Steven Brand

born: 26th June

Dundee, Scotland, UK
height: 5′11″ (1,80 m)
hair / eyes: brown / blue
parents: Irene (who’s a design draughtswoman) and Arthur
siblings: His brother works with computers, his younger sister is in construction business.

In 2002, having worked extensively in theatre, film and television in the UK, Steven Brand was brought over to the US to star in Universal’s ‘The Scorpion King’ as Memnon, evil warlord and arch nemesis of Mathayus, played by The Rock. Following the success of his debut movie in the US, Steven’s work has included the HBO series ‘The Mind of the Married Man’, Stephen King’s ‘Diary of Ellen Rimbauer’, CSI and more recently starring in the movies ‘Treasure Raiders’ (2006) with David Carradine, ‘Say It In Russian’ (2006) with Faye Dunnaway and ‘XII’ (2007).
Although native to Dundee, Scotland, Steven and his family moved to East Africa when he was young, where they lived for nine years in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. He experienced film for the first time in a drive-in cinema in Kenya.
Steven started acting relatively late, having worked in publishing for a few years before switching careers. However, once he had made the decision, things happened very quickly. He had to leave drama school early to take his first work starring opposite Catherine Zeta Jones in the enormously popular British TV series ‘The Darling Buds of May’. He spent the next few years working consistently in British theatre and television before he was invited to Los Angeles to screen test for The Scorpion King.
Trivia

* Cricket
When in London Steven occasionally plays cricket for a local cricket club called ‘The Twelve Angry Men’.
* Current location
Steven has homes in London and Los Angeles, but he spends most time living in California.
* Former jobs
In the early 80’s Steven was working for a few months as freelancer for a large UK magazine that was publishing ‘Mobile Communication International’ (a monthly communications industry magazin), but he found out that he couldn’t enjoy doing a regular 8-hours-a-day-5-days-a-week-job and finally concentrated on his acting career.
* Hobbies / interests
Besides cricket Steven’s doing some photography as well as writing and if you should ever visit California, take a look around the L.A. beach, maybe you can see him surfing.
* James Bond
After James Bond performer Pierce Brosnan retired, Steven was considered for the job as new ‘007′ for ‘Casino Royale’ in 2005, but – as everyone might know – they’ve chosen Daniel Craig.
* Kids
We have no information about kids.
* Marital status / partner
Some pages do still list Jacquie O’Sullivan (singer of 80’s girl-band Bananarama) for his partner or even wife, that’s wrong!
* Smoking
He’s smoking in some movies such as ‘The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer’ (cigar), ‘Stone & Ed’ (in the scene where he’s doing the Sheriff) and even in ‘Treasure Raiders’ (although it needs a very close look to see that!) as well as in ‘Mistresses’. You can also see him holding a cigarette in a picture that was taken at the Antaeus Theater.
* Stage appearances
While exploring Europe after his college graduation Steven did short plays and mime shows and played on the streets of Paris before he went back to London to do more fringe theater. He also played in a French play called ‘The Lie’ before he took his first TV role opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in ‘The Darling Buds of May’.

From October to December 2007 Steven performed in 2 Noël Coward plays at the Antaeus Theater Company in Los Angeles.
* Year of birth
Well, obviously some people have fun in changing Steven’s year of birth on Wikipedia and imdb over and over again. We think: age doesn’t matter!
* More…
Steven hates snakes (he admitted that in an interview with zap2it in April 2002 after he’d done Scorpion King. When being asked: ‘Were you scared of the cobras?’ his answer was: ‘Yeah. Absolutely terrified. I hate snakes. I hate them!’) You can read the complete interview here.

The German voice of ‘Memnon’ is spoken by Frank Glaubrecht who’s also doing the synchronisation for Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner and Al Pacino. Voice sample (German) Frank Glaubrecht (from ‘Goldeneye’).