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Stephen Merchant
Stephen Merchant (Stephen Merchant), born on November 24, 1974 in Bristol, England, is a British actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
In 1998, he served as the screenwriter for the comedy film "The 11 O'Clock Show". In 2001, he and Ricky Dene Gervais co-directed the TV series "The Office Laughing Cloud Season One", which won the 55th British Academy of Film and Television Arts TV Award-Best Sitcom Award
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. In 2002, the TV series " Office Laughing Clouds Season 2 " co-directed with Ricky Dene Gervais was broadcast. With this series, he was shortlisted for the 57th Emmy Awards Other and Technology Awards-Miniseries/TV Movie/Drama Special Program Best Best Screenplay Award
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. In 2005, with Bryan Gordon , Ken Kwapis, etc., co-directed the TV series "The First Season of the Office ", which won the 58th Emmy Awards for Comedy Drama-Best Comedy Drama Award
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In 2010, he co-directed the feature film " Cemetery Junction " with Ricky Dene Gervais
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. In 2013
, he wrote and directed and acted in the TV series " Hello Ladies "
[5] , with which he was shortlisted for the 67th Emmy Awards-Miniseries/TV Movie/Drama Special Program Best Screenplay Award
[6]
. In 2015, he served as the producer of the TV series " Lip Sync Battle ". In 2017, the sci-fi action movie " Logan " starred by him was released
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. In 2018, starred in the thriller crime movie " The Girl in the Spider's Web "
[8]
. In 2019, he wrote and directed the sports biographical film " Fighting with My Family "
[9]
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Performing Experience
In 1998, he served as the screenwriter for the comedy film "The 11 O'Clock Show". In 2001, he and Ricky Dene Gervais co-directed the TV series "The First Season of Office Laughing Clouds", which won the 55th British Academy of Film and Television Arts TV Award-Best Sitcom Award
.
In 2002, the TV series " Office Laughing Clouds Season 2 " co-directed with Ricky Dene Gervais was broadcast. With this series, he was shortlisted for the 57th Emmy Awards Other and Technology Awards-Miniseries/TV Movie/Drama Special Program Best Best Screenplay Award
.
In 2005, with Bryan Gordon , Ken Kwapis, etc., co-directed the TV series "The First Season of the Office ", and served as the screenwriter of the film. The drama won the 58th Emmy Award for Comedy Drama-Best Drama Drama in the
same year; , Self-written, directed and acted in the TV series "Extras Season 1", for which he won the 58th Emmy Awards for Comedy Drama-Best Screenplay in Comedy Drama
.
In 2007, he co-starred in the crime movie " Blue Fury " with Dr. Russel Fell and others . In 2009, he participated in the fantasy romance movie " The Invention of Lying " with Ricky Dene Gervais, Jennifer Garner and others . In 2010, he co-directed the feature film Cemetery Junction with Ricky Dene Gervais , which tells the story of a group of young people working in a bank in Reading, England in the 1970s
; in the same year, he served as the first animation version of the animated film "Podcast Ricky" The screenwriter of "Season"; later, he participated in the thriller comedy film " Burke and Hare " directed by John Landis .
In 2011, the animation "Podcast Ricky Animated Season 2" premiered as a screenwriter; in the same year, he co-directed the TV series "Life is Short" with Ricky Dene Gervais
. In 2012, he served as the screenwriter of the TV series "The Ninth Season of the Office"; in the same year, he served as the screenwriter of the documentary "The Third Season of Stupid Abroad".
In 2013
, he wrote , directed and acted in the TV series " Hello Ladies ", which tells the story of a stupid British looking for the woman of his dreams in Los Angeles . With this series, he was nominated for the 67th Emmy Awards-Miniseries/TV Award for Best Screenplay in a Special Program in a Movie/Drama category
; in the same year, the romantic comedy film " I give it a year " starred by him was released.
In 2014, he directed and acted in the comedy movie "Hello Ladies". In 2015, he served as the producer of the TV series "Lip Sync Battle". In 2017, he participated in the sci-fi action film " Blade Runner 2049 " with Opie and others ; in the same year, participated in the comedy film "Wedding Table No. 19" directed by Jeffrey Britz; March 3, with Hugh Jackman , Old Baldy Beeef Stew and other co-starred in the sci-fi action film " Logan ", in which he played the role of Kaliban, a member of Morlock , the evolving race wanderer team
.
In 2018, he co-starred in the thriller crime movie " The Girl in the Spider's Web " with Claire Foy and others , in which he played Frans Bald, a former employee of the US government
. In 2019, starred in the war comedy film " Jojo Rabbit " directed by Taika Cohen ; in the same year, he wrote and directed the sports biographical film " Fighting with My Family " co-starring Florence Pugh and Dwayne Douglas Johnson , which was adapted from British professional wrestling The true story of the athlete Page tells that with the support of his family, the wrestler Page became the youngest WWE champion
.
On January 14, 2021, the love crime comedy "The Blockade " starred in was launched on the HBO Max platform
.
Character Evaluation
Stephen Merchant is tall and thin, humble, and good at creating awkward interactions between idiots and self-deceiving people, but he did not swell himself up to capture all soap opera fans. His first work as a film director alone was a family-centric wrestling comedy "Fighting with My Family". If a director can make a semi-serious film about professional wrestling, Stephen Merchant's position should be with Todd Solondz almost
. ( ).
In the movie "Fighting with My Family", Stephen Merchant successfully combined his own embarrassing humor with the thoughts and feelings that everyone would like to see like some of his other works. Although the wrestling scenes in the movie are also very beautiful, the most exciting scenes are the interaction of the Beavis family, and Mo Chante carefully carves those scenes. In one scene, his future father-in-law, played by Zac, met the weird in-laws for the first time. As a funny supporting role, he also played a good sense of humor .
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