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Edward Maurice C. "Eddie" Marsan^[1] (born 1968) is an English actor.

Life and career

Marsan was born in Stepney, London to a working class family; his father was a lorry driver and his mother a school dinner lady and teacher's assistant.^[2][3] He was brought up in Bethnal Green and initially served an apprenticeship as a printer, before beginning his career in theatre, and moving to a television and film career.^[3] He graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 1991.

His first television appearance was in 1992, as a "yob", in the London Weekend Television series The Piglet Files. One of his more significant earliest television appearances was in the popular mid-1990s BBC sitcom Game On as a bungling bank robber. Marsan went on to have roles in Casualty, The Bill, Kavanagh QC, Grange Hill, Silent Witness, Ultimate Force, and more.

Marsan has since branched out into numerous and varied film roles including work in the United States, and is achieving much success in Hollywood, most recently as the main villain in the 2008 superhero film Hancock alongside Will Smith. He has a significant role in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, and his other movies include 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 and Heartless^[4].

Filmography

• Get Well Soon (1997)
• The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) as Mugger #1
• This Year's Love (1999) as Eddie
• Gangster No. 1 (2000) as Eddie Miller
• The Emperor's New Clothes (2001) as Louis Marchand
• The Bunker (2001) as Pfc. Kreuzmann
• The Monkey King (TV miniseries) as Pigsy
• Gangs of New York (2002) as Killoran
• AfterLife (2003) as Jez Walters
• 21 Grams (2003) as Reverend John
• Charles II: The Power and The Passion (2003) as Titus Oates
• The Rocket Post (2004) as Heinz Dombrowsky
• Vera Drake (2004) as Reg
• The Headsman (2005) as Fabio
• The Secret Life of Words (2005) as Victor
• Beowulf & Grendel (2005) as Father Brendan
• The New World (2005) as Eddie
• Mission: Impossible III (2006) as Brownway
• Miami Vice (2006) as Nicholas
• Sixty Six (2006) as Manny Reuben
• The Illusionist (2006) as Josef Fischer
• V for Vendetta (2006) as Brian Etheridge
• Pierrepoint (2006) as James "Tish" Corbitt
• I Want Candy (2007) as Doug Perry
• Grow Your Own (2007) as Little John
• Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) as Scott
• Hancock (2008) as Red Parker
• God on Trial (2008) as Lieble
• Me and Orson Welles (2008) as John Houseman
• Little Dorrit (2008) as Pancks
• The 39 Steps (2008) as Scudder
• Red Riding (2009)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009) as Inspector Lestrade
• The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009) as Vic
• Criminal Justice (2009) as Saul

References

External links

• Eddie Marsan at the Internet Movie Database
• Eddie Marsan at Allmovie
• Profile of Eddie Marsan
• Driver's Eddie