Steve Steen

Steve Steen (born 26 December 1954) is a British television, radio and theatre actor and comedian, known for improvisational comedy works.

Early career Whilst a pupil at Clapham College in London, Steen became friends with Jim Sweeney, and they joined Oval House theatre club in 1972, performing improvised comedy. They wrote and performed in a show that parodied much of the other shows being held in London that year. Then they formed their own theatre company and wrote and toured its productions around the United Kingdom through the 1970s.

Television In the 1980s Steen and Sweeney moved into television production, appearing together for the first time on TV in the ITV children's show CBTV in 1981, followed by one of Channel 4's first comedies, Little Armadillos. In 1985 Steen appeared in the Ben Elton comedy Happy Families.

Rory Bremner recruited them as resident support performers on his first sketch show for the BBC. In 1987 they starred as the Romantic poets Byron and Coleridge (Steen playing Byron) in an episode, entitled "Ink and Incapability", of the comedy series Blackadder the Third. he married in 2016.