There’s a familiar image of Stephen Merchant: the towering co-creator of The Office standing next to Ricky Gervais, often in Gervais’s shadow. But Merchant has quietly built a solo career spanning Hollywood…
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There aren’t many comedians you can spot from across a crowded room, but at 6 ft 7 in, Stephen Merchant has never blended into a background. You’ve probably felt his influence even…
Few comedy co-creators carve as distinct a path as Stephen Merchant, and it’s not just because he towers over his peers. Most fans know him as the tall sidekick in Ricky Gervais’s…
Some actors get biography questions; Elijah Wood gets a fact-check. Public records settle the core: he was born Elijah Jordan Wood on January 28, 1981, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Encyclopaedia Britannica…
Ask most people to name a British Muslim actor who also raps and owns an Oscar, and Riz Ahmed is usually the answer. His public record includes an Academy Award for The…
There’s a small irony in how often Keeley Hazell gets mixed up with a Ted Lasso character who isn’t hers. The model-turned-actress plays Bex, Rupert Mannion’s second wife, on the Apple TV+…
Few actors are as recognizable as Steve Harrington and as deliberately anonymous as the man playing him — Joe Keery spent the Stranger Things years turning a hit role into a launchpad…
There’s a strange pleasure in watching someone build a second career while the world is distracted by the first. Joe Keery spent years carrying Steve Harrington through Stranger Things (Netflix Tudum (Netflix’s…
Few actors have spent the better part of two decades answering questions about a fictional god of mischief, but that’s the burden Tom Hiddleston carries as Loki. Born in Westminster, London, in…
Few British actresses have had their private life picked apart in public as relentlessly as Patsy Kensit — and fewer still have kept a working career going through all of it. She…