alan Partridge | TV Series | 1997 |
| I'm Alan Partridge | Writer | TV Series | 1997 |
| I'm Alan Partridge | Executive Producer | TV Series | 1997 |
| I'm Alan Partridge | Creator | TV Series | 1997 |
 | Introducing Tony Ferrino: Who and Why? A Quest | Tony Ferrino | Movie | 1997 |
 | The Fix | Mike Gabbert | Movie | 1997 |
 | The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon | Tony Ferrino | Movie | 1997 |
| The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon | Songs | Movie | 1997 |
| The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon | Writer | Movie | 1997 |
 | The Wind in the Willows | Mole | Movie | 1996 |
 | The Daily Show | Self | TV Series | 1996 |
 | TFI Friday | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1996 |
 | Alan Partridge's Country Ramble | Alan Partridge | Movie | 1995 |
| Alan Partridge's Country Ramble | Writer | Movie | 1995 |
 | Coogan's Run | Paul Calf / Pauline Calf / Gareth Cheeseman / Tim Fleck / Ernest Moss / Mike Crystal / Guy Slump | TV Series | 1995 |
| Coogan's Run | Writer | TV Series | 1995 |
| Coogan's Run | Additional Writing | TV Series | 1995 |
| Coogan's Run | Creator | TV Series | 1995 |
 | The Frank Skinner Show | Self | TV Series | 1995 |
 | The Indian in the Cupboard | Tommy | Movie | 1995 |
 | The Mrs Merton Show | Self | TV Series | 1995 |
| Pauline Calf's Wedding Video | Paul / Pauline Calf | Movie | 1994 | |
| Pauline Calf's Wedding Video | Writer | Movie | 1994 | |
 | Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge | Alan Partridge | TV Series | 1994 |
| Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge | Creator | TV Series | 1994 |
 | Filth! | Paul Calf/ Pauline Calf | Movie | 1994 |
| Filth! | Writer | Movie | 1994 |
 | Jo Brand Through the Cakehole | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1994 |
 | The Day Today | Alan Partridge / Various Characters | TV Series | 1994 |
| The Day Today | Writer | TV Series | 1994 |
 | Steve Coogan: Live 'n' Lewd | Various | Movie | 1994 |
| Steve Coogan: Live 'n' Lewd | Writer | Movie | 1994 |
 | Paul Calf's Video Diary | Paul Calf / Pauline Calf | Movie | 1993 |
| Paul Calf's Video Diary | Writer | Movie | 1993 |
 | Thatcherworld | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1993 |
 | The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer | Lead Singer of Go West | TV Series | 1993 |
| Harry | Stebbings | TV Series | 1993 | |
 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | TV Series | 1993 |
 | The Dead Good Show | Various | TV Series | 1992 |
| Terry Wogan's Friday Night | Self | TV Series | 1992 | |
 | Spitting Image: Election Special '92 | Various Roles | Movie | 1992 |
 | Amnesty International's Big 30 | Self | Movie | 1991 |
 | Spitting Image: Best Of - Is Nothing Sacred? | Various characters (Voice) | Movie | 1991 |
| Packet of Three | Writer | TV Series | 1991 | |
 | The Word | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1990 |
 | The Simpsons | Rowan Priddis (voice) | TV Series | 1989 |
 | Tales from the Crypt | Danny Skeggs | TV Series | 1989 |
 | Spitting Image: The Sound of Maggie | Various Roles | Movie | 1989 |
 | Resurrected | Youth 2 | Movie | 1989 |
 | Spitting Image | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1984 |
 | Question Time | Self - Panellist | TV Series | 1979 |
 | The Adventures of Drunky | The Devil (voice) | Movie | — |
| The Players | William MacCready | Movie | — | |
| Love Is Not the Answer | Ingo | Movie | — | |
 | Bad Bridgets | Self / Appearance | Movie | — |
| The Players | Executive Producer | Movie | — |