Adam Paul Harvey (born 7 July 1984) is an English actor.

Early life

Harvey was born in

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, Buckinghamshire, the son of Andrea (née Foster) and Gordon Harvey, an engineer. He attended Sir William Ramsay School in

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, High Wycombe and in 1998 enrolled at JPA School of Drama and Dance, after which he began auditioning.

Career

His first professional role was in a commercial advertising the

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. His first regular television role was in

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's short-lived soap opera '' Night and Day'', in which he played Tom Brake. Other regular roles were Ralph Henshaw in '' Bedtime'' in 2002 (alongside

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), Russell in

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's '' Girls in Love'' (2003–05) and Nathan Boothe in four series of ITV1's '' Where the Heart Is''. He played the lead in

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's docudrama ''Dealing with Disasters'' (about London Nail Bomber

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). He has acted in a number of films, including ''My Brother Tom'' (2001), ''

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'' (2007), the short ''96 Ways to Say I Love You'' (2014) and ''Mad to Be Normal'' (formerly entitled ''Metanoia'', 2017), a biopic of

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, alongside a cast including

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, Gabriel Byrne, David Bamber and Michael Gambon. He appeared in ''You, Me and Him'', a comedy and ''This Weekend Will Change Your Life'', a thriller, in 2018, and is due to appear in ''End of Term'', a horror film, although as of September 2019, no release date has been announced. In November 2013, he appeared in ''The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot'', part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of ''Doctor Who''. In November 2014, he had a role in ''Casualty (TV series), Casualty''. He has also appeared in two separate episodes of ''Doctors (2000 TV series), Doctors'', playing different characters, firstly in November 2014 and, more recently, in September 2019.

Filmography

Personal life

He had a relationship with his ''Where the Heart Is'' co-star Georgia Tennant, who played his on-screen girlfriend, Alice Harding. They ended the relationship in 2006, but remain good friends. He has a sister and three half-brothers, and is, as are they, first cousin, once removed of Peter Darvill-Evans as well as his younger brother, the composer Mark Darvill-Evans. He is related on his father's side to Edward Stone (clergyman), Edward Stone, an eighteenth-century clergyman who discovered the active ingredient in Aspirin, as well as Irene Kathleen Stiles (1901–1964), who wrote romantic fiction under the pen name of Romilly Brent.

References

External links

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Agent's biography of Adam Paul Harvey
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