Steve nallon biography

Career.
Steve was a grammar school boy, one of the last from that bygone era.
Steve Nallon is a British actor, writer, voice artist and impressionist.

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Steve Nallon

British actor, writer and voice artist

Steve Nallon
Born	(1960-11-08) 8 November 1960 (age 64) Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Occupation(s)	Actor, writer, voice artist, impressionist

Steve Nallon (born 8 November 1960) is a British actor, writer, voice artist and impressionist. Nallon began his career as a stand-up performer on the northern club circuit in the 1970s.

He is known for his work as a voice artist on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image and for impersonating Margaret Thatcher on television throughout her time as Prime Minister of the UK (1979–1990). In his career Steve Nallon has performed a number of roles and characters as an actor and as a voice artist in theatre, film, television and radio.

Early life

Nallon grew up in a working-class family in Leeds in the 1960s. His father was a church caretaker who had a long history of mental health issues. His mother died suddenly in 1970 when Steve was nine years old. Because of his father's mental instability it became necessary for Nallon and his s

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Acting

Like many actors, Steve Nallon's early performances were in school plays and these included TOAD OF TOAD HALL, CHARLEY'S AUNT and ANDROCLES AND THE LION. After leaving school, Steve went on to study Drama and English at The University of Birmingham. In the 1980s, the Birmingham Drama Department was one of the most respected and prestigious practical courses in the country, covering various performance styles, ranging from Brecht and musical theatre to Shakespeare and Stanislavski. Steve's degree was put to good use for in subsequent years his professional work has ranged across all media, from film and television to radio and theatre.

As an actor, Steve has appeared in the sci-fi movie 51 DEGREES NORTH as astro-physicist Professor Richards, which was directed by the German born film director Grigorij Richters and had a new and original score played by Queen's Brian May. In the cult TV series JONATHAN CREEK (BBC), Steve featured as Rupert, Caroline Quentin's 'hot date'. And in the short film THE GANZFELD PROCEDURE, produced by the BBC and directed by Ke

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Biography

GROWING UP...

Steve is a child of the 60s. Not so much Swinging London, more Gloomy Leeds. It was a tough working class upbringing, a world of Woodbines, tin baths, catalogue money and fog. A never disappearing fog. And if cobbled streets and outside toilets weren't enough, at the age of three Steve developed that disease of the poor: consumption. Or TB as it's known today. If he had been born a decade earlier, Steve would probably have died but by then consumption was curable, even if it did mean a long period of isolation in hospital. During this time away from home Steve's only companion was his teddy bear, 'Little Ted', who, very happily, now sits by his bedside. But it was a difficult time and formative for it gave him, he has said, "a certain emotional independence which people often build for themselves when suddenly separated from those they love."

In the 60s, all of Steve's extended family lived close by in Harehills (or 'arr'ills, as said by the locals), a well known area of Leeds, and, typical of the time, they were all, day on day, a part