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Stephen Merchant
Highest Rated: 93% Fighting With My Family (2019)
Lowest Rated: 5% Movie 43 (2013)
Birthday: Nov 24, 1974
Birthplace: Bristol, England, UK
Writer-director-producer-actor Stephen Merchant rose to comedy stardom in collaboration with comedy icon Ricky Gervais on an impressive succession of hugely successful television projects in the U.K. and United States. Having received his start in stand-up comedy, he and Gervais became partners in crime as the co-hosts of a short-lived weekly radio show prior to sowing the seeds for what would evolve into the hugely influential workplace sitcom "The Office" (BBC2, 2001-03), which he co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed. Success from the series led to more work with Gervais on another popular radio show, acting and writing jobs on other BBC programs, and the smash-hit adaptation of "The Office" (NBC, 2005-13) on American TV. In addition to his usual duties, Merchant also performed in his and Gervais' next series, "Extras" (HBO, BBC2, 2005-07). His performance as the well-meaning, but utterly incompetent talent agent Darren Lamb earned Merchant a British Comedy Award for Best Actor. Other collaborations with Gervais included the feature dramedy "Cemetery Junction" (2010); the travel series starring their clueless radio producer Karl Pilkington, "An Idiot Abroad" (Sky1, 2010-13); and the series "Life's Too Short" (HBO, 2011- ), while his acclaimed stand-up comedy tour "Hello, Ladies" proved he had plenty to offer all on his own. Astonishingly prolific, he had amassed a career's worth of credits in a scant 10 years, and along with Gervais, earned the respect and adoration of fans, both famous and not, for their consistently hilarious work together as a comedic team.
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kick Out the Jams: The Story of XFM | Self | - | 2022 |
84% |
|
A Boy Called Christmas | Miika (Voice) | - | 2021 |
41% |
|
Locked Down | Michael Morgan (Character) | - | 2021 |
80% |
|
Jojo Rabbit | Deertz (Character) | $33.4M | 2019 |
93% |
|
Fighting With My Family |
Hugh (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$23.0M | 2019 |
38% |
|
The Girl in the Spider's Web | Frans Balder (Character) | $14.8M | 2018 |
27% |
|
Sherlock Gnomes | Paris (Voice) | $43.1M | 2018 |
93% |
|
Logan | Caliban (Character) | $226.3M | 2017 |
26% |
|
Table 19 | Walter Thimble (Character) | $3.6M | 2017 |
No Score Yet |
|
Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie | Barron Hilton (Character) | - | 2016 |
71% |
|
Hello Ladies: The Movie |
Stuart Pritchard (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
- | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Noah's Ark | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
52% |
|
I Give It a Year | Danny (Character) | $32.5K | 2013 |
5% |
|
Movie 43 | Donald (Character) | $8.8M | 2013 |
33% |
|
Hall Pass | Gary (Character) | $45.0M | 2011 |
55% |
|
Gnomeo & Juliet | Paris (Voice) | - | 2011 |
58% |
|
Cemetery Junction |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2010 |
17% |
|
Tooth Fairy | Tracy (Character) | $60.0M | 2010 |
TV
Credit | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
81% | 89% | The Office |
Writer, Executive Producer |
2005-2013 2023-2024 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2024 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2022 2024 |
86% | 81% | The Outlaws |
Greg (Character), Creator, Executive Producer, Director, Writer |
2021-2022 2024 |
No Score Yet | 6% | The View | Guest | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 19% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2019 2022 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2014 2019 2022 |
82% | 67% | Four Lives | Stephen Port (Character) | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2010 2013 2015 2018-2021 |
No Score Yet | 93% | Dream Corp LLC |
T.E.R.R.Y. (Character), Executive Producer |
2016 2018 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Would I Lie to You? |
Guest, Contestant |
2020 |
85% | 90% | Modern Family | Higgins (Guest Star) | 2014 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Travel Man: 48 Hours in... | Self | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lip Sync Battle |
Contestant, Executive Producer |
2015-2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2019 |
97% | 89% | The Good Place | Neil (Guest Star) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 91% | American Dad! | Scientist (Guest Voice) | 2016 |
85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Conrad (Guest Voice) | 2016 |
81% | 84% | The Big Bang Theory | Dave Gibbs (Guest Star) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 92% | Comedy Bang! Bang! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Drunk History | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013-2015 |
No Score Yet | 85% | Robot Chicken | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2011 2013-2014 |
60% | No Score Yet | Short Poppies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
52% | 84% | Hello Ladies |
Stuart (Character), Creator, Executive Producer |
2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan |
Unknown (Character), Guest |
2011-2013 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2008 2012-2013 |
No Score Yet | 93% | The Ricky Gervais Show |
Unknown (Voice), Creator, Self, Executive Producer |
2010-2012 |
77% | No Score Yet | An Idiot Abroad |
Self, Executive Producer, Host |
2010-2012 |
53% | 78% | Life's Too Short |
Self, Writer |
2011 |
88% | 93% | Extras |
Unknown (Character), Executive Producer, Director, Writer |
2005-2007 |
97% | 88% | The Office |
Director, Writer |
2001-2003 |