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Ken Stott

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Kenneth Campbell Stott (born 19 October 1954) is a Scottish stage, television and film actor who won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1995 in the play Broken Glass at Royal National Theatre. He portrayed the dwarf Balin in The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014). His most notable roles in UK television include the title character DI John Rebus in the crime fiction-mystery series Rebus (2000–2007) and DCI Red Metcalfe in Messiah (2001–2005). He played Edward 'Eddie' McKenna in the Scottish BBC miniseries Takin' Over The Asylum (1994) co-starring with David Tennant, and Ian Garrett in the 2014 BBC TV mini-series The Missing alongside James Nesbitt. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Stott is the 4,657th most popular actor (up from 4,714th in 2019), the 3,859th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,604th in 2019) and the 545th most popular British Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ken Stott ranks 4,657 out of 13,578. Before him are Tatyana Vasilyeva, Kim So-yeon, Jordi Mollà, Míriam Colón, Gong Hyo-jin, and Vanessa Marquez. After him are Christina Pickles, John Kassir, Sean Patrick Flanery, Irina Miroshnichenko, Sophia Bush, and Uhm Jung-hwa.

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Among people born in 1954, Ken Stott ranks 338. Before him are Hanif Kureishi, Guy Kawasaki, Annette Haven, Jo Gartner, Jouko Törmänen, and Tarak Dhiab. After him are Amparo Muñoz, Ashrita Furman, Daniyal Akhmetov, Rahim Ademi, Dietrich Thurau, and Huub Rothengatter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ken Stott ranks 3,860 out of 8,785. Before him are Clint Mansell (1963), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Peter Withe (1951), Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885), Frederick Catherwood (1799), and Kenneth MacMillan (1929). After him are Christina Pickles (1935), Everard Home (1756), Ernest Belfort Bax (1854), William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843), Alex Garland (1970), and William Sherard (1659).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Ken Stott ranks 545. Before him are Theo James (1984), Jeremy Wade (1956), Robert Stephens (1931), Kenneth Cranham (1944), Rhona Mitra (1976), and Archie Panjabi (1972). After him are Christina Pickles (1935), Susan George (1950), Herbert Marshall (1890), Rose Leslie (1987), Ben Chaplin (1969), and Charles Shaughnessy (1955).

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