Stephen Graham: So the father is known from “adolescence”

Even if the 15-year-old debutant Owen Cooper (15) often steals the show: Stephen Graham (51) receives more attention for “adolescence” as never before in his career. Because the Brit is one of the actors, whose face has already noticed every film and series fan, whose name probably only knows specialists. The success of “adolescence” – in Germany the series leads the Netflix charts – could change.

“Adolescence” is the baby from Stephen Graham. He not only plays the father of a 13-year-old suspect. The Englishman is also a creator and author of the hype series of the hour together with Jack Thorne (46). On the side of Brad Pitt (61), Graham is also managed as an executive producer.

Born in the city of Kirkby near Liverpool, Stephen Graham sought a career as an actor early on. To this end, the actor Andrew Schofield (66) encouraged him, who had seen the then eight -year -old at a school performance of the novel “Die Treasure Island”.

At the drama school in London, he met his wife Hannah Walters, with whom it is still married and has two children. After the drama school, Graham played smaller parts in theater, film and television from 1990. In 2000 he had his first major role in Guy Ritchies (56) gangsters’ “Snatch” with Brad Pitt. Ritchie committed Graham, although he had actually only accompanied one friend to the casting. Among other things, this was followed by a appearance in Martin Scorseses (82) “Gangs of New York”.

Stephen Graham had his breakthrough at home in 2006 with “This Is England”. In the film, he played right -wing Skinhead Combo, as well as in three series branches. When director Shane Meadows offered him the part, Graham was initially outraged, after all, the actor has Jamaican roots.

In his career, the character head specialized in petty criminals from the lower class or gangsters. The Englishman was not limited to Great Britain. In addition to Johnny Depp, he played the US bank robber Baby Face Nelson, the “Boardwalk Empire” series, in the film “Public Enemies”. In Martin Scorseses “The Irishman” he embodied the Mafioso Anthony Provenzano.

Stephen Graham is also at home in the very large blockbuster cinema. In parts of four and five of “Curse of the Caribbean” he played the Pirate Scrum. In “Venom: Let There be carnage” he gave the Patrick Mulligan, who has to get around with his symbiont toxin in the successor “Venom: The Last Dance”.

For the film “Yes, boss!” (2021) Stephen Graham received his first nomination for the most important British Film Award BAFTA. In it he played the stressed chef of a London luxury restaurant. “Yes, boss” is something like a preliminary study on “Adolescene”. Directed by the Philip Barantini series. And like every episode of the Netflix hit, the film is staged in a single setting without cut.