Eddie Marsan

Eddie Marsan is an English actor, born in 1968 in the Stepney district of London, who trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and began on television in 1992 in The Piglet Files. Steady British television work in series such as Game On, Casualty, The Bill and Silent Witness led to film roles in Gangs of New York, Vera Drake, V for Vendetta, Mission: Impossible III, Hancock, where he played the villain, and Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes, in which he played Inspector Lestrade. His performance in Happy-Go-Lucky in 2008 earned the London Film Critics Circle Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor. He later played Terry Donovan in Ray Donovan on Showtime, appeared in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell for the BBC, and played Mitch Winehouse in Back to Black in 2024. He was made an OBE in 2025 for services to drama. The atlas records him as a screen character actor working across British and American film and television.