Eddie Marsan facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Eddie Marsan
Marsan at The World's End Premiere, Leicester Square in 2013
Born	Edward Maurice Charles Marsan (1968-06-09) 9 June 1968 (age 56) Stepney, London, England
Alma mater	Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1990–present
Spouse(s)	Janine Schneider ​ ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	4

Edward Maurice Charles Marsan (born 9 June 1968) is an English actor. He won the London Film Critics Circle Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Happy-Go-Lucky (2008).

He has featured in films such as Gangster No. 1 (2000), V for Vendetta (2006), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Sixty Six (2006), Hancock (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009), War Horse (2011), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), The Best of Men (2012), The World's End (2013), Still Life (2013), and The Exception (2016). His major TV credits include his role as Terry in Showtime's Ray Donovan (2013–2020), as Mr Norrell in the BBC drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015) and Ultimate Force (2002).

Early life and education

Marsan was born on 9 June 1968 in the Stepney district of London, to a working-class family; his father was a lorry driver and his mother was a school dinner lady and teacher's assistant. He was brought up in Bethnal Green and attended Raine's Foundation School. He left school at 16 and initially served an apprenticeship as a printer before beginning his career in theatre.

He trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 1991, and went on to study under Sam Kogan at the Kogan Academy of Dramatic Arts, now known as The School of the Science of Acting, of which Marsan is now a patron.

Career

Marsan's first television appearance was in 1992, as a "yob" in the London Weekend Television series The Piglet Files. One of his more significant early television appearances was in the popular mid-1990s BBC sitcom Game On as an escaped convict who was an old flame of Mandy's. Marsan went on to have roles in Casualty, The Bill, Grass, Kavanagh QC, Grange Hill, Silent Witness, Ultimate Force, Southcliffe, and more. He also voiced the Manticore in the Merlin episode "Love in the Time of Dragons".

In 2012, He portrayed Terry Donovan, brother to the lead character in 7 series and 82 episodes of Showtime's drama series Ray Donovan. The same year he played Ludwig Guttmann in the television film The Best of Men. In May 2015, Marsan appeared as the practical magician Gilbert Norrell in the BBC period drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Marsan has appeared in numerous and varied film roles. His roles include the main villain in the 2008 superhero film Hancock alongside Will Smith and as Inspector Lestrade in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. His other films include Sixty Six, Gangs of New York, 21 Grams, The Illusionist, V for Vendetta, Gangster No. 1, Miami Vice, Mission: Impossible III, I Want Candy, Vera Drake, Happy-Go-Lucky, Filth, Tyrannosaur and Heartless.

In 2021, Marsan appeared as anti-Fascist activist Soly Malinovsky in the television adaptation of the novel Ridley Road. In 2022, Marsan played the real-life role of John Darwin, in The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe.

In January 2023, it was announced that Marsan was added to the cast of the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black and would be playing Winehouse's father Mitch Winehouse.

Eddie Marsan at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.

Personal life

Marsan married make-up artist Janine Schneider in 2002. They have four children. Marsan is a humanist and was appointed a patron of Humanists UK in 2015.

