FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY (2019) About The Director and Cast
Stephen Merchant, Florence Pugh, Lena Headey, and Vince Vaughn
STEPHEN MERCHANT (Writer, Director, Producer), FLORENCE PUGH (Paige), LENA HEADEY (Julia), and VINCE VAUGHN (Hutch)
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STEPHEN MERCHANT (Writer, Director, Producer) is an Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning actor, comedian, writer, director and producer and one of the most versatile talents in television and film.
Merchant most recently appeared in the crime thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web opposite Claire Foy and has wrapped production on the war satire film Jojo Rabbit opposite Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson.
In 2017 Merchant was widely lauded for his performance as the mutant Caliban in the international blockbuster movie Logan, alongside Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Prior to that Merchant was star, co-creator, co-writer and director of HBO's Hello Ladies, a sitcom based on his live stand-up show of the same name. The series ended with a feature-length HBO special and received two nominations at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Merchant first shot to prominence as co-creator (alongside Ricky Gervais) of BBC's The Office and Extras, both of which were critically acclaimed, earning multiple comedy series awards, including three BAFTA Awards, two British Comedy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Peabody Award. Additionally, Merchant received a British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor for his role in Extras and, in 2004, accepted their Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award alongside Gervais.
Merchant also served as an executive producer on the long-running U.S. adaptation of The Office, which received five Primetime Emmy Awards and 42 nominations during its run on NBC.
He and Gervais appeared alongside Karl Pilkington in An Idiot Abroad, a highly successful live-action travelogue series which Merchant also co-produced. Merchant and Gervais both appeared in Life's Too Short, a pseudo-documentary on BBC/HBO, which they jointly wrote and directed, and in 2010, the two directed their first feature film, a 1970s-set comedy-drama titled Cemetery Junction. Merchant's additional film credits and cameos include Table 19, I Give It A Year, Hall Pass, Tooth Fairy and Hot Fuzz.
Merchant continues to serve as executive producer on Paramount Network's Emmy-nominated hit series Lip Sync Battle and Adult Swim's surreal comedy Dream Corp, LLC.
He began his career as a stand-up comedian in the UK in 1997 and shortly thereafter became co-host of XFM London's The Ricky Gervais Show. In 2005, the program was reformatted as a weekly podcast that went on to be consistently ranked as number one in the world and was certified as the most downloaded podcast of all time by the Guinness Book of World Records. The program was later adapted into an animated version of the same name for HBO and Channel 4.
Aside from his on-screen work, Merchant has also travelled the globe as a stand-up comedian. He toured the U.S., UK, Australia, and New Zealand with his stand-up show, Stephen Merchant Live: Hello Ladies.
He currently splits his time between Los Angeles and London.
British actress FLORENCE PUGH (Paige) made her mark with her starring role as Katherine Lester in Roadside's Lady Macbeth. Directed by William Oldroyd, the film follows Katherine, who has been sold into marriage, as she discovers an unstoppable desire when she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate. The film was named one of 2017's Top 10 Independent Films by the National Board of Review and won Best British Independent Film at the 2017 British Independent Film Awards. Pugh won Best Actress at the 2017 British Film Awards and received the Malone Souliers Award for Breakthrough of the Year at the 2017 Evening Standard British Film Awards.
Pugh recently wrapped production on Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women, in which Pugh portrays Amy March. She stars alongside Emma Watson, Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern and Timothee Chalamet. Also upcoming is A24's untitled Ari Aster film (Hereditary), alongside Will Poulter and Jack Reynor.
Pugh was recently seen on AMC's The Little Drummer Girl, which debuted in October 2018 on BBC in the UK and November 2018 in the U.S. Based upon the John le Carre bestseller of the same name, the six-part drama is set in the 1970s, as a young, brilliant actress prepares for her ultimate role in the theater of the real, against the backdrop of rising tensions in the Middle East. Park Chan-Wook directs and Alexander Skarsgard and Michael Shannon also star.
Pugh has a leading role in director's David McKenzie's Outlaw King, which premiered on Netflix on November 9th. Outlaw King tells the story of Robert The Bruce, the king who led his country to freedom from the oppressive rule of England during the First War of Scottish Independence. The film stars Chris Pine and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Pugh starred in ITV's critical hit Marcella, an eight-part crime-thriller from the creators of the Scandinavian hit series The Bridge; the action film The Commuter, opposite Liam Neeson; and as Cordelia, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, in the BBC/Amazon television movie King Lear.
She made her stunning debut in Carol Morley's The Falling, which earned Pugh a Best Young Performer nomination at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards.
LENA HEADEY (Julia) is best known for her ongoing portrayal of Cersei Lannister in HBO's epic television series Game of Thrones, for which she has been a multiple nominee for Golden Globes and Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Headey will soon appear in the UK immigration drama The Flood, alongside Iain Glen. Recent film credits include the adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Zipper, Low Down, The Purge, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, The Adventurer: The Curse of The Midas Box, Dredd, and The Brothers Grimm. She also reprised her role as Queen Gorgo in 300: Rise of An Empire, the second chapter in the 300 film phenomenon.
Headey played the title role in the Fox television series The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which continues the saga of The Terminator films, with Headey taking over the part made famous by Linda Hamilton.
Headey made her feature film debut in 1992's Waterland, playing the younger version of the wife of Jeremy Irons' character. She was also seen that year in the BBC television movie
The Summer House. In 1993, Headey appeared in the period drama Century and the award-winning Merchant-Ivory film The Remains of the Day.
VINCE VAUGHN (Hutch) has become one of Hollywood's most highly acclaimed triple threats - as an actor, producer and screenwriter. A Chicago native, Vaughn first caught the attention of critics and audiences for his performance in Doug Liman's independent sleeper hit and cult classic Swingers. Most recently, Vaughn starred in S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99, which received critical acclaim worldwide, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 92%. He has reteamed with Zahler on Dragged Across Concrete, alongside Mel Gibson, which Lionsgate will distribute. In 2016, Vaughn starred in Gibson's WW II drama Hacksaw Ridge, which was nominated for six Academy Awards and three Golden Globes.
Vaughn recently wrapped production on Against All Enemies, as FBI agent Carl Kowalski, alongside Kristen Stewart, Anthony Mackie and Jack O'Connell. The story centers on attempts by the FBI to discredit actress Jean Seberg through its Cointelpro program, in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party.
Vaughn's production company, Wild West Picture Show (WWPS), is heading into its sixth season of the Audience Network favorite Undeniable, a ten-episode series with new host Dan Patrick, which features one-on-one, in-depth interviews with various sports legends. Additional WWPS credits include ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary on the '85 Chicago Bears football team, which Vaughn narrated, as well as Audience Network's Fear(less) with Tim Ferriss, and the TBS original sitcom Sullivan & Son. WWPS' animated show F is for Family has just been renewed for its third season on Netflix, and Vaughn will voice a new character named Colonel Chet Stevenson. DirecTV is partnering with WWPS on the film Give Us This Day, which tells the story of a year in the lives of three police officers and three residents living in East St. Louis, the city with the highest homicide rate in the United States.
Vaughn's film credits also include Rudy, Old School, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Wedding Crashers, The Break Up, Into the Wild, Couples Retreat, and The Internship.
