Stephen Garlick

Stephen Garlick (born 7 July 1959) is a retired British actor best known as the voice of Jen in Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal.

His career has centered on film, television and radio. At the age of five he attended the famous Corona Academy stage school. As most children of his age he started doing a few television commercials. In 1965 he featured in a documentary called A Day of Peace, directed by noted film director Peter Collinson. Garlick had a non-speaking part as a small boy with a potty stuck on his head in Carry On Doctor (1967). He appeared in two films in the 1960s made by the Children's Film Foundation. He played the part of Dan in The Boy from Space, one of the Look and Read serials for BBC Schools. This was released on DVD by the British Film Institute.

Career As a child, Garlick appeared in the 1969 film Crossplot, starring Roger Moore. In 1973, Garlick played the role of Ned Lewis in the second series of The Adventures of Black Beauty. The series was released by Network DVD on a Bluray fiftieth anniversary release. He appeared on the special features disc alongside Judi Bowker with their memories of working on the programme. He also made another film for the Children's Film Foundation in 1975 called The Hostages. A year later he played an alien called Kwaan in the Thames Television sci-fi series The Tomorrow People. He played the part of Tim Moffat in the controversial six-part serial, Two People, for London Weekend Television.

Garlick played Ibbotson in the Doctor Who story Mawdryn Undead. Other TV appearances included Lovejoy and The Bill. He has provided many voices for radio and TV commercials and also films. His best-known voice role is the main character Jen in Jim Henson's 1982 American–British fantasy film The Dark Crystal. He has twice been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company appearing in many radio plays. He played Detective Constable Tully in the radio crime series for the BBC called, Detective. He was a DJ for a short time, appearing as Steve Garlick on the recreation of the sixties offshore radio station, Radio London (Big L) between 2005 and 2008.

Garlick has started appearing at conventions, most notably a celebration of The Dark Crystal at Elstree Studios in 2020, where the film was made, and in Los Angeles to commemorate the film's fortieth anniversary in 2022. He now lives a house in Bedfordshire with his wife and daughter.

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