Stephen Marcus

Stephen Marcus (born Stephen Mark Scott; 18 June 1962) is a British actor, best known for his role as Nick the Greek in the British gangster classic Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).

Other credits include My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Hear My Song (1991), The Beautician and the Beast (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Quills (2000), Kinky Boots (2005), The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005), Hogfather (2006), Kingdom (2007), Lark Rise to Candleford (2008), Ninja Assassin (2009), Interview with a Hitman (2012), Starhunter ReduX (2017), Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story (2017), and The Big Ugly (2020).

Early life
Marcus, who was born June 18, 1962 in Portsmouth, Hampshire. became an actor in 1984 after three years of training at ArtsEd Performing Arts School in Chiswick, London Borough of Hounslow.

Career
Marcus spent his early career touring throughout London's parks and schools in Robin Hood & The Tree Trick, securing his first film role as 'Moose' in the cult film My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), alongside Saeed Jaffrey and Daniel Day-Lewis. From 1989, Marcus played Dave, the lover of Sharon, (played by Pauline Quirke), in the comedy Birds of a Feather (1989-1991).

A year of acting in commercials introduced Marcus to director Peter Chelsom, who cast him as Gordon in Hear My Song (1991), opposite Ned Beatty. He starred opposite Timothy Dalton in The Beautician and the Beast (1997), and alongside Richard Harris in Savage Hearts.

In 1996, Marcus's agent arranged a meeting for a small low-budget movie with a then-unknown director named Guy Ritchie, who offered Marcus the role of 'Nick the Greek', alongside Nick Moran, Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham and Matthew Vaughn, in British gangster comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Marcus appeared in Alan Parker's Angela's Ashes (1999); he played Bouchon in Quills (2000), alongside Kate Winslet, Michael Caine, Joaquin Phoenix and Geoffrey Rush; Kinky Boots (2005), he played Iris opposite Judi Dench, and  portrayed golfer Ted Ray in the Bill Paxton directed The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005).

Marcus starred in the television series: Starhunter 2300, in which he played Rudolpho De Luna; he played the co-lead in the BBC series Cavegirl; he played Banjo and Broadman in the adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (2006), and Marcus also appeared with Stephen Fry in Kingdom (2007). Marcus has also completed two films with the Wachowskis: Speed Racer and Ninja Assassin (2009).

In April 2012, he completed filming for independent British gangster thriller Two Days in the Smoke, in which he played the hitman Ben, alongside Snatch star Alan Ford and Matt Di Angelo from BBC Hustle. Smoke director Ben Pickering cast him as the vengeful Max in his second feature, the British psychological thriller Welcome to Curiosity (2018). The same year, launched a new Gangster London walking tour in association with Brit Movie Tours, in which he explores the dark history of London's East End. He also starred in Perry Bhandal's Interview with a Hitman (2012) as Traffikant, a Romanian Crime Boss, alongside Luke Goss.

He was series regular Matthew Welby in Lark Rise to Candleford (2008), and as Rudolpho deLuna in Starhunter ReduX (2017). He starred Jack Whomes in the British gangster movie Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story (2017).