James Larkin (born 17 March 1963) is an English actor, most notable for his portrayal of the character Dylan in '' EastEnders'', Inspector Lapointe in Granada's ''

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'' and

Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...

in the 2005 ''

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''. Larkin was born in Surrey, and has also written for the screen. His works include '' Int. Bedsit - Day'' (2007) and '' Dead on Time'' (1999, for which he gained a nomination for First Prize for Short Films at the 1999

Montréal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto Internat ...

) and worked as a director, especially on 18 episodes of '' Doctors'' during 2008. In 2011, he returned to the soap playing villain

Harrison Kellor '' Doctors'' is a British medical soap opera which began broadcasting on BBC One on 26 March 2000. Set in the fictional West Midlands town of Letherbridge, the soap follows the lives of the staff and patients of the Mill Health Centre, a ficti ...

. In 1998, he played the part of the artist, Stanhope, in "Colour Blind", a TV mini-series based on the

Catherine Cookson Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, DBE (''née'' McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile i ...

novel. In 2004 he played Dr Matt Carney in “Shadowplay“, S4:E11&12 of '' Waking the Dead''. In 2016, he appeared in "

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", an episode of the

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''.

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