Comedy writing, screen acting and directing
Stephen Merchant’s career spans comedy writing, performance, directing and production. With Ricky Gervais he co-created The Office and Extras; his United Agents record also credits their work on Life’s Too Short and Cemetery Junction. The same record distinguishes his acting parts from projects he wrote or produced, so this page does not present every title as an on-screen appearance.
Merchant played the agent in Extras and later created, co-wrote and starred in HBO’s Hello Ladies. His representative lists film roles in Logan and Jojo Rabbit and his television portrayal of Stephen Port in Four Lives. It also records the later Bristol-set The Outlaws, in which he acted as Greg while taking several creative roles behind the camera. These are selected professional credits, not a complete filmography.
His career did not begin with television. In a first-person Warwick student-paper interview, Merchant recalls campus radio, an Edinburgh sketch show and stand-up after university as early steps in writing and performing comedy.