Stephen John "Steve" Coogan (born October 14, 1965) is an English comedian, actor, writer and producer. His best known character in the United Kingdom is Alan Partridge, a socially awkward and politically incorrect regional media personality, who featured in several television series, such as The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge and I'm Alan Partridge. Outside the UK, Coogan is better known for his film roles.

Filmography

• Legends — Don
• Brian and Maggie — Brian Walden, Executive Producer
• Funboys — Phillip Cantwell
• How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) — Alan Partridge, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• 2025National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove — Dr Strangelove/Captain Mandrake/President Muffley/Major TJ Kong
• 2025Saipan — Mick McCarthy
• 2025The Penguin Lessons — Tom Michell, Executive Producer
• 2024Despicable Me 4 — Silas (voice)
• 2024From Roger Moore with Love — Roger Moore (voice)
• 2024Joker: Folie à Deux — Paddy Meyers
• Mitt liv som Roger Moore — Roger Moore (voice)
• 2023Alan Partridge Live: Stratagem — Alan Partridge / Martin Brennan, Writer
• The Reckoning — Jimmy Savile
• Chivalry — Cameron, Writer
• 2022Minions: The Rise of Gru — Silas Ramsbottom (voice)
• 2022The Lost King — John Langley, Producer, Writer
• The Sandman — Barnabas (voice)
• The Witchfinder — Script Consultant
• Stephen — DCI Clive Driscoll
• 2020The Big Night In — Steve Coogan
• 2020The Trip to Greece — Steve
• 2019Greed — Sir Richard McCreadie
• 2019My Zoe — Executive Producer
• 2019The Professor and the Madman — Frederick James Furnivall
• This Time with Alan Partridge — Alan Partridge
• What We Do in the Shadows — Lord Roderick Cravensworth
• High & Dry — Executive Producer
• 2018Holmes & Watson — Gustav Klinger (uncredited)
• 2018Hot Air — Lionel, Executive Producer
• 2018Ideal Home — Erasmus
• 2018Irreplaceable You — Mitch
• 2018Stan & Ollie — Stanley "Stan" Laurel
• 2017Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? — Himself, Executive Producer
• 2017Despicable Me 3 — Fritz / Silas Ramsbottom (voice)
• 2017Shepherds and Butchers — John Weber
• 2017The Dinner — Paul Lohman
• 2017The Trip to Spain — Steve
• 2016Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle — Alan Partridge, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2016Dancer — Executive Producer
• 2016Mindhorn — Peter Easterman, Executive Producer
• 2016Rules Don't Apply — Colonel Nigel Briggs
• 2016The Secret Life of Pets — Ozone / Reginald (voice)
• Zapped — Malador, Feffenhoffer, Executive Producer
• HAPPYish — Thom Payne
• 2015Minions — Professor Flux / Tower Guard (voice)
• 2014Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb — Octavius
• 2014Northern Soul — Mr. Banks
• 2014One Rogue Reporter
• 2014The Trip to Italy — Steve
• 2013Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa — Alan Partridge, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2013Despicable Me 2 — Silas (voice)
• 2013Doubt — Vincent Calzonetti
• 2013Philomena — Martin Sixsmith, Producer, Screenplay
• 2013Steve Coogan: Stand Up Down Under
• 2013The Look of Love — Paul Raymond
• 2013What Maisie Knew — Beale
• 2012Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce — Alan Partridge, Writer
• 2012Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life — Alan Partridge, Writer, Executive Producer
• Moone Boy
• 2012Ruby Sparks — Langdon Tharp
• 2012Uncle Wormsley's Christmas — Narrator
• Comedy Blaps
• 2011Darkwood Manor — Steve Coogan
• 2011Our Idiot Brother — Dylan Byng
• 2011The Trip — Steve Coogan
• Chekhov Comedy Shorts
• 2010Marmaduke — Raisin (voice)
• 2010Marvin — Narrator
• Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge — Alan Partridge, Creator
• Neighbors from Hell — Satan
• 2010Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief — Hades
• 2010The Other Guys — David Ershon
• The Trip — Steve
• Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
• 2009In the Loop — Paul Michaelson
• 2009Monkey Mischief — Octavius
• 2009Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian — Octavius
• 2009Steve Coogan - Live As Alan Partridge And Other Less Successful Characters — Various, Writer
• 2009Steve Coogan: The Inside Story — Self / Alan Partridge / Various, Writer
• 2009What Goes Up — Campbell Babbitt
• 2008Finding Amanda — Michael Henry
• 2008Graham Linehan: Funny Business
• 2008Hamlet 2 — Dana Marschz
• Sunshine — Bing Crosby
• 2008Tales of the Riverbank — Roderick (voice)
• 2008Tropic Thunder — Damien Cockburn
• 2008Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness — Damien Cockburn, Writer, Director, Creator
• British Film Forever
• 2007For the Love of God — Graham
• 2007Hot Fuzz — Metropolitan Police Inspector (uncredited)
• 1 Leicester Square
• 2006Marie Antoinette — Ambassador Mercy
• 2006Night at the Museum — Octavius
• Saxondale — Tommy Saxondale, Producer, Writer, Creator
• 2006Snow Cake — Executive Producer
• 2006The Alibi — Ray Elliot
• 2005A Cock and Bull Story — Tristram Shandy / Walter Shandy / Steve Coogan
• 2005Alan Partridge Presents: The Cream of British Comedy — Alan Partridge
• 2005Happy Endings — Charley
• Monkey Trousers
• Sensitive Skin — Executive Producer
• 2004AD/BC: A Rock Opera — Executive Producer
• 2004Around the World in 80 Days — Phileas Fogg
• 2004Coffee and Cigarettes — Steve (segment "Cousins?")
• 2004Ella Enchanted — Heston (voice)
• I Am Not an Animal — Mark the Bird (voice), Producer
• 2004King of Fridges — Executive Producer
• Nighty Night — Executive Producer
• The All Star Comedy Show — Producer
• The Keith Barret Show — Producer
• The Mighty Boosh — Producer, Executive Producer
• 2003Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge — Alan Partridge, Writer
• 2003Appointment with Dr. Terrible — Interviewee, Executive Producer
• Brain Candy — Executive Producer
• 2003Paul and Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich — Duncan Thicket / Pauline Calf / Paul Calf, Writer
• 2003The Private Life of Samuel Pepys — Samuel Pepys, Executive Producer
• 200224 Hour Party People — Tony Wilson
• Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway — Alan Partridge - Guest Announcer
• 2002Cruise of the Gods — Nick Lee, Executive Producer
• 2002Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe — Blitzen (voice)
• Up in Town — Producer
• 2001Combat Sheep — Cmdr. Harris (voice)
• Dr Terrible's House of Horrible — Captain Hans Broken, Nathan Blaze, Dr Donald Baxter, Denham Denham, Lester Crown, Captain Tobias Slater, Executive Producer, Writer
• 2001Marion & Geoff: A Small Summer Party — Geoff, Executive Producer
• 2001The Parole Officer — Simon Garden, Writer
• The Sketch Show — Producer
• Curb Your Enthusiasm — Dr. Bright
• Human Remains — Producer
• Marion and Geoff — Associate Producer, Executive Producer
• Mrs Merton and Malcolm
• 1999Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire — Blitzen (voice)
• 1999Steve Coogan: The Man Who Thinks He's It — Writer
• 1998Alice Through the Looking Glass — Gnat
• 1998All Saints: The Video — Alan Partridge (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Bob and Margaret
• 1998The Revengers' Comedies — Bruce Tick
• I'm Alan Partridge — Alan Partridge, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• 1997Introducing Tony Ferrino: Who and Why? A Quest — Tony Ferrino
• 1997The Fix — Mike Gabbert
• 1997The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon — Tony Ferrino, Songs, Writer
• TFI Friday
• 1996The Wind in the Willows — Mole
• 1995Alan Partridge's Country Ramble — Alan Partridge, Writer
• Coogan's Run — Paul Calf / Pauline Calf / Gareth Cheeseman / Tim Fleck / Ernest Moss / Mike Crystal / Guy Slump, Writer, Additional Writing, Creator
• 1995The Indian in the Cupboard — Tommy
• 1994Filth! — Paul Calf/ Pauline Calf, Writer
• Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
• Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge — Alan Partridge, Creator
• 1994Pauline Calf's Wedding Video — Paul / Pauline Calf, Writer
• 1994Steve Coogan: Live 'n' Lewd — Various, Writer
• The Day Today — Alan Partridge / Various Characters, Writer
• Harry — Stebbings
• 1993Paul Calf's Video Diary — Paul Calf / Pauline Calf, Writer
• 1993Thatcherworld
• The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer — Lead Singer of Go West
• 1992Spitting Image: Election Special '92 — Various Roles
• The Dead Good Show — Various
• Packet of Three — Writer
• 1991Spitting Image: Best Of - Is Nothing Sacred? — Various characters (Voice)
• The Word
• 1989Resurrected — Youth 2
• 1989Spitting Image: The Sound of Maggie — Various Roles
• Tales from the Crypt — Danny Skeggs
• The Simpsons — Rowan Priddis (voice)
• Spitting Image
• The South Bank Show
• Bad Bridgets
• Love Is Not the Answer — Ingo
• The Adventures of Drunky — The Devil (voice)
• The Players — William MacCready, Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (46)

