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Stephen Hogan is an Irish actor and audiobook narrator.
Biography
Hogan was born in August 1965 and grew up in Dartry, Dublin, Ireland.[1] He is the son of Brian Hogan, a prominent Dublin architect, and Marie née Lawton. His grandfather, Sarsfield Hogan, was a noted Irish civil servant and insurance company executive.[2] Stephen says he studied architecture at Edinburgh University but upon graduating did not see himself in that profession for the remainder of his life.[1] He says he obtained financially useful scholarship to Royal College of Music and Drama in Glasgow (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), and was also able to obtain a part-time job in an architect's office at the same time.[1]
Upon qualifying from drama school in 1992 Hogan says he was lucky to get a role on the long running Scottish Soap drama Take the High Road with its "crazy characters", his recollections of his storylines as new character was "I worked my way through the entire female case over 60 episodes".[1] He moved to London after leaving the soap, but has returned to Ireland frequently for work and pleasure since.[1]
His uncle, Paul Hogan, was one of two students behind the audacious 1956 theft of Summer's Day from the Tate Gallery.[3][4] Hogan played his uncle in a radio play based on the event in 2005,[5][6] and is collaboration on attempts to develop a film based on the theft.[3][4] Hogan states on Twitter he is a director of Gallery Films.[7]
Hogan adapted to the UK's first Covid-19 Pandemiclockdown by adapting purchasing a quality digital microphone and investing in acoustic paneling which enabled him to record audiobooks such as City in Flames, though he says building work pile-driving near his home has caused inconveniences.[8] He say he voiced the character Kurtz from the Conrad novel Heart of Darkness from his home for a BBC4 production.[8]
Hogan played Sky Marshall Omar Anoke, a major role in science-fiction film Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. He played the lead role of Adam Smith in Iraq war drama Kingdom of Dust: Beheading of Adam Smith,[10][better source needed] in which critic Justin Richards averred that he "manages to portray an okay representation" of hostage Adam Smith.[10]
^"All ears for audiobooks; With print books enjoying a revival, new research shows listening to novels is helping convert non-readers. Tanya Sweeney reports; 'People are now listening to stories instead of albums'". Irish Independent. 20 April 2018. p. 31.
^O'Kelly, Emer (16 July 2006). "Revised cast and treatment is an Earnest improvement on the first". Sunday Independent. p. 1.
^Scott, Robert Dawson (22 March 2004). "A Doll's House". The Times. p. 15.
^Burnet, Andrew (22 September 2002). "John Mighton's dramatic love story Possible Worlds teases the audience into a parallel universe of romance, murder and mathematics". Sunday Herald. p. 12.
^Peter, John (13 May 2001). "The Playboy of the Western World". The Sunday Times. p. 25.
^Peter, John (26 March 2000). "Oedipus/Electra/Medea - Rest of the week's theatre". The Sunday Times. p. 14.
^Wolf, Matt (27 November 2000). "PEER GYNT Review". Variety. Vol. 381, no. 2. p. 17. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
^ abChristopher, James (5 November 1998). "Review". The Times. p. 42.
^Hulme, Alan (26 March 1999). "FAST FOOD Royal Exchange Studio - Recipe for a tasty night out". Manchester Evening News.