Steve Speirs

Steve Speirs is a Welsh actor and writer who trained with the National Youth Theatre of Wales and later took a drama degree at Loughborough University. He played Captain Tarpals in the Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace (1999), Sloan in Eragon (2006) and a role written especially for him in Cemetery Junction (2010), and he appeared in Sharpe's Peril (2008) as Colour Sergeant Wormwood. His television work includes Ricky Gervais's Extras, Big Alan Williams in Stella, Gareth Barber in the BBC One sitcom Big School, and Richard Burbage in Ben Elton's Upstart Crow, a part he carried through several series and later played in the West End. He wrote and starred in Caught in the Act in 2008, and created, wrote and starred in The Tuckers for BBC Wales.