Born as Stephen John Coogan on the 14th October 1965 in Middleton, Lancashire, England, he is an Academy Award-nominated actor, screenwriter, producer, and stand-up comedian, perhaps best known to the world as Phileas Fogg in the remake of the adventure film “Around the World in 80 Days” (2004), then as Damien Cockburn in “Tropic Thunder” (2008), and as the titular character in “Alan Partridge” (2013). Coogan’s career started in the late 1980s.
Have you ever wondered how rich Steve Coogan is, as of mid-2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Coogan’s net worth is as high as $12 million, an amount earned largely through his successful acting career, but also from his work as a producer and screenwriter.
Steve Coogan Net Worth $12 Million
Steve is the middle of seven children of Kathleen, a housewife, and Anthony Coogan, an IBM engineer. He went to the Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School, and developed an interest towards impersonation, which ultimately led him to enroll at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre.
Steve started his career as a local impressionist in Ipswich, but in 1987 he got an opportunity to lend his voice to various characters in the television comedy series “Spitting Image”, appearing in 63 episodes until 1993, while a year later, he starred in the show called “The Day Today”. From 1994 to 1995, he played a lead in “Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, and then he had a role in Frank Oz’s “The Indian in the Cupboard” (1995). Steve continued with “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” (1996), starred in “The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon” (1997), and also played in 12 episodes of “I’m Alan Partridge” (1997-2002), all contributing to his growing net worth.
In the early 2000’s, Coogan starred alongside Lena Headey and Emma Gilmour in “The Parole Officer” (2001), and the same year played Dr. Terrible in six episodes of “Dr. Terrible’s House of Horrible”. After that, Steve starred in “Around the World in 80 Days” (2004) alongside Jackie Chan and Jim Broadbent, and in “Happy Endings” (2005) starring Lisa Kudrow and Maggie Gyllenhaal, and later that year starred in “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story” (2005), and then co-starred alongside Rebecca Romijn in “Lies & Alibis” (2006). He ended a decade with appearances in several popular movies such as “Night at the Museum” (2006) with Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino and Ricky Gervais, and “Hamlet 2” (2008) starring Elisabeth Shue and Catherine Keener. Also in 2008, Steve had a part in the Oscar Award-nominated blockbuster “Tropic Thunder” (2008) alongside Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.
From 2010 to 2016, Coogan played in 18 episodes of “Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge”, while from 2010 to 2017, he appeared in 18 episodes of “The Trip”. Also in 2010, Steve starred in “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”, and alongside Rob Brydon in the movie version of “The Trip”.
Switching to Hollywood helped Coogan to increase his net worth significantly. Steve stayed busy and appeared alongside Julianne Moore and Alexander Skarsgård in “What Maisie Knew” (2012). The next year was quite lucrative for Coogan as he played in “Alan Partridge” (2013) and received two Academy Award nominations for “Philomena” (2013) with Judie Dench, writing the screenplay too for this Stephen Frears’ film. In 2014, Steve co-starred in “The Trip to Italy” with Rob Brydon, had a lead role in the BAFTA-nominated “Northern Soul”, and appeared in “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb”. Most recently, he worked in the series called “Happyish” (2015), and in “The Trip to Spain” (2017) also with Rob Brydon. At the moment, Coogan is filming “Ideal Home”, “Irreplaceable You”, and “Stan and Ollie”, all of which will be released in late 2017 or 2018.
In October 2015, Coogan published his autobiography entitled “Easily Distracted”, the sales of which increased his net worth to a large degree.
Regarding his personal life, Steve Coogan was married to Caroline Hickman from 2002 to 2005. After that, he dated model China Chow, and it lasted three years. He shares a daughter with Anna Cole from an earlier relationship. Coogan openly supports the Labour Party.
BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Screenplay Award, British Academy Television Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme, British Academy Television Award for Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme, British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance, Satellite Aw...
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, BAFTA Award for Best British Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, British Academy Telev...
Movies
Philomena, The Trip to Italy, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Minions, 24 Hour Party People, The Secret Life of Pets, Around the World in 80 Days, Despicable Me 2, Tropic Thunder, The Look of Love, What Maisie Knew, Hamlet 2, A Cock and Bull Story, The Other Guys, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Ligh...
