Dan Stevens Biography

Fast Facts

• Adopted at birth by middle-class teachers
• Knew he wanted to become an actor while in primary school
• Honed his acting chops with Britain's National Youth Theatre
• Pursued stand-up comedy for a time during his college years
• Joined the amateur theatrical Footlights Dramatic Club while at Cambridge
• Discovered by British theatrical-film director Peter Hall, who spotted him in a Footlights production of Macbeth opposite Hall's daughter Rebecca
• Editor-at-large for the Junket, an online quarterly magazine
• Writes a column for the Sunday Telegraph (a British newspaper)