Steve Pemberton
Actor
Biography
Steve Pemberton is a BAFTA winning actor and writer born in Blackburn, UK. He graduated from Bretton Hall in Yorkshire with a BA (Hons) in Theatre Arts in 1989. After leaving college Steve spent time producing and starring in small-scale theatre productions in London and working part-time for Variety as assistant editor of the International Film Guide. In 1996 Steve and his college friends Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson went to Edinburgh with comedy show The League of Gentlemen, winning the coveted Perrier Comedy prize a year later. The group then went on to record a radio series and four TV series for the BBC as well as staging three live tours and making a film.
In 2009 Steve and Reece wrote and starred in the multi-award winning black comedy Psychoville which ran for two series and a Halloween special. The pair's acclaimed anthology show Inside No 9 began in 2014 and Steve was awarded with a BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2019. The show also won BAFTAs for Scripted Comedy and Comedy Writing. Steve lives in North London with his partner and three children.
As Director
Filmography
Match Point
as Detective Parry 2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Mr. Prosser 2005
Mr. Bean's Holiday
as Vicar 2007
Better Man
as Peter 2024
I Could Never Be Your Woman
as Censor 2007
Birthday Girl
as Duty sergeant 2001
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Harry Secombe 2004
Lassie
as Hynes 2005
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
as Various Characters 2005
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
as Chester 2004
Under The Greenwood Tree
as Mr. Shiner 2005
Mr. Stink
as Sir Derek Dimble 2012
The First Men in the Moon
as Sun 2010
The Bad Mother's Handbook
as Leo Fairbrother 2007
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
as various 2001
The Old Curiosity Shop
as Mr. Short 2007
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
as Viking (voice) 2002