Steve Pemberton
Biography
Steve Pemberton is a BAFTA winning actor and writer born in Blackburn, UK. He graduated from Bretton Hall in Yorkshire with a BA (Hons) in Theatre Arts in 1989. After leaving college Steve spent time producing and starring in small-scale theatre productions in London and working part-time for Variety as assistant editor of the International Film Guide. In 1996 Steve and his college friends Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson went to Edinburgh with comedy show The League of Gentlemen, winning the coveted Perrier Comedy prize a year later. The group then went on to record a radio series and four TV series for the BBC as well as staging three live tours and making a film.
In 2009 Steve and Reece wrote and starred in the multi-award winning black comedy Psychoville which ran for two series and a Halloween special. The pair's acclaimed anthology show Inside No 9 began in 2014 and Steve was awarded with a BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2019. The show also won BAFTAs for Scripted Comedy and Comedy Writing. Steve lives in North London with his partner and three children.
Acting (38 movies)
Birthday Girl
2001
The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave!
2000
Riot at the Rite
2005
The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You
2006
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
The Hour
2020
I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007
Worzel Gummidge: Twitchers
2021
Worzel Gummidge: Calliope Jane
2021
Better Man
2024
The First Men in the Moon
2010
Under The Greenwood Tree
2005
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
Mr. Stink
2012
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
2002
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007
Psychoville Halloween Special
2010
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
2014
Alice in Russialand
1995
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Lassie
2005
Match Point
2005
Professor Branestawm Returns
2015
The Bad Mother's Handbook
2007
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
2004
The Old Curiosity Shop
2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane
2001
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
2008
National Theatre Live: She Stoops to Conquer
2012
The Interrogation of Tony Martin
2018
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
2018
Benidorm: 10 Years on Holiday
2018
Highgate House of Horror
1995
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024
The League of Gentlemen - Live Again!
2018
Friends Reunited
2005
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The League of Gentlemen - Yule Never Leave! | 2000 | Writer |
| The League of Gentlemen: Live at Drury Lane | 2001 | Writer |
| The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | 2005 | Writer |
| The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | 2005 | Executive Producer |
| Psychoville Halloween Special | 2010 | Writer |
| The League of Gentlemen - Live Again! | 2018 | Writer |
| The Little Things | 2024 | Executive Producer |