Background
Edge was born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England.
Edge was born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England.
He attended Stafford College and the University of Salford.
He is most famous for his work on Starlings, Phoenix Nights, The Cup, The Visit, Peep Show and the satirical magazine show Star Stories. He began his career in 1997 and from then until 2004 worked as a Stand-up comedian. From March–November 2004 Steve, Paddy McGuinness, Archie Kelly and Janice Connolly toured a live stand-up show "Jumping on the Bandwagon" in reference to the success of Phoenix Nights.
The final show of the tour and the last time he did stand-up was at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool.
Edge is probably most famous playing Alan one half of double-act Les-Alanous with Les played by Toby Foster in Peter Kay"s Phoenix Nights and he"s made other apperences in That Peter Kay Thing and Max and Paddy"s Road To Nowhere. Steve was a programme associate/writer on 8 out of 10 Cats from 2007-2011 He was script editor the BBC2 comedy "The Cup" in which he also starred as the lead, Terry McConnell.
In 2009 He wrote the BBC1 show Walk on the Wild Side along with Jason Manford as well as adding the voices to the show. Most notably the Marmot repeatedly shouting "Alan".
In 2009 he wrote and narrated BBC3"s "Almost Famous III" and returned in 2010 with the much revered sequel "Almost Famous IV".
In 2002 he starred in a series of improvised adverts directed by Graham Linehan, for the now defunct Independent Television sport Channel He starred as a hapless undertaker in the Elbow promo for the song "Not a Job" Steve is the creator and co-writer of the series Starlings along with Matt King on Sky1.