‘Nothing is too big to fail’: Steve Toussaint on starring in the Game of Thrones prequel

For years, Steve Toussaint has carved out a niche as one of television’s most reliably anonymous character actors. Since his first major TV role, a bit-part in the mid-90s police drama Backup, he has appeared in pretty much everything going. He was in The Bill. He was in Casualty. Doctor Who. Midsomer Murders. Death in Paradise. Line of Duty. It’s a Sin.

To see Toussaint’s face appear on screen is to go: “Oh hey, that guy,” safe in the knowledge that you’re in good hands. And yet the man himself is a mystery. He has fewer than 2,000 Twitter followers. His Wikipedia entry lists only his year of birth and his professional output. In an age when everyone knows everything about everyone, he’s a complete enigma.

But that might be about to change. This week sees the launch of , HBO’s long-awaited Game of Thrones prequel. It will, one suspects, very quickly become the biggest show on television. – it’s hard to shake the feeling that this will be the last interview that Steve Toussaint will ever give with his civilian status intact.