Jonathan Kerrigan (born 14 October 1972) is an English actor well known for various leading roles on TV including ''
In The Club'', ''
Casualty
Casualty may refer to:
*Casualty (person), a person who is killed or rendered unfit for service in a war or natural disaster
**Civilian casualty, a non-combatant killed or injured in warfare
* The emergency department of a hospital, also known as ...
'', ''
Heartbeat'', ''Merseybeat, The Five'' and ''Reach For The Moon''. Films include ''
Diana'', ''FLiM'',
''The Somnambulists'' ,''The Best Possible Taste'' and ''The Santa Incident''. He wrote and composed and starred in the short film, ''Fellow Creatures'' which has had some success in the festival circuit. He is also a musician and has composed for both television and film.
Career
He had his screen debut in the
Chemical Brothers
The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo formed by Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons in Manchester in 1989. They were pioneers (along with the Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, the Crystal Method, and other acts) in bringing the big beat genre ...
music video, "Life Is Sweet".
In ''Peak Practice'' he played climber Ewan Harvey.
From 1996 to 1999 he played a
Project 2000 nurse, Sam Colloby, in BBC medical drama ''
Casualty
Casualty may refer to:
*Casualty (person), a person who is killed or rendered unfit for service in a war or natural disaster
**Civilian casualty, a non-combatant killed or injured in warfare
* The emergency department of a hospital, also known as ...
''.
In 2001, as well as starring in ''
Merseybeat'' as Police Constable Steve Traynor, Kerrigan also composed the theme tune.
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On 5 September 2004, Kerrigan made his first appearance as police constable Rob Walker in the British popular and long-running primetime television drama series ''
Heartbeat'', set in the 1960s in the
North Riding of Yorkshire. Rob was an extremely popular character and was always in the thick of the action, including having a relationship with Helen Trent (played by
Sophie Ward
Sophie Anna Ward (born 1964) is an English stage and screen actress, and a writer of non-fiction and fiction. As an actress, she played Elizabeth Hardy, the female lead in Barry Levinson's '' Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985), and in other feat ...
) who was separated but still married at the time. They went on to get married but Helen was tragically killed in an explosion in the Police House, which left Rob devastated. In April 2007, Kerrigan announced his decision to quit his role as PC Rob Walker in ''Heartbeat''. Scottish actor
Joseph McFadden Joseph McFadden may refer to:
*Joe McFadden
Joseph McFadden (born 9 October 1975) is a Scottish actor best known for his roles in ''The Crow Road,'' '' Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll, Heartbeat'' and '' Holby City.'' McFadden won the 2017 series o ...
replaced him as village constable Joe Mason in the following series of the show. Kerrigan's departure marked the end of another chapter in the series history, as the viewers of the show saw PC Rob Walker ride off on his motorcycle into the sunset at the end of Series 16.
In May 2010, he appeared in episode 21 of the seventh series of the US crime drama ''
NCIS'' playing the character Rex Carhartt.
In 2012, he appeared in a
Richard Jobson film called ''The Somnambulists'' about British servicemen and women reflecting on the action they saw in
Basra
Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is hand ...
during the
Iraq War
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.
He composed some of the original music for the film including the opening title sequence.
Also in 2012, he played
John Alkin
John Alkin (born 17 January 1947) is an English actor turned spiritual healer. He was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, under the name John Kenneth Foinquinos.
Alkin is best remembered for two roles: DS Tom Daniels in '' The Sweeney'' and barrister ...
in BBC Four's ''The Best Possible Taste'', a biography of
Kenny Everett
Kenny Everett (born Maurice James Christopher Cole; 25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English comedian, radio disc jockey and television presenter. After spells on pirate radio and Radio Luxembourg in the mid-1960s, he was one of the fi ...
, as well as appearing in the film ''
Diana'' which starred
Naomi Watts
Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968) is a British actress. After her family moved to Australia, she made her film debut there in the drama '' For Love Alone'' (1986) and then appeared in three television series, '' Hey Dad..!'' (1990), '' ...
and was directed by
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Oliver Hirschbiegel (born 29 December 1957) is a German film director. His works include ''Das Experiment'' and the Oscar-nominated '' Downfall''.
Life and career
Hirschbiegel was born in Hamburg, Germany. A Waldorf graduate, Hirschbiegel stu ...
. The film was released in 2013.
In 2014, he played Neil in ''
In the Club'', returning for Series 2, in 2016.
He also appeared in and wrote original music for an ongoing film project called ''FLiM'' by Raffaello Degruttola.
2015 was a busy year for Kerrigan. He filmed a ten-part drama for SKY 1 called ''The Five'' written by
Harlen Coben
Harlan Coben is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple twists. Among his novels a ...
playing American businessman Stuart Carew. He also filmed series 2 of ''
In the Club'', both of which are to be screened in 2016.
Kerrigan and his wife both appeared in ''
Death in Paradise'' “Murder Most Animal” (S8:E2) in 2019. She played his wife. In 2021 he played Richard in 4th season of Kay Mellor's the Syndicate.
Personal life
In the 1990s, Kerrigan dated his ''
Casualty
Casualty may refer to:
*Casualty (person), a person who is killed or rendered unfit for service in a war or natural disaster
**Civilian casualty, a non-combatant killed or injured in warfare
* The emergency department of a hospital, also known as ...
'' co-star,
Claire Goose
Claire Goose (born 10 February 1975) is a British actress. She played Tina Seabrook, a nurse in BBC One's ''Casualty'', DS Mel Silver in '' Waking the Dead'', and Sergeant (later Inspector) Rachel Weston in ITV's ''The Bill''. She also narrat ...
. In 2011, he married actress
Shelley Conn
Shelley Deborah Conn (born 21 September 1976) is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Lady Mary Sharma in the hugely successful Netflix series ''Bridgerton'', as Isabella in the film ''Love Sarah'', as Dr Elizabeth Shan ...
, whom he had been in a relationship with for a decade. In 2012 they had a son.
References
External links
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BDi Composer
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1972 births
Living people
Alumni of Bretton Hall College
English people of Irish descent
English male television actors
English television composers
English male composers
People from Lincolnshire
People from Kentish Town