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}} Stephen John "Steve" Coogan (born 14 October 1965)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Steve Coogan )〕 is an English actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist, writer, and producer. He began his career in the 1980s, working as a voice artist on the satirical puppet show ''Spitting Image''. In the early 1990s, he began creating original comic characters, leading him to win the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 1999, he co-founded the production company Baby Cow Productions. While working with Armando Iannucci on ''The Day Today'' and ''On the Hour'', Coogan created his most developed and popular character, Alan Partridge, a socially awkward and politically incorrect regional media personality. He featured in several television series, which earned him three BAFTA nominations and two wins for Best Comedy Performance. A feature-length film, ''Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'', was released in 2013, and opened at number one at the British box office. Coogan grew in prominence within the film industry in 2002, after starring in ''The Parole Officer'' and ''24 Hour Party People''. He portrayed Phileas Fogg in the 2004 remake ''Around the World in 80 Days'' and co-starred in ''The Other Guys'', ''Tropic Thunder'', ''In the Loop'', ''Hamlet 2'', ''Our Idiot Brother'', ''Ruby Sparks'' and the ''Night at the Museum'' films, as well as collaborating with Rob Brydon in ''The Trip'' and ''A Cock and Bull Story''. He was also a voice actor in the animated comedy films ''Despicable Me 2'' and its prequel ''Minions'', and played Hades in ''Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief''. Coogan has also branched out into more dramatic roles, with ''What Maisie Knew'', and portrayed Paul Raymond in the biopic ''The Look of Love''. He co-wrote, produced, and starred in the film adaptation ''Philomena'', which earned him a Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination, and two Academy Award nominations (for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture). He has been cast in the lead role for the ABC television pilot ''Doubt'' and the Showtime drama ''Happyish''. On 22 November 2011, Coogan, along with Hugh Grant, gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry on phone hacking, favouring regulation of the press. ==Early life== Coogan was born in Middleton, Lancashire.〔 He is the fourth of seven children born to Kathleen (née Coonan), a housewife, and Anthony Coogan, an IBM engineer.〔http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2013/jul/28/profile-steve-coogan-alan-partridge〕〔http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/photo-galleries/2014/01/12/71st-golden-globes-red-carpet-arrivals/〕 He was raised Roman Catholic, in a working class family. His mother is Irish-born, from Mayo, and his father is of Irish descent.〔http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/11/21/philomena-film-is-not-an-attack-on-the-church-at-all-says-coogan/〕〔http://westcorktimes.com/home/archives/25711〕 He attended Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School. He has stated that he had a happy childhood, and in addition to having four brothers and two sisters, his parents fostered children on a short-term basis.〔 Coogan had a talent for impersonation, and wanted to go to drama school, despite being advised by a teacher that it could lead to a precarious profession. After five failed applications to various drama schools within London, he received a place at the theatre company New Music before gaining a place at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre,〔 where he met future collaborator John Thomson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Coogan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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