Edward Hogg
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Edward Hogg is an English actor, known for portraying Jesco White in White Lightnin'
and Stephen Turnbull in Bunny and the Bull
.
and raised in Sheffield
. His mother is a teacher and his father a retired civil engineer. As a teenager, Hogg was a member of several bands, including post-punk
group Porno King, in which he was the lead singer. When the band split, he joined an amateur dramatics
group, Sheffield MISTCO, with his younger sister, transferring his love of performance to acting.
Hogg trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
between 1999 and 2002.
. His other theatre work includes the inaugural production of King Lear
at the RSC Academy, Loot
at the Bristol Old Vic
, and the title role in Woyzeck
, both at the Gate Theatre, London, and off Broadway. Other credits include Measure for Measure
, The Tempest
, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
and Rock 'n' Roll
. Hogg has also appeared in The Pillowman
and Our Class, both at the National Theatre
.
On television, Hogg has appeared in Doctors, Heartbeat and Silent Witness
. He has lent his voice to the radio dramas Metropolis, Boxing Clever, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
and The Loop.
Hogg made his film debut in Nicholas Nickleby
(2002), playing the younger version of David Bradley
's character, Mr Bray. He played his first film lead role in White Lightnin (2009), as Jesco White. Hogg's other film credits include Alfie
(2004), Song of Songs
(2006), Bunny and the Bull (2009) and the short films Veteran and Shades of Beige.
Hogg will play the role of Robert Cecil
in Anonymous
(2011), directed by Roland Emmerich
. He will also appear in the forthcoming Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World (2010), Isle of Dogs (2010) and Me or the Dog
(2011), directed by Abner Pastoll
.
for his performance in the Gate Theatre, London production of Woyzeck. He was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2009
for his role in White Lightnin, and won Best Actor awards at the Monterrey and Mumbai Film Festivals for the same role.
In 2010 Hogg was the UK recipient of the Shooting Stars Award
at the Berlin Film Festival, and of the Chopard/Premiere Magazine Male Revelation of the Year Award 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival.
White Lightnin'
White Lightnin' is a 2009 dramatic thriller film directed by Dominic Murphy and written by Eddy Moretti and Shane Smith.White Lightnin' was inspired by the life of Jesco White, an Appalachian mountain dancer. It was shown at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.-Plot:Jesco White is the last of the West...
and Stephen Turnbull in Bunny and the Bull
Bunny and the Bull
Bunny and the Bull is a 2009 British comedy film from writer-director Paul King. It stars Edward Hogg and Simon Farnaby in a surreal recreation of a road trip...
.
Background
Hogg, the second of four children, was born in DoncasterDoncaster
Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, England, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The town is about from Sheffield and is popularly referred to as "Donny"...
and raised in Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
. His mother is a teacher and his father a retired civil engineer. As a teenager, Hogg was a member of several bands, including post-punk
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
group Porno King, in which he was the lead singer. When the band split, he joined an amateur dramatics
Amateur theatre
Amateur theatre is theatre performed by amateur actors. These actors are not typically members of Actors' Equity groups or Actors' Unions as these organizations exist to protect the professional industry and therefore discourage their members from appearing with companies which are not a signatory...
group, Sheffield MISTCO, with his younger sister, transferring his love of performance to acting.
Hogg trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...
between 1999 and 2002.
Career
Hogg made his professional debut in a production of My Father's Son at the Sheffield CrucibleCrucible Theatre
The Crucible Theatre is a theatre built in 1971 and located in the city centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. As well as theatrical performances, it is home to the most important event in professional snooker, the World Snooker Championship....
. His other theatre work includes the inaugural production of King Lear
King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
at the RSC Academy, Loot
Loot (play)
Loot is a two-act play by the English playwright Joe Orton. The play is a dark farce that satirises the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes to death, and the integrity of the police force....
at the Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Old Vic
The Bristol Old Vic is a theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, King Street, in Bristol, England. The theatre complex includes the 1766 Theatre Royal, which claims to be the oldest continually-operating theatre in England, along with a 1970s studio theatre , offices and backstage facilities...
