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Stephen Mangan is an English Stage , Television and Film Actor , best known for his role in the television series Green Wing , the second series of which is currently airing on Channel 4 . BIOGRAPHY After gaining a Masters of Arts in Law at Cambridge University , where his friends included Rachel Weisz and Sue Perkins , Mangan took a year out to nurse his mother, Mary, who was dying of cancer and weeks after her death auditioned for the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art . 'To get into somewhere like that was a seal of approval. It was no longer that you made someone laugh in a school play or you were funny to your mates.' He graduated from RADA In July 1994 and swore off television for years, preferring to take what he saw as more limitless opportunities on the stage. 'You're not being typecast or held to ransom by how you look.' His breakthrough television performance was Adrian Mole in the six-part BBC TV show series ''Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years'' in 2001 but he's probably best known as one of the stars of the Channel 4 comedy '' Green Wing '', playing Doctor Guy Secretan. He gave an impressive performance as an egotistical, highly successful British TV comic with his eye on Hollywood in Annie Griffin's critically admired film ''Festival'' in 2005 and is soon to appear in the British film, ''Confetti'' which is released on 5 May 2006. Empire magazine's review of the film says "Mangan shines as the most unpleasant contender and delivers the best petulant outbursts: “Please get it into your thick head how much I respect you!”" FILMOGRAPHY
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"When the first series went out, it was very much an ensemble show. This time, everyone wants to interview Greig and Rhind-Tutt. But on set it is Stephen Mangan, as the comic-grotesque Dr Guy Secretan, who emerges as the true star. With film roles in Festival and the forthcoming Confetti, it can't be long before he's up there with Coogan and Gervais. The rest of the cast are all straight actors, but Mangan is a brilliant improv performer who pushes the script to the very limit with his constant ad-libbing. Guy may think he's a ladies man, but he's a total sexual naïf. We watch them film one toe-curling kitchen scene that culminates in Mangan ad-libbing: "Where is my blancmange in the shape of a tit?" He turns to Pile: "Sorry, was that too much?" Later she tells me: "Stephen is a magician of words. I'd happily have every bit of invention that he comes up with. He can go one step too far, but I probably encourage that."
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