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Steve Edge

For other people named Steve Edge, see Steve Edge (disambiguation).

Steve Edge
Edge in 2004
Born (1972-11-02) 2 November 1972 (age 51)
Cannock, Staffordshire, England
MediumTelevision, Comedy
NationalityBritish
Years active1997–present
GenresSituation comedy, sketch comedy
Subject(s)Celebrities, Football, Prison

Steve Edge (born 2 November 1972) is an English actor, writer and former stand-up comedian. He is most famous for his work on Starlings, Phoenix Nights, The Cup, The Visit, Peep Show, Benidorm, The Madame Blanc Mysteries, and the satirical magazine show Star Stories.

Early life and stand-up

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Edge was born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England. He attended Stafford College and the University of Salford. He began his career in 1997 and from then until 2004 worked as a stand-up comedian. From March–November 2004 Steve, Paddy McGuinness, Archie Kelly and Janice Connolly toured a live stand-up show "Jumping on the Bandwagon" in reference to the success of Phoenix Nights. The final show of the tour and the last time he did stand-up was at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool. Edge is most famous for playing Alan, one half of double-act Les Alanos with Les played by Toby Foster in That Peter Kay Thing, Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights and Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere. He reprised the role in 2015 for Phoenix Nights LIVE where the cast performed 16 shows at Manchester Arena and raised £5 million for Comic Relief.

Writing and other work

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Edge was a programme associate/writer on 8 Out of 10 Cats from 2007 to 2011.

He was script editor for the BBC2 comedy The Cup in which he also starred as the lead, Terry McConnell.

In 2009 he wrote the BBC1 show Walk on the Wild Side along with Jason Manford as well as adding the voices to the show, most notably the Marmot repeatedly shouting "Alan".[1]

In 2009 he wrote and narrated BBC3's Almost Famous III its 2010 sequel Almost Famous IV.

In 2002 he starred in a series of improvised adverts directed by Graham Linehan, for the now defunct ITV Sport Channel.[2]

He starred as a hapless undertaker in the Elbow promo for the song "Not a Job".[3]

Edge is the creator and co-writer of the series Starlings on Sky1 along with Matt King.[4]

He regularly joins Jason Manford on Manford's Sunday morning radio show on Absolute Radio.

Personal life

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Edge has moved to St Leonards on the East Sussex coast.[citation needed] Before that, he lived in Didsbury, a suburb of Manchester, since 1995 and revealed on Soccer AM that he is a Wolverhampton Wanderers season ticket holder who sits in the Stan Cullis Stand.[5] He was married in August 2014 friend and colleague Jason Manford as best man.[citation needed] He is godfather to Manford's twin daughters.[6]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2007 Magicians Tony White
2014 Paddington Natural History Museum Security Guard
2021 Cruella Steven the Jewellery Shop Assistant
2022 Floodlights Terry Woodward
2023 Bank of Dave Compere

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2000 Live at the Top of the Tower Brian
That Peter Kay Thing Alan 4 Episodes
2001–2002 Phoenix Nights Alan 12 Episodes
2003 Cold Feet Sean Episode: #5.2
2004 Family Business Trevor 1 Episode
No Angels Ray 3 Episodes
Peep Show Daryl 1 Episode
Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere Alan 2 Episodes
Christmas Lights Gibbo
2005 Twisted Tales Trax 1 Episode
2006 The Street Malcolm McKenzie 1 episode
2006–2008 Star Stories Various 5 episodes
2006 I'm with Stupid Sgt. Swithenback 6 episodes
2007 The Visit Clint 7 episodes
Dogface Various 4 episodes
2008 The Cup Terry McConnell All 6 episodes
2009 Comedy Showcase Phil Episode: "Guantanamo Phil"
2010 Secret Diary of a Call Girl Hamish Episode: #3.2
Scallywagga Mr. Styles All 6 episodes
The Great Outdoors Tom All 3 episodes
2011 Lunch Monkeys Pat Episode: "Who's the Daddy?"
2012 The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret Lionel T'Lion Episode: "Todd and his Valet Arrive in Leeds and What They Saw There"
The Royal Bodyguard Constable Truncheon Episode: "A Watery Grave"
2012–2013 Starlings Fergie All 16 episodes
2013 Love Matters Warren Episode: "Officially Special"
2013–2015 All at Sea Kevin Enright All 26 episodes
2015 Drunk History: UK Various 3 episodes
2016–2018 Benidorm Billy Dawson 25 episodes
2016 Do Not Disturb Neil TV film
Happy Valley Graham Tattersall 2 episodes
Plebs Justin Episode: "Justin Junior"
2018 The Split Matthew Royston Episode: #1.4
Urban Myths Barry Episode: "Public Enemy (feat. Kev Wells)"
The Reluctant Landlord David Foster 12 episodes
2019 Scarborough Bigsy All 6 episodes
2021 Death in Paradise Freddie Archer Episode: #10.4
Murder, They Hope Simon Episode: "Evil Under the Bun"
2021-Present The Madame Blanc Mysteries Dom Hayes Main character
2022 Shakespeare & Hathaway Rob Davenport Episode: "I No More Desire a Rose"
Maxine Brian Farmer All 3 episodes
2023 Ted Lasso Simon Episode: Mom City

Awards and nominations

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References

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  1. ^ "The "Alan Alan Alan" Marmot on the BBC! - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021.
  2. ^ Wilkes, Neil (20 February 2002). "Streaker stars in new ITV Sport Channel ad". Digital Spy.
  3. ^ "- YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Steve Coogan and Matt King unite for Starlings". Sky One.
  5. ^ "Skysports Video Portal". Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
  6. ^ @Jason_Manford (n.d.). "unknown" (Tweet) – via Twitter. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)[dead link]
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