, and the title role in Woyzeck
Woyzeck
Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of authors, editors and translators. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre...
, both at the Gate Theatre, London, and off Broadway. Other credits include Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was classified as comedy, but its mood defies those expectations. As a result and for a variety of reasons, some critics have labelled it as one of Shakespeare's problem plays...
, The Tempest
The Tempest
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a 2005 play by American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis first staged off-Broadway at The Public Theater on 2 March 2005 directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.-Plot summary:...
and Rock 'n' Roll
Rock 'n' Roll (play)
Rock 'n' Roll is a play by British playwright Tom Stoppard that premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2006.-Plot summary:The play is concerned with the significance of rock and roll in the emergence of the socialist movement in Eastern Bloc Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring of...
. Hogg has also appeared in The Pillowman
The Pillowman
The Pillowman is a 2003 play by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995...
and Our Class, both at the National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
.
On television, Hogg has appeared in Doctors, Heartbeat and Silent Witness
Silent Witness
Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
. He has lent his voice to the radio dramas Metropolis, Boxing Clever, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, An Un-historical Parable is a play by English playwright John Arden, written in 1959 and premiered at the Royal Court Theatre on October 22 of that year. In Arden's introductory note to the text, he describes it as "a realistic, but not a naturalistic" play...
and The Loop.
Hogg made his film debut in Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film)
Nicholas Nickleby is a 2002 comedy-drama film written and directed by Douglas McGrath. The screenplay is based on The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, which originally was published in serial form between March 1838 and September 1839.-Plot:In a prologue we are...
(2002), playing the younger version of David Bradley
David Bradley (actor)
David Bradley is an English character actor. He has recently become known for playing the caretaker of Hogwarts, Argus Filch, in the Harry Potter film franchise.-Life and career :...
's character, Mr Bray. He played his first film lead role in White Lightnin (2009), as Jesco White. Hogg's other film credits include Alfie
Alfie (2004 film)
Alfie is a 2004 British/American comedy-drama film based on the 1966 British film of the same name, starring Jude Law as the title character, originally played by Michael Caine. The film was written, directed and produced by Charles Shyer.-Plot:...
(2004), Song of Songs
Song of Songs (2006 film)
Song of Songs is a 2006 film directed by Josh Appignanesi and written by Josh Appignanesi and Jay Basu. It stars Natalie Press and Joel Chalfen...
(2006), Bunny and the Bull (2009) and the short films Veteran and Shades of Beige.
Hogg will play the role of Robert Cecil
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC was an English administrator and politician.-Life:He was the son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and Mildred Cooke...
in Anonymous
Anonymous (film)
Anonymous is a political thriller and historical drama which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011. Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff, the movie is a fictionalized version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan...
(2011), directed by Roland Emmerich
Roland Emmerich
Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer.His films, most of which are Hollywood productions filmed in English, have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide, more than those of any other European director...
. He will also appear in the forthcoming Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World (2010), Isle of Dogs (2010) and Me or the Dog
Me or the Dog
Me or the Dog is a 2011 short film directed by Abner Pastoll, produced by Junyoung Jang and starring Edward Hogg, about a man who believes that his dog Dudley is talking to him...
(2011), directed by Abner Pastoll
Abner Pastoll
Abner Pastoll is a British film director and screenwriter based in London. His credits include the feature film Shooting Shona , and the short films The Secret Wish , Homicide: Division B , A Great Mistake and Me or the Dog , starring Edward Hogg and featuring the voice of Martin Clunes.-External...
.
