Adrian Bouchet, sometimes credited as Mark Stevens, (b. in Rhodesia, 1974)[1] is an English actor and presenter, most widely known for playing the role of Steapa in the BBC and Netflix TV series, The Last Kingdom (2017–2020).

[2] Bouchet was born in Rhodesia and left during the Rhodesian Bush War to settle in the United Kingdom.

In 2014, he played an unnamed knight in the film Morning Star who wants to give the bones of his friend who died in battle to his family.

[6] From 2017 to 2020, Bouchet played Steapa, King Alfred's Captain of the Guard, in 21 episodes of The Last Kingdom.

[8] In 2021, he also played the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, known as Frederick Barbarossa, in seven episodes of the medieval Spanish TV series Glow and Darkness with Jayne Seymour and Joan Collins.