Filmography

Key

Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	The Man Who Knew Too Little	Mugger No. 1
1999	This Year's Love	Eddie
	Janice Beard	Mr Tense
2000	Gangster No. 1	Eddie Miller
2001	The Emperor's New Clothes	Louis Marchand
	The Bunker	Pfc Kreuzmann
2002	Gangs of New York	Killoran
2003	AfterLife	Jez Walters
	21 Grams	Reverend John
2004	The Rocket Post	Heinz Dombrowsky
	Vera Drake	Reg
2005	The Secret Life of Words	Victor
	Beowulf & Grendel	Father Brendan
	The New World	Eddie
	The Headsman	Fabio
2006	V for Vendetta	Brian Etheridge
	Mission: Impossible III	Brownway
	Miami Vice	Nicholas
	Sixty Six	Manny Reuben
	The Illusionist	Josef Fischer
	Pierrepoint	James "Tish" Corbitt
2007	I Want Candy	Doug Perry
	Grow Your Own	Little John
2008	Happy-Go-Lucky	Scott
	Hancock	Kenneth "Red" Parker, Jr.
	Me and Orson Welles	John Houseman
	Faintheart	Richard
2009	Red Riding	Jack Whitehead
	Sherlock Holmes	Inspector Lestrade
	The Disappearance of Alice Creed	Vic
	Heartless	Weapons Man
2010	London Boulevard	DI Bailey
2011	Junkhearts	Frank
	Tyrannosaur	James
	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	Inspector Lestrade
	War Horse	Sgt Fry
2012	Snow White and the Huntsman	Duir
	I, Anna	DI Kevin Franks
2013	Jack the Giant Slayer	Crawe
	The World's End	Peter Page
	Filth	Bladesey
	Still Life	John May
2014	God's Pocket	Smilin' Jack Moran
	X+Y	Richard
2015	Concussion	Steven DeKosky
2016	A Kind of Murder	Marty Kimmel
	The Limehouse Golem	Uncle
	Their Finest	Sammy Smith
	The Exception	Heinrich Himmler
2017	Atomic Blonde	Spyglass
	Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House	Agency Man
2018	Entebbe	Shimon Peres
	Deadpool 2	The Headmaster
	White Boy Rick	Art Derrick
	Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle	Vihaan	Voice and motion capture role
	Vice	Paul Wolfowitz
2019	Hostage Radio	Jarvis Dolan
	The Professor and the Madman	Muncie
	Hobbs & Shaw	Professor Andreiko
	Abigail	Jonathan Foster
	Pets United	The Cyborg / The Mayor / Frank Stone	Voice role
	The Gentlemen	Big Dave
2021	Wrath of Man	Terry
	The Virtuoso	The Loner
	Flag Day	Mr. Emmanuelle
	Charlotte	Albert Salomon	Voice role
2022	The Contractor	Virgil
	Choose or Die	Hal
	Vesper	Jonas
2023	Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre	Knighton
	Fair Play	Campbell
	Firebrand	Edward Seymour
	Emperor	Martin Luther	Post-production
2024	Back to Black	Mitch Winehouse	Post-production
TBA	Midas Man	Harry Epstein	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992–1996	The Bill	Martin Price/Roy Kilby/Dean Stacey/Gary Vaughan	4 episodes
1992	The Piglet Files	Yob	1 Episode
1996	Casualty	Rick Grant	Episode: "Chain Reactions"
1996	EastEnders	Roddy	1 episode
1996	Game On	Stoat	1 episode
1996–1998	Grange Hill	Andy Sutcliffe/Eddie Sutcliffe	3 episodes
1997	Get Well Soon	Brian Clapton	Main cast, 6 episodes
1997	Kavanagh QC	Ian Vincent	Episode: "The Ties That Bind"
1999	The Vice	Rhys	2 episodes
2000	The Mrs Bradley Mysteries	Ronald Quincy	Episode: "The Worsted Viper"
2001	The Monkey King	Pigsy	Miniseries, 2 episodes
2002	Ultimate Force	Badger	1 episode
2002	Judge John Deed	Ed Hay	Episode: "Nobody's Fool"
2003	Grass	Sunshine	3 episodes
2003	Charles II: The Power and the Passion	Titus Oates	Episode #1.4
2004	Coming Up	Martin	Episode: "The Baader Meinhoff Gang Show"
2004	Quite Ugly One Morning	Stephen Lime	Television film
2004	Silent Witness	Derek Portnoy	2 episodes
2006	Friends and Crocodiles	Martin Butterworth	Television film
2008	God on Trial	Lieble	Television film
2008	Little Dorrit	Pancks	Miniseries, 12 episodes
2008	The 39 Steps	Scudder	Television film
2009	Criminal Justice	Saul	Main cast, 5 episodes
2009–2010	Law & Order: UK	Jason Peters	2 episodes
2010	Merlin	The Manticore (voice)	Episode: "Love in the Time of Dragons"
2010	The Sarah Jane Adventures	Mr White	2 episodes
2011	Moby Dick	Stubb	Miniseries, 2 episodes
2012	Playhouse Presents	The Intruder	Episode: "Walking the Dogs"
2012	The Best of Men	Ludwig Guttmann	Television film
2013–2020	Ray Donovan	Terry Donovan	Main cast, 80 episodes
2013	Southcliffe	Andrew Salter	4 episodes
2015	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Gilbert Norrell	Miniseries, 7 episodes
2015	River	Thomas Neill Cream	Miniseries, 6 episodes
2015	Hunted	Narrator (voice)	Reality television series
2016	Galavant	Death	Episode: "Love and Death"
2017	Urban Myths	Bob Dylan	Episode: "Bob Dylan: Knockin' on Dave's Door"
2018	Indian Summer School	Narrator (voice)	Reality television series, 3 episodes
2021	The Pact	Arwel Evans	Miniseries, 4 episodes
2021	Deceit	Paul Britton	Miniseries, 4 episodes
2021	Ridley Road	Soly Malinovsky	4 episodes
2022	Ray Donovan: The Movie	Terry Donovan	Television film
2022	The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe	John Darwin	Miniseries, 4 episodes
2023	The Power	Bernie Monke	Main role
2023	The Winter King	Uther Pendragon	Season 1, episodes 1 and 2
TBA	Franklin	John Adams	Upcoming miniseries

Video games

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Eddie Marsan para niños