Awards and recognition
Hogg was awarded a Commendation at the 2005 Ian Charleson AwardsIan Charleson Awards
The Ian Charleson Awards is a British theatrical award to reward the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors aged under 30. It is named in memory of the late actor Ian Charleson and is run by the Sunday Times newspaper and the National Theatre...
for his performance in the Gate Theatre, London production of Woyzeck. He was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2009
British Independent Film Awards 2009
The 12th British Independent Film Awards, held on 6 December 2009 at The Brewery in West London, honoured the best British independent films of 2009.-Best British Independent Film:* Moon* An Education* Fish Tank* In The Loop...
for his role in White Lightnin, and won Best Actor awards at the Monterrey and Mumbai Film Festivals for the same role.
In 2010 Hogg was the UK recipient of the Shooting Stars Award
Shooting Stars Award
The Shooting Stars Award is annually presented to ten young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was introduced in 1998 by European Film Promotion , a pan-European network of film promotion and export organisations, and is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the EU...
at the Berlin Film Festival, and of the Chopard/Premiere Magazine Male Revelation of the Year Award 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival.
Films
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Nicholas Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) Nicholas Nickleby is a 2002 comedy-drama film written and directed by Douglas McGrath. The screenplay is based on The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, which originally was published in serial form between March 1838 and September 1839.-Plot:In a prologue we are... |
Young Mr Bray | Non-speaking role |
| 2004 | Alfie Alfie (2004 film) Alfie is a 2004 British/American comedy-drama film based on the 1966 British film of the same name, starring Jude Law as the title character, originally played by Michael Caine. The film was written, directed and produced by Charles Shyer.-Plot:... |
Bright Young Thing | |
| 2005 | Brothers of the Head Brothers of the Head Brothers of the Head is a 2005 mockumentary featuring the story of Tom and Barry Howe , conjoined twins living in the United Kingdom... |
Chris Dervish | Credited as Ed Hogg |
| 2006 | Song of Songs Song of Songs (2006 film) Song of Songs is a 2006 film directed by Josh Appignanesi and written by Josh Appignanesi and Jay Basu. It stars Natalie Press and Joel Chalfen... |
Luke | Uncredited |
| 2009 | White Lightnin' White Lightnin' White Lightnin' is a 2009 dramatic thriller film directed by Dominic Murphy and written by Eddy Moretti and Shane Smith.White Lightnin' was inspired by the life of Jesco White, an Appalachian mountain dancer. It was shown at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.-Plot:Jesco White is the last of the West... |
Jesco White | Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2009; Winner of Best Actor Award at the Monterrey International Film Festival 2009; Winner of Silver Gateway of India Best Actor Award at the 11th Mumbai Film Festival, 2009 |
| Bunny and the Bull Bunny and the Bull Bunny and the Bull is a 2009 British comedy film from writer-director Paul King. It stars Edward Hogg and Simon Farnaby in a surreal recreation of a road trip... |
Stephen Turnbull | ||
| 2010 | Ollie Kepler’s Expanding Purple World | Ollie Kepler | Premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2010 |
| Isle of Dogs | Riley | Premiered at London's FrightFest 2010 | |
| 2011 | Anonymous Anonymous (film) Anonymous is a political thriller and historical drama which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011. Directed by Roland Emmerich and written by John Orloff, the movie is a fictionalized version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, an Elizabethan... |
Robert Cecil Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC was an English administrator and politician.-Life:He was the son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and Mildred Cooke... |
Post-production |
Television
| Year | Show | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Celeb | Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records... - The Guest (2002) |
Comedy |
| Heartbeat | Danny - Growing Apart (2002) |
Period police drama Police procedural The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several... |
|
| 2004 | The Bermuda Triangle: Beneath the Waves | Lt Charles Taylor | Drama |
| 2007 | Doctors | Toby Parker - Hero (2007) |
Soap opera |
| 2010 | Silent Witness Silent Witness Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was... |
Howard Day - Voids: Part One (2010) |
Crime drama Crime film Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films... |
| Misfits Misfits (TV series) Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television series about a group of young offenders forced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm. The first series started broadcasting on 12 November 2009 on E4, and was... |
Elliot/Jesus Christ - Christmas Special (2010) |
Comedy-drama |