Stephen Marcus

Other credits include My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Hear My Song (1991), The Beautician and the Beast (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Quills (2000), Kinky Boots (2005), The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005), Hogfather (2006), Kingdom (2007), Lark Rise to Candleford (2008), Ninja Assassin (2009), Interview with a Hitman (2012), Starhunter ReduX (2017), Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story (2017), and The Big Ugly (2020).

[1] A year of acting in commercials introduced Marcus to director Peter Chelsom, who cast him as Gordon in Hear My Song (1991),[3] opposite Ned Beatty.

[2] In 1996, Marcus's agent arranged a meeting for a small low-budget movie with a then-unknown director named Guy Ritchie, who offered Marcus the role of 'Nick the Greek', alongside Nick Moran, Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham and Matthew Vaughn, in British gangster comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

[1] In April 2012, he completed filming for independent British gangster thriller Two Days in the Smoke, in which he played the hitman Ben, alongside Snatch star Alan Ford and Matt Di Angelo from BBC Hustle.

[4] Smoke director Ben Pickering cast him as the vengeful Max in his second feature, the British psychological thriller Welcome to Curiosity (2018).