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Ken Stott in Toast (2010)

Biography

Ken Stott

Overview

  • Born
    October 19, 1954 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Birth name
    Kenneth Campbell Stott
  • Height
    5′ 7″ (1.70 m)

Mini bio

  • Ken was born in Edinburgh to an Italian mother and Scotish father, His mother was a lecturer in Italian literature at Edinburgh University where his father was doing a degree in teaching English. Ken's partner is the actress Dianah Sherlock and they've been together since 1983. Ken's done 3 series of The Vice and the film Shallow Grave.
    - IMDb mini biography by: Tonyman 5

Family

  • Spouse
      Elizabeth Maxwell(April 1984 - ?) (divorced, 1 child)

Trivia

  • Plays "Detective Inspector John Rebus", the protagonist in the "Inspector Rebus" series of detective novels by the award-winning Scottish writer Ian Rankin, ten of which have so far been televised as Rebus (2000). The novels are mostly set in and around Edinburgh.
  • He was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Play of 1996 for his performance in "ART".
  • His father was Scottish and his mother was Sicilian.
  • His mother is Italian. He also speaks Italian fluently.
  • Card-carrying Heart of Midlothian FC fan.

Quotes

  • When unions were involved you had to be a member of Equity to be an actor. There was a closed shop operating. It made life very difficult, it made it very, very difficult to become an actor. But those who did did so because they persevered. It would sort out the wheat from the chaff in that those who stuck with it, those who persevered went on. And of course it also meant that the standard of work you could in many ways rely on. Not so now, now anybody can be an actor, you don't have to a member of the union, you can work wherever you like, television, film, theatre. In London, in the West End, people pay 65 pounds to a hundred pounds for a seat, they want to see professionals, they don't want to see somebody who's made a bad choice choosing somebody who can't act. And the union would help in that way.

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