Nick Moran (born Nicholas James Moran on 23 December 1969), is a British actor, writer, and producer. He is probably best known for his role in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, in which he played Eddy the card sharp.
Moran first hit the big screen in 1990 alongside Roger Daltrey and Chesney Hawkes, in Buddy's Song (1990). He then went on to star with Britpack waifs Hans Matheson and Samantha Morton in a Coky Giedroyc short, The Future Lasts a Long Time (1996). In Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), he shared the screen with Jason Statham, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Vinnie Jones and British rocker Sting, the last of whom played the role of his father, JD. Moran played a card shark who attempts to increase the savings of himself and his three friends by investing their money in a high-stakes poker bet against a local mobster, Harry "The Hatchet" Lonsdale. All of the money is lost due to Harry's cheating, and the group ends up in debt.
At the London premiere of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Moran walked down the red carpet with Sting. "All the photographers wanted pictures of Sting and of Dustin Hoffman, who was there with Sting and I. Nobody knew who I was, so they literally manhandled me to get to the real stars," he recalled. When one photographer got a little too physical and verbally abusive, Moran punched him out. "I gave him four stitches and put him unconscious," he says. Moran was charged with assault and ended up paying a $400 fine. "That wasn't the worst that happened. I had been hired to shoot a movie in Toronto and had been denied permission to enter the country because I had an old drunk driving conviction. The Canadian consulate told me no one can enter the country with a criminal record." Moran spent weeks getting a waiver for his conviction. He finally received it and was able to film his Canadian movie.
Moran co-starred with John Hurt in New Blood (1999), and also starred with Joseph Fiennes, Sadie Frost and Tara Fitzgerald in Rancid Aluminium (2000). In 2001, he played the role of Aramis in The Musketeer, a film loosely based on Alexandre Dumas, père's classic novel, The Three Musketeers. The film co-starred Catherine Deneuve, Tim Roth, Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, and Bill Treacher, with Justin Chambers in the role of D'Artagnan.
Moran has also had a number of stage appearances; his first job was understudying the lead in Blood Brothers in London's West End. He was in the original cast of Nick Grosso's Real Classy Affair at the Royal Court Theatre. Subsequent appearances include Paul Webb's Four Nights in Knaresborough , Look Back in Anger both in 2001, Alfie in 2003, and The Countess in 2005.
Moran co-wrote the play Telstar with James Hicks. It is a dramatisation of the biography of Joe Meek, one of Englands early independent record producers, who had a massive worldwide hit with The Tornados' 1962 "Telstar" single.
The play was directed by Paul Jepson and was staged in the New Ambassadors Theatre, London, 21 June - 12 September 2005. This was the play's West End debut after a successful small-scale National Tour that featured stars such as Linda Robson, Adam Rickitt and Con O'Neill.
A screen adaptation of the play will be released in 2008. Con O'Neill reprises his stage role as Meek; Kevin Spacey plays his financier, Major Banks.
Moran was engaged to actress/model Sienna Guillory in July 1997 - they parted in 2000.
He has two brothers, Simon and Richard. Both work in the city of London in the IT Sector. Simon is a network support analyst specialising in Cisco equipment and sings and plays guitar in London band The Germans. Richard is a UNIX administrator for a well-known German bank.
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