Inside the life of Steve Coogan from quiet home life to rock star fling

Steve Coogan stars arsenic erstwhile Labour MP turned interviewer Brian Walden successful Channel 4 play Brian and Walden.

The caller Channel 4 play delves into however a azygous tv interrogation successful 1989 by ex-Labour MP Brian Walden (Steve Coogan) led to the downfall of erstwhile British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Harriet Walter).

The histrion and comedian is champion known for his comedic vigor and tv quality Alan Partridge, who has spawned respective bid and a film, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, and won him a fig of awards including a Bafta.

Coogan has besides starred successful Philomena, Stan and Ollie and The Reckoning Around the World successful 80 Days, Tropic Thunder, The Trip and Saxondale.

Beyond his acting and penning career, Coogan has deed the headlines for his relationships with models, well-known actresses and singers.

Early beingness and vocation of Steve Coogan

Born connected October 14, 1965, the prima grew up successful Alkrington successful Rochdale wherever helium gained 4 A-levels: English Literature, British Government and Politics, Art, and General Studies.

Coogan had a sensation for acting and drama and worked arsenic a dependable creator for tv advertisements and the satirical puppet amusement Spitting Image. He went connected to widen his drama vocation by performing successful sketch shows and astatine Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

While moving connected the Radio 4 drama On the Hour, Coogan created Alan Partridge, a parody of British sports presenters.

Arguably his well-known character, the quality had a fig of shows including Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, I'm Alan Partridge, Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle, This Time with Alan Partridge.

The quality had his ain movie called Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa and volition instrumentality for a caller BBC bid And Did Those Feet... With Alan Partridge aboriginal this year.

The 2000s saw Coogan modulation into films and much melodramatic roles, including 24 Hour Party People and played Octavius, a miniature Roman wide fig successful the Night astatine the Museum trilogy.

Coogan worked with Rob Brydon for the partially improvised BBC2 sitcom The Trip and consequent bid and films. Coogan enjoyed occurrence arsenic a writer and shaper successful Philomena and Stan & Ollie.

Recent roles see playing Jimmy Savile successful the BBC One bid The Reckoning, Paddy Meyers successful Joker: Folie à Deux and The Lost King.

Rock prima fling

In 2002, Coogan joined British socialite Caroline Hickman, but the brace divorced successful 2005, with Hickman saying the matrimony had irretrievably breached down.

The aforesaid twelvemonth Coogan's divorcement was granted, helium had a little two-week fling with Hole vocalist Courtney Love, who was joined to Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain.

In 2021, Love called the rendezvous "one of my life's large shames" connected societal media. In the post, the instrumentalist criticised her solo grounds America's Sweetheart, writing: "Like Steve Coogan, oregon crack, it's 1 of my life's large shames."

Asked astir the romance claims, Coogan erstwhile said: "Some of it was true, astir of it was b*****ks. To get the rubric of the film, it was 20 per cent c***, and 80 per cent bull."

Beyond Courtney Love, Coogan has had a fig of high-profile relationships. Coogan dated histrion and edifice heiress China Chow betwixt 2008 and 2011, exemplary Elle Basey betwixt 2011 and 2014 and Melanie Sykes successful 2018 and 2019.

Does Steve Coogan person immoderate children?

Steve Coogan has 1 girl from his narration with Anna Cole, namely Clare Coogan Cole.

The 26-year-old antecedently worked in administration and aboriginal campaigned for erstwhile lawman person of the Labour Party Lord Tom Watson for 3 years.

She has besides played insignificant roles successful her father's projects, including Saxondale, Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, and The Alan Partridge podcast.

Clare was antecedently a Production Assistant astatine Rag Doll TV Ltd, a TV institution that produces children's programmes.

Steve Coogan's quiescent beingness distant from the cameras

Coogan is understood to unrecorded successful the quiescent colony of Barcombe wrong the Lewes District of East Sussex. The picturesque East Sussex colony sits cosily upon the South Downs, distant from the hustle and bustle of metropolis life.

Coogan is good known for his emotion of cars, becoming thing of a motoring enthusiast implicit the years. As good arsenic a swimming excavation and tennis court, his mansion is believed to person plentifulness of abstraction for an array of cars, including a enactment of Ferraris.

Before moving to Barcombe, Coogan lived successful a beauteous location successful Ovingdean connected the outskirts of Brighton. Coogan lived successful a location that's celebrated successful its ain close - Ovingdean Grange.

The state mansion has 2 main claims to fame: portion known for being the location of Steve Coogan, it besides famously featured successful a well-known novel. The writer William Ainsworth, a person of Charles Dickens, wrote the caller Ovingdean Grange: A Tale Of The South Downs successful 1857.

Coogan paid £2.45 cardinal for the Grade II* listed location successful 2011, and lived determination for astir six years earlier listing it for merchantability for £3.5 million. The six-bedroom location is made up of 3 floors and comes with a courtyard garden, a cinema room, and a billiard room.