Stephen Tompkinson Biography

Fast Facts

• Considered entering the priesthood before his grandfather encouraged him to become an actor; later played a frustrated priest in Ballykissangel
• Was classmates with James Nesbitt and Rufus Sewell at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London
• Won the Best TV Comedy Actor award at the 1994 British Comedy Awards for Drop the Dead Donkey
• In 2003, played Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace at The Strand Theatre in London alongside Michael Richards
• In 2010, played Erik in the two-part BBC Radio 4 drama Say What You Want to Hear
• Played the lead role of King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot at the Playhouse Theatre in 2012