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Daniel Ryan (born 1968 as Daniel O'Brien) is an English actor and writer. He is known for starring as Darren Alexander in the
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comedy
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Linda Green
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'',
Andrew Gilligan
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in ''
The Government Inspector
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'', Andy Coulson in ''
Steel River Blues'' and Kenny Reed in ''
The Whistleblowers
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''. His stage credits include ''
Macbeth'', ''
A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and ''
Richard III''.
Early life
Ryan was born in
Culcheth
Culcheth is a village in the Borough of Warrington, ceremonial county of Cheshire and historic county of Lancashire, England, six miles (10 km) north-east of Warrington town centre; it is the principal settlement in Culcheth and Glazebury ci ...
near
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,
Cheshire to parents who owned a
bingo
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hall. He and his younger brother attended
Culcheth High School. Despite playing in a school band called Darker Than Shark he was enthused by a
RADA
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Se ...
-educated drama teacher. He attended the Lancashire Schools Arts Workshop in
North Wales
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, before being accepted into
LAMDA
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.
Career
On graduation, he joined the
Royal Shakespeare Company on an 18-month contract. In 1995 he played a paralysed man in a
Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives advert. Ten years after graduation, he played the part of Bottom in ''
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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'' at RSC in 1999/2000. He has also starred in both ''Fallout'' and ''Posh'' at the
Royal Court Theatre
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, and was in ''Mammals'' at the BushTheatre and later on tour. In 2008 he appeared in ''
Gethsemane
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'', a new play by
David Hare at the
National Theatre.
Ryan played Andy in the 2001
ITV drama ''
Bob & Rose''. In December 2007, he appeared in the Series 17 episode of ''
Heartbeat'' called "
Touch and Go", in which he played Max Philpott who murdered long running character PC Phil Bellamy. He appeared on the Teen Drama ''
Skins'' as the father of the third generation character Rich Hardbeck in 2011 and 2012. He took over the role of Harry (Sandy's husband, previously played by
David Michaels David Michaels may refer to:
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) in the special reunion episodes of BBC sitcom ''
As Time Goes By'' alongside
Judi Dench
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and
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. Ryan also appeared in the 2008 ''
Doctor Who'' episode "
Midnight". He played Felix Sansome in “Wild Justice”, S5:E2 of ''
Lewis
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'', which aired April 2011. In 2012, he appeared as antagonist Barry Flint in The Girl Who Lived, the fourth episode of the ninth season of
New Tricks
''New Tricks'' is a British television police procedural
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.
In 2014, he appeared in ''
Salting the Battlefield
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'' as Bill Catcheside. He is also known for playing the role of Dan in the
Sky Living
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comedy-drama ''
Mount Pleasant'' since 2011. In 2015 he appeared as Steve Baker in S7:E1 of ''
Doc Martin
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'', and as Colonel Anthony Forbes-Leith in the BBC TV series ''
Father Brown
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'' episode 3.9 "The Truth in the Wine". He has played Welsh butcher Bryn Brindsley in the
ITV war-time drama ''
Home Fires'' from 2015. In 2018 he starred in the ITV mini-series ''
Innocent
Innocence is a lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, or wrongdoing. In a legal context, innocence is to the lack of legal guilt of an individual, with respect to a crime. In other contexts, it is a lack of experience.
In relation ...
'', as the lead character's brother, Phil Collins. In February 2019 he played Gerald Baynes in ''
Death in Paradise'' S8.E8. Also in February he appeared as Alec Sidden in ''The Seagull'', S9:E4 of ''
Vera'', and in April 2019 as
Detective Inspector
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Australia
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Anthony ‘Tony’ Manning in ''
The Bay''.
In 2022 he played Gary in ''
Middle'' at the
National Theatre.
References
Ginger and Nuts Radio Show, January 2022
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External links
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1968 births
Living people
People from Culcheth
Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Royal Shakespeare Company members
English male stage actors
English male Shakespearean actors
English male television actors
British male dramatists and playwrights
Male actors from Lancashire