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Steve Oram
Steve Oram
	Steve Oram at Sightseers Premiere at the 2012 Dublin Film Festival
Born	Stephen John Oram; 1973 (age 51–52); Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England
Occupations	Actor; comedian; writer; filmmaker;
Years active	2001–present

Stephen John Oram (born 1973)^[1] is an English actor, comedian, writer, and filmmaker. He is known for his role in the multi-award winning 2012 film Sightseers, which he also co-wrote. His other credits include People Like Us (2001), It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004), Tittybangbang (2006–2007), Suburban Shootout (2006), The Mighty Boosh (2007), Connections (2008), The World's End (2013), Wipers Times (2013), The Secrets (2014), The Canal (2014), Altar (2014), Paddington (2014), Glue (2014), Aaaaaaaah! (2015), The Living and the Dead (2016), A Dark Song (2016), The End of the F***ing World (2017–2019), Ghosts (2019), Doctor Who (2021), Killing Eve (2022), and D.I Ray (2022–2023).

Life and career

Oram was born in 1973,^[1] in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England.^[2]^[3] He studied at the University of East Anglia, taking degrees in both English and film.^[1]^[3]

Career

He started as a character comedian on the comedy circuit and performed several comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe with comedy partner Tom Meeten during the early 2000s.^[4] He also appeared at Ealing Live, a comedy night at Ealing Studios, where he met and started working with Alice Lowe.^[5]

In 2002, Oram and Meeten wrote, composed the music and starred in Channel 4's Matthew & Tone: Tales of Friendship and Innocence.^[3] It was directed by Dominic Brigstocke and screened in season 5 of the Comedy Lab series.^[3]

Oram appeared in various TV & film roles throughout the 2000s including the second series of People Like Us (2001), the feature film It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004) starring Paul Kaye, Tittybangbang (2006–07) and Suburban Shootout (2006).^[6] He also played Donnie the tramp in the series written by and starring Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, series 3 of The Mighty Boosh (2007).^[6]

In 2008, his short film Connections screened at Cannes Film Festival as part of the official Straight 8 selection.^[7]

He also appeared alongside Alice Lowe as a support act in Steve Coogan's 2008–09 stand up tour "Steve Coogan is.....Alan Partridge and other less successful characters".^[6]

Oram has written and directed numerous short films under the pseudonym "Steve Aura" and released under the banner of Lincoln Studios.^[8]

With Meeten, he performs a long-running comedy show in London called Oram & Meeten's Club Fantastico.^[9]

In 2012, Oram and Lowe starred in Ben Wheatley's dark comedy Sightseers.^[6] The film was written by Oram and Lowe with additional material by Amy Jump.^[10]^[11]

Since then, Oram has taken on roles in films including Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's The World's End (2013),^[6] The Canal (2014),^[6] Altar (2014) and Paddington (2014).^[6]

On television, he has appeared in Wipers Times (2013) written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, an episode of The Secrets (2014) alongside Alison Steadman and Olivia Colman,^[12] an episode of Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy (2014), the Jack Thorne series Glue (2014) and The Living and the Dead (2016).^[6]

Oram released his directorial debut Aaaaaaaah! in 2015,^[3] a film in which the characters communicate entirely in ape-like grunts.^[3] It starred Oram himself alongside Julian Barratt, Toyah Willcox, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Noel Fielding and Holli Dempsey.^[3] The film's soundtrack features a number of tracks from the King Crimson ProjeKcts albums.^[13]

In 2016, he starred as Joseph Solomonin in A Dark Song.^[14]

In 2019, he appeared as Terry in the BBC series Ghosts.^[6]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Ant Muzak	Marco	Short film
2004	It's All Gone Pete Tong	Blinky
2005	The Wingnut Tapes	Dad	Short film. Co-writer
2008	Connections	Man	Short film; Writer/director
2011	Kill List	Radio Reporter
2012	Sightseers	Chris	Also co-writer
2013	Welcome to the Punch	Journalist
2013	The World's End	Motorcycle Policeman
2014	The Last Summer On Earth	Ginger Goofball	Short film. Co-writer
	Cuban Fury	Security guard Kevin
	The Canal	McNamara
	Altar	Nigel Lean
	Paddington	Paddington Station Security Guard
2015	Captain Webb	Professor Fred Beckwith
	The Bad Education Movie	Officer Rowe
	Aaaaaaaah!	Smith	Writer / Director
	Sarah Chong Is Going To Kill Herself	The Bosses	Short film
2016	A Dark Song	Joseph Solomon	^[14]
2018	In Fabric	Clive
2022	This is Christmas	Conductor
2022	Mind-set	Paul
2023	Love Again	Richard Hughes
2023	Sky Peals	Jeff

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	People Like Us	Policeman/Sound Engineer
2002	Live Floor Show	Mr Richards
	Hardware	Builder
	Green Wing	Security Guard
	Comedy Lab: Matthew & Tone: Tales of Friendship and Innocence	Tone
2005	Twisted Tales	Detective Sergeant Jack Tanner	Episode: "Death Metal Chronicles"
2005	Comedy Lab: Skin Deep	Carl
2006	Suburban Shootout	Plumber
2006–07	Tittybangbang	Various characters
2007	Where Are the Joneses?	Carston Whelk
2007	The Mighty Boosh	Donni	The Strange Tale of the Crack Fox
2008	LifeSpam: My Child is French	Various characters
2011	Dick and Dom's Funny Business	Teacher
2011	The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret	Officer Petty Hurt
2012	Miranda	Policeman
2013	Life's Too Short	Paul Jacobs
	Heading Out	Daniel
	The Wipers Times	Sergeant Harris
	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Mr Smyth
2014	The Job Lot	Keith Taylor
	The Secrets	Shaun	The Dilemma
	Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy	Terry	Series 2 Episode 2 Fantasy Block
	Glue	George
2016	Midsomer Murders	Nathan Tonev
2016	The Living and the Dead	John Roebuck
2017	The Moorside	DC Alex Grummit
2017–2019	The End of the F*ing World	Phil
2018	Death in Paradise	Dean Shanks	S7:E3 "Written in Murder"
	Hang Ups	Neil Quinn
	Sally4Ever	Mick
2019	Ghosts	Terry
2019	Not Going Out	Dave the builder	Series 10 (Episode 7)
2021	Line of Duty	Medical counsellor	Series 6 (Episode 7)
2021	Doctor Who	Joseph Williamson	Series 13
2022	Killing Eve	Phil
2022–present	D.I Ray	DS Clive Bottomley

Awards and recognition

2012 (2012): Awarded Best Screenplay (with Alice Lowe) by British Independent Film Awards for Sightseers
2012 (2012): Nominated Best Actor by British Independent Film Awards for Sightseers
2012 (2012): Awarded Best Screenplay (with Alice Lowe) by Mar del Plata Film Festival for Sightseers
2012 (2012): Awarded Best Screenplay (with Alice Lowe) by Sitges Film Festival for Sightseers
2013 (2013): Nominated Best Male Newcomer by Empire Awards for Sightseers
2013 (2013): Awarded Breakthrough British Filmmaker (with Alice Lowe) by London Critics Circle Film Awards for Sightseers
2013 (2013): Nominated ALFS Award – British Actor of the Year by London Critics Circle Film Awards for Sightseers
2013 (2013): Nominated Best First Feature-Length Film Screenplay (with Alice Lowe) by Writers' Guild of Great Britain for Sightseers
2015 (2015): Nominated The Discovery Award by British Independent Film Awards for Aaaaaaaah!
2016 (2016): Special Jury Mention New Direction Competition by Cleveland International Film Festival for Aaaaaaaah!