Steve Varnom
Biography
Steve Varnom is a UK-based actor, screenwriter and film-maker. He trained at LAMDA. He will soon be seen as King Custennin, a series regular in the upcoming historical fantasy TV show "The Pendragon Cycle." (Bonfire Legend/The Daily Wire.) He played Eddie Rubinski in the movie "The Sweeter Side of Life," a romantic comedy directed by Michael Damian for The Hallmark Channel - and Ben Goeser in "Obsession: Dark Desires," a true life drama for Discovery I.D. Other television and film work includes "Eastenders", "Coronation Street", "Holby City", "Level Up", "God The Father", "The Storyteller", "London's Burning", "Down to Earth", "The Bill", "Dalziel and Pascoe", "Sugar Rush" and "Doctors". He also wrote, directed and starred in the feature film "It's Been Real", and has a supporting role in "Heroes and Villains" and "Level Up". He starred in "Broadside", a costume drama for American television, in which he played General George Monck, directed by the award winning David Hickman. Steve has had a long and successful career in the theatre, playing leading roles in London's West End and working with renowned directors at the Royal Shakespeare Company, RUG, The Manchester Royal Exchange and The New Vic. His company, King Ziggy Films is developing several feature film projects. - IMDb mini biography by: Steve Varnom
Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles
Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes • as Douglas Padgett
In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.
Drama Series - 2026, 16 episodes • as Custennin
Merlin, the immortal son of the bard Taliesin and Atlantean Princess Charis, is followed through his tragic upbringing, descent into madness, and shocking disappearance, leading to the legend that surrounds him. Set before King Arthur's birth, Merlin, assumed dead or a myth, reemerges in sub-Roman Britain to unite the fractured kingdoms under threat from Saxon invaders.
Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes • as Patient in Corridor
tlc is a darkly surreal farce-like sitcom created and written by Fintan Coyle, set in a fictional NHS hospital called South Middlesex where coffee is traded like drugs and pretty much everyone has a personality complex. Dr Laurence Flynn finds himself thrown in at the deep end when he gets his first job after leaving Medical School (where he failed his finals). Always the butt of jokes by other staff (being called on to revive dead people)he has to cope not only with the patients but mad colleagues too – an ex surgeon now the hospital chaplain and a German theatre assistant with a masochistic kink. The show never confirms what 'tlc' stands for, although it's presumed to be a sarcastic reference to the widely used abbreviation for 'tender loving care', but could equally refer to the alternative yet related abbreviation 'total lack of concern'.
Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes • as Minotaur
A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Brigham Thorne
Seeking justice for her family, an outlaw woman and her lover rob the rich to give to the poor across the Dakota badlands, targeting a God-fearing banker while a ragtag posse of holy idiots tries (and mostly fails) to bring them down.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Eddie Rubinski
Pampered Manhattan housewife Desiree Harper has it all. That is until her husband unexpectedly dumps her for his acupuncturist. Faced with an airtight prenup, Desiree reluctantly lands a job making cupcakes at her father's bakery in Flemington, NJ. She soon discovers there's more to life than 5th Avenue and true love can be even sweeter in small town America.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Gamers enter virtual reality video game contest for money only to realize things are not the way they seem.
Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Businessman
Comedy following the exploits of four 20-something London flatmates who devise a wild money making scheme. They cater to clients who suspect the infidelity of their loved ones, by hiring phoney male and female suitors to deliver pick-up lines and 'test' the faithfulness of the partners, while the men secretly videotape the come-ons.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Monck/Albermarle
Throughout the 17th century, the Dutch and English fought desperate wars over which country would dominate world trade for the next two centuries. They waged massive sea battles in Europe and embarked on violent raids in Asia, Africa and North America.