Stephen Merchant

STEPHEN MERCHANT is an Emmy, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-winning director, actor, comedian, writer, and producer whose credits span film and television. He created, wrote, directed, and starred in the BAFTA-nominated series The Outlaws (BBC/Amazon) and recently appeared in Netflix’s Goodbye June and AMC’s The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Merchant wrote and directed MGM/Film4’s Fighting With My Family which stars Dwayne Johnson and Florence Pugh and co-created and starred in the Emmy-nominated HBO series Hello Ladies. His acting credits include Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, Logan, The Girl in the Spider’s Web and a critically acclaimed performance in BBC’s Four Lives. He created, wrote and directed The Office, Extras and Life’s Too Short with Ricky Gervais, along with co-writing and directing the movie Cemetery Junction. He co-produced An Idiot Abroad and executive produced the US version of The Office. Additional appearances include The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, The Good Place, The Simpsons, Hot Fuzz, Table 19, I Give It a Year and Hall Pass.

STEPHEN MERCHANT is an Emmy, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-winning director, actor, comedian, writer, and producer whose credits span film and television. He created, wrote, directed, and starred in the BAFTA-nominated series The Outlaws (BBC/Amazon) and recently appeared in Netflix’s Goodbye June and AMC’s The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Merchant wrote and directed MGM/Film4’s Fighting With My Family which stars Dwayne Johnson and Florence Pugh and co-created and starred in the Emmy-nominated HBO series Hello Ladies. His acting credits include Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, Logan, The Girl in the Spider’s Web and a critically acclaimed performance in BBC’s Four Lives. He created, wrote and directed The Office, Extras and Life’s Too Short with Ricky Gervais, along with co-writing and directing the movie Cemetery Junction. He co-produced An Idiot Abroad and executive produced the US version of The Office. Additional appearances include The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, The Good Place, The Simpsons, Hot Fuzz, Table 19, I Give It a Year and Hall Pass.

STEPHEN MERCHANT is a multi-award-winning actor, comedian, writer, director and producer, and one of the most versatile talents in TV and film.

Merchant can currently be seen in Season 3 of THE OUTLAWS, the hit BBC One/Amazon Studios comedy-drama series that he co-created, co-produced and stars in. Other acting credits also include the Oscar-nominated war satire JOJO RABBIT, the international blockbuster movie LOGAN, crime thriller THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB, and BBC’s FOUR LIVES, for which he received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the RTS Awards for his chilling portrayal of the infamous serial killer Stephen Port.

Merchant wrote and directed MGM/Film 4’s FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY, a movie he co-produced with Dwayne Johnson, based on the true story of WWE Superstar Paige and her family of professional wrestlers. Prior to that he was star, co-creator, co-writer and director of HBO’s HELLO LADIES, a sitcom based on his live stand-up show of the same name. The series ended with a feature-length HBO special and received two nominations at the 67^th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Merchant first shot to prominence as co-creator of BBC’s THE OFFICE and EXTRAS, both of which were critically acclaimed, earning multiple awards, including three BAFTA Awards, two British Comedy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Peabody Award.