Stephen Graham has dedicated his OBE to his mum after she died recently.
The Kirkby-born actor was awarded an OBE for services to drama in the New Year's Honours List. Stephen was nominated for three BAFTAs this year for performances in Time, Boiling Point and Help - a Channel 4 drama set in a Liverpool care home during the pandemic.
In a post on his Twitter and Instagram pages today Stephen said he would share the honour with his mum, who died "a few days ago". On Instagram, the actor wrote: "A few days ago… this incredible, inspirational, warrior woman with the purest heart… my mum passed away.
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"Her words as a child 'no one is above you and no one is below you… all are equal' have remained with me throughout my life. I feel so honoured and proud to share this with her… An OBE for both of us mum."
Over a three-decade career, Stephen has won praise for his roles in Hollywood films and TV dramas. Notably, he starred in the 2000 crime film Snatch alongside Brad Pitt and Jason Statham and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman in which he played real-life mobster Anthony Provenzano alongside Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
The 49-year-old also played criminals Stephen Shang in Gangs Of New York in 2002, Baby Face Nelson in Public Enemies in 2009 and Al Capone in period crime drama Boardwalk Empire. He is perhaps best known for his role of short-fused English nationalist Andrew “Combo” Gascoigne in the film This Is England, a role which he reprised in three Channel 4 series set in 1986, 1988 and 1990.
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