Ken Stott
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 is more recently known for his role as the dwarf Balin in The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and as Ian Garrett in the 2014 BBC TV mini-series The Missing starring alongside James Nesbitt.
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| Full name at birth | Kenneth Campbell Stott
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| Claim to fame | The Boxer
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| Date of birth | 19 October 1954
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| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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| Occupation | Actor, Voice Artist
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| Height | 5' 7" (170 cm)
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| Distinctive feature | (born in 1954)
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| Net worth | $3,000,000 USD
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| High school | George Heriot's School
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| University | Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London
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- His father was Scottish and his mother was Sicilian.
- Plays "Detective Inspector John Rebus", the protagonist in the "Inspector Rebus" series of detective novels by the award-winning Scottish writer Ian Rankin, ten of which have so far been televised as Rebus (2000). The novels are mostly set in and around Edinburgh. [December 2009]
- He was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Play of 1996 for his performance in "ART".
- Son Bill, born 1984/85, with first wife Elizabeth, a screen director
Ken Stott is known for his role in the film The Dig (2021) as Charles Phillips.
He is also known for his role in the film The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) as Balin.
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