Stephen Billington

Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, Billington trained at the Drama Centre London,{{cite web| url=http://www.isda-acting.com/acting.html| title=Stephen Billington – Acting for Camera| publisher=isda-acting.com| accessdate=2 May 2013}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and was an unknown when chosen from hundreds who auditioned to play the lead part of Lysander Hawkley in The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1997).Richard Wallace, [https://web.archive.org/web/20180407120029/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-61114661.html Anyone for the Tennis Smasher?] dated 31 May 1997, in The Mirror (London, England), accessed 6 April 2018 He has gone on to work with many leading film directors, including Peter Greenaway, Franco Zeffirelli, and Mel Gibson. He also now teaches at the London School of Dramatic Art, the Drama Centre London, the Method Studio, London, and the City Literary Institute.

In 2011 he took to the stage to play John Proctor in Arthur Miller's The Crucible at the York Theatre Royal.{{cite news |title=The Crucible, Review|author=Alfred Hickling|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/may/11/the-crucible-review|newspaper=The Guardian|date=11 May 2011|accessdate=12 May 2011}} In 2013, he joined the cast of Channel 4 soap opera, Hollyoaks playing Danny Lomax.{{Cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hollyoaks/articles/all/an-interview-with-stephen-billington-danny|title = Hollyoaks – All 4}}

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Category:1964 births

Category:Living people

Category:English male film actors

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Category:Alumni of the Drama Centre London

Category:Actors from Farnworth

Category:Male actors from Lancashire

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