Born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, Steve Coogan entertained his family from an early age. He had first break on
Spitting Image
, won a Perrier Award as a young stand-up, and it was while working with Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber on
On The Hour
and
The Day Today,
that Alan Partridge emerged. Coogan, once a tabloid fixture, now runs his own production company Baby Cow, has a raft of films to his name (from
24 Hour Party People
to
Alpha Papa
), six Baftas and seven Comedy Awards. He has found huge success with
The Trip
Philomena
, the latter bringing him Oscar nominations for producing and co-writing. Here he lifts the lid on the real Steve Coogan, writing with distinctive humor and unexpected candor about his life and career.