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Stephen Boxer was educated at New College School in Oxford, where he was a chorister,¹ and Magdalen College School, Oxford.²

He is perhaps best known for appearing as Joe Fenton in the BBC One daytime soap opera Doctors.³ He took a break from the show in mid-2008 to appear as Petruchio in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Taming of the Shrew, returning to soap for a few episodes in November 2010.⁴ For his portrayal of Joe, Boxer was nominated for the British Soap Award for Best Actor in 2007 and 2008.⁵⁶

He appeared in Zigger Zagger in 1967 with the National Youth Theatre.

Boxer has starred in a number of detective dramas,⁷ most notably in the second, third and fourth installments of Prime Suspect.⁸ On children's television, he was co-presenter of Get Up And Go! with Beryl Reid and its successor programme Mooncat and Co, where he was joined variously by the likes of Pat Coombs, Pam Ayres, Patsy Rowlands and Wilf Lunn. He had a featured role in the BBC docudrama A Royal Scandal.⁹ He played Mr Smith in the 2005 adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays and Lord Melville in Garrow's Law. He has also featured in episodes of Casualty,¹⁰ Luther,¹¹ Midsomer Murders,¹² Father Brown¹³, The Honourable Woman¹⁴ and Humans.¹⁵¹⁶

In 2012, Boxer appeared as Francisco de Aguiar y Seijas in the RSC production of Helen Edmundson's The Heresy of Love.¹⁷ From May to October 2013, he played the title role in the RSC production of Titus Andronicus.¹⁸ From January to July 2014, Boxer played the role of Gloucester in William Shakespeare's King Lear.¹⁹²⁰ Between October 2016 to March 2017, he worked with From Software to voice the character and boss enemy Slave Knight Gael in the video game Dark Souls III, specifically its DLC Ashes of Ariandel and The Ringed City. He recently played Captain Rivers in the stage adaptation of Pat Barker's Booker-prize nominated novel Regeneration.²¹

In 2018, Boxer played The Chairman in the Netflix series finale of Sense8. In the 4th season of the historical drama series The Crown Boxer played Denis Thatcher alongside Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher.²²

In 2022, Boxer voiced Sage Gowry in Elden Ring²³

In 2023, Boxer voiced Withers in the video game Baldur's Gate 3.²⁴

Filmography

Film

Television

Video Games

External links

• Stephen Boxer at IMDb

References

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2. "OW Stephen Boxer (1967) on acting during 2020". Retrieved 9 June 2022. https://www.mcsoxford.org/ows/ow-news/ow-stephen-boxer-1967-on-acting-during-2020/ ↩

3. Stephen Boxers entry on the BBC Doctors sub-site https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/doctors/actors/stephen_boxer_person_page.shtml ↩

4. Royal Shakespeare Company: Cast list, accessed 2008-04-29. http://www.rsc.org.uk/WhatsOn/6351.aspx ↩

5. Green, Kris (27 May 2007). "The British Soap Awards 2007: The Winners". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2012. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/news/a58280/the-british-soap-awards-2007-the-winners.html ↩

6. Hilton, Beth; Green, Kris (4 May 2008). "The British Soap Awards 2008: The Winners". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2012. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/news/a94815/the-british-soap-awards-2008-the-winners.html ↩

7. British Film Institute https://web.archive.org/web/20120724141746/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f86b5fc ↩

8. Prime Suspect Character-list on TV.com http://www.tv.com/shows/prime-suspect/cast/ ↩

9. "A Royal Scandal (TV Movie 1997)". IMDB. Retrieved 22 August 2015. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117520/ ↩

10. "Casualty 'Love of a good man', Series 24 Episode 30". BBC Website. Retrieved 22 August 2015. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rzrtw ↩

11. "Luther clip from Series 2, Episode 4". BBC Website. Retrieved 22 August 2015. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hysmy ↩

12. "Midsomer Rhapsody". Midsomermurders.org. Retrieved 22 August 2015. http://www.midsomermurders.org/rhapsody.htm ↩

13. "Father Brown, The Face of Death". BBC Website. Retrieved 22 August 2015. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q8kd0 ↩

14. "Stellar casting announced for Hugo Blick's The Honourable Woman". BBC Website. Retrieved 29 July 2013. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/the-honourable-woman.html ↩

15. "Humans - Series 1 Episode 5". Radio Times. Retrieved 29 June 2015. http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/dpmrs6/humans--series-1---episode-5 ↩

16. Internet Movie Database entry for Stephen Boxer https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101540/ ↩

17. "The Heresy of Love | by Helen Edmundson | Royal Shakespeare Company". https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-heresy-of-love ↩

18. "Titus Andronicus – review". The Guardian. 24 May 2013. Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/may/24/titus-andronicus-review ↩

19. Review of King Lear in The Express http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/theatre/455900/Simon-Russell-Beale-in-King-Lear-at-the-National-Theatre-review ↩

20. 'Talking Lear Pt.2' on The National Theatre site http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover/platforms/talking-lear-part-2-gloucester-edmund-edgar ↩

21. Regeneration synopsis on Everyman Theatre Site http://www.everymantheatre.org.uk/m-shows/regeneration/ ↩

22. "OW Stephen Boxer (1967) on acting during 2020". Retrieved 9 June 2022. https://www.mcsoxford.org/ows/ow-news/ow-stephen-boxer-1967-on-acting-during-2020/ ↩

23. "Elden Ring (Video Game 2022)". IMDb. Retrieved 5 January 2024. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10562854/fullcredits ↩

24. "Baldur's Gate III (Video Game 2023)". IMDb. Retrieved 12 November 2023. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13258344/fullcredits ↩