Ken Stott

Ken Stott is a Scottish film and television actor, particularly known in the United Kingdom for his many roles in the latter medium. Born Kenneth Campbell Stott in 1955 in Edinburgh, his father was a Scot and his mother was Sicilian.

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Scottish - Film - Television - United Kingdom - 1955 - Edinburgh - Sicilian

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For three years in his youth he was a member of a band called Keyhole, members of which later went on to form the Bay City Rollers. After attending Mountview Theatre School in London, Stott began working in the theatre for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the age of twenty, but for some years his earnings from acting were minimal and he was forced to support himself by also working as a double glazing salesman.

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Bay City Rollers - Mountview Theatre School - London - Theatre - Royal Shakespeare Company - Double glazing

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He appeared in small roles in BBC series such as The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (King Lear, 1982), Secret Army (1985) and Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986), before he eventually began to earn starring roles on television in the 1990s.

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BBC - The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare - King Lear - 1982 - Secret Army - 1985 - Dennis Potter - The Singing Detective - 1986 - 1990s

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His highest-profile television roles have included the leading character, DCI Red Matcalfe, in the BBC crime drama series Messiah (BBC One, 2001-date); as a drunk who fantasises about finding redemption by joining the Salvation Army in Promoted to Glory (ITV, 2003); as Adolf Hitler in Uncle Adolf (ITV, 2005) and as a fictional Chancellor of the Exchequer in Richard Curtis's The Girl in the Café (BBC One, 2005).

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Messiah - BBC One - 2001 - Salvation Army - Promoted to Glory - ITV - 2003 - Adolf Hitler - Uncle Adolf - Chancellor of the Exchequer - Richard Curtis - The Girl in the Café

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In film, he has tended to play mostly supporting parts, such as DI McCall in Shallow Grave (1994), Ted in Fever Pitch (1997) and Marius Honorius in King Arthur (2004). However, he has had occasional starring roles on the big screen, most notably opposite Billy Connolly in The Debt Collector (1999).

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Shallow Grave - 1994 - Fever Pitch - 1997 - King Arthur - 2004 - Billy Connolly - The Debt Collector - 1999

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Stott has also continued to act in the theatre, and in 1997 was nominated in the best actor category at the Laurence Olivier Awards for his role in the play Art in 1996.

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1997 - Laurence Olivier Awards - Art - 1996

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Aged thirty, Stott married a director's assistant named Elizabeth, and they had one child, Bill, in 1985. However, the marriage later broke up and Stott's current partner is the actress Di Sherlock.

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1985 - Di Sherlock

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