liamliam
06-11-2013, 02:57 PM
English actor Stephen Graham from Liverpool (north west England). His paternal grandfather is fully Jamaican, and his father looks black. It's ironic seeing as he played a racist English skin head in This is England :D
Graham, who is 35, grew up in Kirkby, Liverpool, the son of a paediatric nurse and a social worker. If there were negative experiences in his childhood that he summons for his terrifying on-screen rage, then he is not revealing them, unless you count a week of racist bullying at school. Graham's grandfather was Jamaican and his dad, he says, is much blacker than he is. When he was subjected to racist taunts from boys at school, his mum marched him to the protagonists' houses. "She knocked on the door of this woman's house and said, 'Get your son out now; them two are going to fight in the garden, then it's all over with.' And I'm like, 'Mum!' And all of a sudden I felt 10ft tall. I went into the garden and I battered him, I beat him in the fight, and mum went, 'Right, next one.' But they didn't want to fight at the next house, and it stopped when I went into school the next day. I'm small but me ma's about 2ft 2in. She filled me with all this courage to stand up for myself."
http://1.2.3.11/bmi/i54.photobucket.com/albums/g117/bluecrayon77/DSC09494.jpg
http://1.2.3.10/bmi/1.2.3.12/bmi/24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzpuah5Pht1qdhjr4o1_500.jpg
http://1.2.3.12/bmi/1.2.3.11/bmi/25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwhyg14DWz1qa51o3o1_250.gif
http://1.2.3.9/bmi/1.2.3.9/bmi/24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljez9zf74h1qaxso1o1_500.png
http://1.2.3.9/bmi/imgs.littlewhitelies.co.uk/uploads/2009/10/stephen-graham.jpg
speaking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIwO9N5tic4
Graham, who is 35, grew up in Kirkby, Liverpool, the son of a paediatric nurse and a social worker. If there were negative experiences in his childhood that he summons for his terrifying on-screen rage, then he is not revealing them, unless you count a week of racist bullying at school. Graham's grandfather was Jamaican and his dad, he says, is much blacker than he is. When he was subjected to racist taunts from boys at school, his mum marched him to the protagonists' houses. "She knocked on the door of this woman's house and said, 'Get your son out now; them two are going to fight in the garden, then it's all over with.' And I'm like, 'Mum!' And all of a sudden I felt 10ft tall. I went into the garden and I battered him, I beat him in the fight, and mum went, 'Right, next one.' But they didn't want to fight at the next house, and it stopped when I went into school the next day. I'm small but me ma's about 2ft 2in. She filled me with all this courage to stand up for myself."
http://1.2.3.11/bmi/i54.photobucket.com/albums/g117/bluecrayon77/DSC09494.jpg
http://1.2.3.10/bmi/1.2.3.12/bmi/24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzpuah5Pht1qdhjr4o1_500.jpg
http://1.2.3.12/bmi/1.2.3.11/bmi/25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwhyg14DWz1qa51o3o1_250.gif
http://1.2.3.9/bmi/1.2.3.9/bmi/24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljez9zf74h1qaxso1o1_500.png
http://1.2.3.9/bmi/imgs.littlewhitelies.co.uk/uploads/2009/10/stephen-graham.jpg
speaking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIwO9N5tic4