Steve Toussaint

Steve Toussaint, a British actor and writer, was born in Birmingham in 1965 and grew up in the New Cross area of South London. He took evening drama classes and made his professional debut in 1990 as the Genie in Aladdin at the Churchill Theatre. His theater work includes A Doll's House at the Young Vic, plus Macbeth and The Merchant of Venice with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His television breakthrough came with the role of Barrie Christie in The Knock, an ITV crime drama, across its 37 episodes between 1994 and 2000. He later appeared in Waking the Dead, My Dad's the Prime Minister, Line of Duty, Lewis, Pine Gap, and Small Axe: Red, White and Blue. His films include Shooting Dogs (2005), Mutant Chronicles (2008), and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010). In 2022 he took the part of Lord Corlys Velaryon in House of the Dragon, HBO's fantasy series.