
Stephen Mangan: When Mum died, I knew I couldn’t waste life being a lawyer- I had to act
From Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Published 11/21/2025

From Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Published 11/21/2025
Before he became one of Britain’s most familiar faces, Stephen Mangan was a bookish North London boy from an Irish working-class family- the son of a builder and a barmaid- who won a scholarship to a boarding school his parents didn’t want him to attend. From there to Cambridge, to RADA, and to the…