Steven Cole was born on the 18th of March 1982 and brought up in the Sefton Park area of Liverpool. He had aspirations to be an entertainer from an early age and explains that moving into TV was a bit of a fluke. "My older brother was in uni and started doing extra work to supplement his studying funds. He was doing a show for BBC2, a drama called 'Brothers and Sisters', and he came home one day and said Jeffrey, the butler from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, was in the show. I was a massive fan of that at the time and I said 'I want to meet him' so he signed me up for the extras agencies. I did get to be an extra in one of the scenes, even though I never got to meet him, and the next thing I knew there was a role coming up in 'Brookside', So, whilst doing his GCSEs at Calderstones School in 1996 he auditioned for the role of Leo Johnson in the Merseyside set soap opera, staying in the show until 2001. His character was played by Leeon Sawyer when Leo arrived on the Close in March 1990 until September 1996. Then Steven took over the role from December 1996 where his character stayed until his departure in April 2001. Steven says, "Brookside was a real foundation for me, and I learnt such a lot, but it's like a lifetime ago now. I started on it when I was 14 and still doing my GCSEs, and left when I was 20. But I did things back to front, really, because I wasn’t trained at all then I worked steadily for six years on TV, then I started living real life as an actor ... which was out of work!"
Since 'Brookside' he has appeared in several popular dramas on British television, from ''Doctors' (2003), 'Merseybeat' (2003), 'One Way Love' (2005), 'Lycanthropy' (2006) and 'Death in Paradise' before in 2012 he joined the huge international cast of the globally successful 'Game of Thrones' and has become a huge fan favourite on both sides of the Atlantic, starring in what has been hailed as the most ambitious and successful fantasy TV series of all time as Kovarro. The news was revealed via Twitter on the 7th of September 2012 that Steven had been cast in a role on 'Game of Thrones', debuting in the second season. Initially, the role he was playing was not revealed, but on the 15th of September it was confirmed he was playing the role of the Dothraki Kovarro, a new character not in the books. He joined the cast as a guest star in the second season.
However he has admitted that before the audition for this career-changing role he'd never actually watched a single episode. "Where I live is a listed building, so I'm not allowed a Sky dish," he laughs. "I'd heard about it and thought I probably needed to watch it, then I got an email from my agent to say they had an audition. I went round to my friend's house, thinking I'd just watch the first hour-long episode of season one to get an idea of what it was like, but I ended up there until 4am! I couldn't stop watching it, every single episode ends with a cliff-hanger and I was hooked. I didn’t get any sleep at all that night and my audition was the next day. I was so tired when I got there, but it couldn't have gone any better. And it paid off – I got the job." Steven has also appeared in the TV series 'Death in Paradise' (2014) and the short drama 'To Love' (2018) alongside Lisa Gorgin about, How do you say goodbye to love? Is it better to have loved and lost? And how do we deal with the pain?
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