• 2025The Academy of Armando — Self
• 2023Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy — Self
• 2023Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial — Self
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self – Actor
• Newscast — Self
• 2020Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy — Self
• The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan — Self
• 2017Dying Laughing — Self
• 2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves — Self / Alan Partridge
• John Bishop: In Conversation with... — Self
• 2015Misery Loves Comedy — Self
• TFI Friday — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) — Self
• Off Camera with Sam Jones — Self
• 2014The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill — Self
• The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies — Himself
• The Last Leg — Self
• 2012Evidently... John Cooper Clarke — Himself
• The Jonathan Ross Show — Self
• Conan — Self, Self - Guest
• 2010I'm Still Here — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2010Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - Theatrical Release — Self
• 2010Whatever Happened to Spitting Image? — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story — Self
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• 2008The Mighty Boosh: A Journey Through Time and Space — Himself
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2007The Making of Marie Antoinette — Self
• 2006Saxondale: On The Road — Self
• 2006When Comedy Changed Forever — Self (archive material)
• Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown — Self
• 2003Coogan's Runner — Self – Executive Producer
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• 2002That Tony Wilson — Self
• Top Gear — Self
• 1999Rude For A Reason: Live from Brixton Academy — Himself
• Parkinson — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• The Frank Skinner Show — Self
• The Mrs Merton Show — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Terry Wogan's Friday Night — Self
• 1991Amnesty International's Big 30 — Self
• Question Time — Self - Panellist