TV Shows
The Trip, Happyish, I'm Alan Partridge, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Saxondale, The Day Today, Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, Spitting Image, Coogan's Run, Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, I Am Not an Animal, Monkey Trousers, Neighbors from Hell, Bob and Margaret, Mrs Merto...
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I don't like modern jazz. I like smoother jazz, but not so smooth that it veers toward Chris De Burgh. That would be wrong.
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[on his multifaceted contributions to 'Philomena'] It was a cathartic experience for me. Comedy as an end in itself is like chocolate - enjoyable and not very nourishing. Why are people so scared of sincerity? I wanted to talk about important things.. I'm not portentous or self-righteous. I've still got prosaic tastes. I like cars! I'm not joyless.
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I don't have a Twitter thing. I don't do Facebook. I don't do any of that. I'm holding out.
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I like cars. I have about 10 - all British cars. I have a Lotus, Morgan, Aston Martin. I don't really drive them much because I'm scared of damaging them. I just clean them and look at them and sometimes I take them out on a Sunday up and down the road and then I come back and clean them again.
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I love "The Onion" on YouTube. It's one of the funniest things out there. And I like watching documentaries on BBC4. They don't insult your intelligence. But I have guilty pleasures, too. If I want to really dumb down, I'll watch Locked Up Abroad (2007). It's about people who get into trouble and get locked up in foreign prisons. If you're having a bad day, you look at that and think, you know what, I may be having a bad day, but I'm not locked up in a foreign prison.
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[Dec. 2013] I'm reading is "How To Live: Or a Life of Montaigne," by Sarah Bakewell. It's about this Renaissance writer Michel de Montaigne who wrote essays that together form a kind of manual on how to live your life, only he wrote it in the 1500s. It resonates still today. It's about not having to aspire to live in some perfect way but to somehow embrace your flaws. It's quite liberating and comforting.
[on the Leveson Inquiry into the British press] I got involved in Leveson because I knew no one else in the public eye would. They didn't want to take the risk. I thought the way the press behaved - and yes it was towards me, but also towards a lot of other people who didn't have a voice like me - was just wrong.
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When my life has been the subject of tabloid intrusion, what I have never done is get engaged in justifying myself. Celebrities who go round apologizing are pitiful, and don't do themselves any favors.
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People have made the observation, which is entirely valid, that Steve Coogan's becoming more like Alan Partridge. It's not actually true. Alan Partridge is becoming more and more like me.
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I don't talk about my personal life. I don't go in Hello! magazine to get a free kitchen because I show them my kitchen. I like to be creative, but I'm not interested in being recognized.
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I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product. Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do. One could argue that there are those who make their career out of being famous and those people do enter into a Faustian pact, where they use the press to raise their profile. They exploit the press for their own ends. They are in the fame game.
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The 'News of the World' is a misogynistic, single parent-hating, asylum seeker-hating newspaper, and it's gone to the wall, and I'm delighted.
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The big comic performance is a very obvious thing to do. The bolder, more inventive thing sometimes is the subtler, understated performance with minute shades and variations. If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.
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In comic acting, to improvise effectively is quite difficult. A lot of actors can improvise up to a certain level - an entry level, which is when you see the actors having more fun than the audience.
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I don't want to be someone who's trying to spin this public image of me. I have had some negative tabloid press, I'm sure you're aware [I am], but I don't like to portray myself as somehow a nice, well-rounded person.
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As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.
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I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.
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Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
His show, Steve Coogan is The Man Who Thinks He's It, was nominated for a 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Entertainment for the 1998 season.
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Older brother of Brandan Coogan (MUTV presenter) and younger brother of Martin Coogan (ex-lead singer of The Mock Turtles).
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The third of six children.
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His father was born in Manchester, of Irish descent. His mother is from Mayo, Ireland.
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Based the character of Alan Partridge on a radio presenter who interviewed him just as he was becoming famous. Coogan began mimicking the interviewer during the interview and from this came the inspiration for Coogan's most famous creation.
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Trained as an actor at Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre.
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Has worked on BBC radio.
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English actor whose versatile character portrayals, range of voices and gift for mimicry have earned him comparisons with the late Peter Sellers.
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