Kenneth Campbell "Ken" Stott (born 19 October 1954) is a Scottish actor, particularly known in the United Kingdom for his many roles in television. He is best known for his roles as the eponymous title character in the crime fiction-mystery series Rebus (2006–07) and the dwarf Balin in The Hobbit film franchise (2012–14).
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominations
British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
Movies
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Café Society, Shallow Grave, Man Up, King Arthur, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Charlie Wilson's War, Plunkett & Macleane, The Mighty Celt, One Day, The Boxer, Spivs, I'll ...
TV Shows
Send in the Dogs, Messiah, Rebus, The Vice, Takin' Over the Asylum, Your Cheatin' Heart, The Missing, The Runaway, Rhodes, A Mug's Game
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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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His mother is Italian. He also speaks Italian fluently.
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His father was Scottish and his mother was Sicilian.
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Starring in 'God of Carnage' at the Gielgud Theatre, London. [April 2008]
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Starring as "Eddie Carbone" in Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" at the Duke of York's theatre in London's West End. [January 2009]
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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. [December 2009]
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Card-carrying Heart of Midlothian FC fan.
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He was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Play of 1996 for his performance in "ART".
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Son Bill, born 1984/85, with first wife Elizabeth, a screen director.
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