Steve Huison
One part fixed Steve Huison in British film memory: Lomper, the smallest and least likely of the six laid-off Sheffield men who decide to strip in The Full Monty. It is not a large role, and it is the one people quote back at him.
The rest of the work is television, mostly British and deliberately unshowy. He was Steve Greengrass in Victoria Wood's dinnerladies, a sitcom built out of overlapping canteen chatter where the joke usually lives in the timing rather than the line, and he played Eddie Windass in Coronation Street. Elsewhere he has filled in the grim margins of ITV and BBC drama, from Wire in the Blood to The Street, with occasional film work either side of the one everybody knows.
In 2023 he came back as Lomper for the television continuation of The Full Monty, which is rarer than it sounds: most revivals of a beloved ensemble quietly recast the quiet one. He is a useful reminder that a career can be built on being completely believable as an ordinary man in a bad week.
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Where to start with Steve Huison
The Full Monty is unavoidable and deserves to be. It remains one of the few comedies about unemployment that is funny about the humiliation as well as the plan, and it is worth watching how little Huison does with Lomper against how much of the film's warmth ends up attached to him.
Then The Full Monty, which picks the group up decades later and gives Lomper considerably more to carry than the film ever did. For the television actor rather than the film one, dinnerladies is the pleasure, with Victoria Wood's dialogue running at a speed most sitcoms would not attempt, and The Street shows him in serious mode. When Saturday Comes is a lesser film with a real Sheffield texture, worth a look if the setting appealed to you more than the joke did.