Steve Toussaint is best known for "It's a Sin," "Small Axe" and "Deep Water, but after 2022, chances are, you'll know him as Lord Corlys Velaryon from "House of the Dragon." As a major character in the series, Toussaint is sure to become a big name in Hollywood. But there was a time when Toussaint had no plans to join the industry at all.
"I grew up in SE London: New Cross/Deptford, that sort of area," he explained to Fabric Magazine. "And sometimes people would go, 'Haha, you're funny, you should be an actor,' but I didn't know anybody who was an actor from my neighborhood, so it was never something that I thought was within my reach." Although Toussaint didn't have any ambitions to pursue acting professionally, he did end up playing Wole Soyinka in a university play. "But I still didn't think that acting was something that people from Deptford did," he admitted. "So, when I finished university I started temping, working in banks." Luckily, Toussaint got some inspiration from an unlikely source — Gary Oldman. Toussaint happened to see him in "Prick Up Your Ears" and he suddenly realized, as he put it, "Oh my God, people like me can be actors."
