Stephen Hogan
Stephen Hogan is an Irish actor and audiobook narrator.
Biography
Hogan was born in August 1965 and grew up in Dartry, Dublin, Ireland. 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. Stephen says he studied architecture at Edinburgh University but upon graduating did not see himself in that profession for the remainder of his life. He says he obtained financially useful scholarship to Royal College of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and was also able to obtain a part-time job in an architect's office at the same time.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". He moved to London after leaving the soap, but has returned to Ireland frequently for work and pleasure since.
His uncle, Paul Hogan, was one of two students behind the audacious 1956 theft of Summer's Day from the Tate Gallery. Hogan played his uncle in a radio play based on the event in 2005, and is collaboration on attempts to develop a film based on the theft. Hogan states on Twitter he is a director of Gallery Films.
Hogan adapted to the UK's first COVID-19 lockdown 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. He say he voiced the character Kurtz from the Conrad novel Heart of Darkness from his home for a BBC4 production.
Hogan has interviewed about the upcoming Netflix 2022 release of Vikings: Valhalla where he has the character of Ealdorman Sigeferth of Wessex.
Works
Film
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, in which critic Justin Richards averred that he "manages to portray an okay representation" of hostage Adam Smith.| Year | Title | Role | References and notes |
| 1996 | Some Mother's Son | Young Turk | |
| 1999 | Vicious Circle | Frankie | |
| 2003 | Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor | Joseph Reed | |
| 2008 | Starship Troopers 3: Marauder | Sky Marshall Omar Anoke | |
| 2009 | Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution | Maximilien Robespierre | Drama-DocumentaryLead role |
| 2011 | Kingdom of Dust: Beheading of Adam Smith | Adam David Smith | Lead role |
| 2013 | The Sweeter Side of Life | Wade Harper | |
| 2013 | Dracula: The Dark Prince | Renfield | |
| 2013 | Earthbound | Dr. Richard Webb | |
| 2016 | Jarhead 3: The Siege | Ambassador Dan Cahill | |
| 2016 | Handsome Devil | Connor Master's dad | |
| 2017 | The Foreigner | henchman Christy Murphy | |
| 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Viviane Wembly's Father | |
| 2017 | The Young Karl Marx | Thomas Naylor | |
| 2018 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | John Blackwood | |
| 2018 | Show Dogs | Bullmastiff, Canini Announcer | |
| 2020 | Dragon Rider | Spinecrackle | |
| 2021 | Sardar Udham | Detective Inspector Swain | Indian Hindi-language film |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | Take the High Road | Nick Stapleton | |
| 1995 | Fair City | Sam Costigan/Sam Maguire/Brian Sweeney | |
| 1996 | The Governor | Declan Lowndes | |
| 2002 | Doctors | Robert Brackley/Blake Calverly | |
| 2005 | Totally Frank | Freddie | |
| 2006 | The Line of Beauty | News presenter | |
| 2008 | The Tudors | Sir Henry Norris | |
| 2011 | Primeval | Henry Merchant | |
| 2011 | Injustice | Eric Duncann | |
| 2012 | Saving the Titanic | Thomas Andrews | |
| 2015 | X Company | General Ned Butler | |
| 2016 | Harley and the Davidsons | U.S. Army general | |
| 2017 | Kat & Alfie: Redwater | Padraig Kelly | |
| 2018 | They Shall Not Grow Old | Various character voicing | |
| 2020 | Thieves of the Wood | Meyvis | |
| 2021 | Capitani | English re-voice of series regular | |
| 2021 | Red Election | MI5 agent Alaric Henderson | |
| 2021 | Ridley Road | George Lincoln Rockwell | |
| 2022 | Vikings: Valhalla | Sigeferth, Ealdorman of Wessex |
Radio and audio
Hogan has also narrated a number of audiobook recordings with Penguin Random House. The audio book of The Secret Place won Library Journal's Best Media 2014. His respective narration in The Heart's Invisible Furies and Typhoon won the AudioFile Magazine Earphone Awards.| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1999 | Hamlet | Rosencrantz | |
| 2005 | Taking the Picture | Paul Hogan | |
| 2007 | Hellgate: London | Video game Voice actor | |
| 2008 | The Secret Scripture | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2009 | Killzone 2 | Video game voice actor for Helghast | |
| 2009 | The Saboteur | Video game voice actor for Sean Devlin | |
| 2009 | Typhoon | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2010 | The Robot Wars / Penrose Series | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2011 | The Plough and the Stars | Peter | |
| 2012 | Broken Harbour | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2012 | The Zombie Survival Guide | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2014 | Divinity: Original Sin | Video game voice actor | |
| 2014 | Lords of the Fallen | Video game voice actor | |
| 2014 | The Secret Place | One of the audiobook narrators | |
| 2016 | Murphy | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2016 | Hunters in the Dark | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2017 | The Heart's Invisible Furies | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2017 | Divinity: Original Sin II | Video game voice actor for Goblin King | |
| 2017 | Midwinter Break | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2018 | Michael O'Leary | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2018 | Last Stories | One of the audiobook narrators | |
| 2018 | The Heather Blazing | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2018–20 | Skulduggery Pleasant | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2019–20 | Three books of The Sonchai Jitpleecheep Series | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2020 | Weird Tales | One of the audiobook narrators | |
| 2020 | Little Cruelties | One of the audiobook narrators | |
| 2020 | The Guns of Easter | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2021 | Heart of Darkness | Kurtz | |
| 2021 | Cowboys and Indians | Audiobook narrator | |
| 2021 | Sláine the Horned God | One of the audiobook narrators | |
| 2021 | Mosley Must Fall | Liam McEnroe | |
| 2023 | Baldur's Gate III | Volo | - |
Theatre and musical
Having trained at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he has worked extensively in UK and Irish theaters.| Year | Title | Role | Location |
| 2019 | Napoli, Brooklyn, directed by Lisa Blair | Albert Duffy | Oxford Playhouse |
| 2018 | Mad as Hell, directed by Cassie McFarlane | Peter Finch/Howard Beale | Jermyn Street Theatre |
| 2011 | The Field, directed by Joe Dowling | Willie Dee | Royal Theatre |
| 2006 | Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Karen Louise Hebden | Jerome | Derby Playhouse |
| 2006 | The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Conall Morrison | Algernon Moncrieff | Abbey Theatre |
| 2004 | A Doll's House, directed by Graham McLaren | Torvald Helmer | Perth Theatre |
| 2002 | Possible Worlds, directed by Adrian Osmond | George Barber | Tron Theatre |
| 2001 | The Playboy of the Western World, directed by Robert Delamere | Shawn Keogh | Liverpool Playhouse |
| 2000 | Medea, directed by Graham McLaren | Jason | Old Fruit Market of Glasgow |
| 2000 | Peer Gynt, directed by Conall Morrison | Bigriffenfeldt | Royal National Theatre |
| 1999 | Fast Food, directed by Marianne Elliott | Billy | Manchester Royal Exchange |
| 1998 | Richard III, directed by Paul Kerryson | King Edward IV & Sir William Catesby | Leicester Haymarket Theatre |
| 1998 | Saint Joan, directed by Patrick Mason | John de Stogumber, English chaplain | Abbey Theater |
| 1997 | The Heiress, directed by Michael Colgan and Michael Rudman | Morris Townsend | Gate Theatre |
| 1995 | Angels in America, directed by Patrick Mason and Conall Morrison | Joe Pitt, The Eskimo, Ghost Prior | Abbey Theatre |