Tom Varey is a British actor. He is known for his roles in '' Pond Life'', ''

No Offence ''No Offence'' is a British television police procedural drama on Channel 4, created by Paul Abbott. It follows a team of detectives from Friday Street police station, a division of the Manchester Metropolitan Police (a fictional version of the ...

'' and '' Ridley Road''.

Early life

Varey grew up in

Mossley Mossley (/ˈmɒzli/) is a town and civil parish in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Tame Valley and the foothills of the Pennines, southeast of Oldham and east of Manchester. The historic counties of Lancashire, Cheshir ...

Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tam ...

. He studied at the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 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 Senat ...

for three years from 2011 to 2014.

Career

After graduating, Varey starred as Bert Middleton in series two of BBC One series '' The Village''. From 2015, he had a main role in the Channel 4 television series ''

'' as PC Stuart O’Connor, playing the role for all three series until the programme ended in 2018. In 2016, he featured in an episode of the sixth season of '' Game of Thrones'' as Lord Cley Cerwen and in episode 1 of ITV series '' Dark Angel'' as Billy Mowbray. Varey played PE teacher Will Simpson for the first two series of ''

Ackley Bridge ''Ackley Bridge'' is a British comedy-drama series set in a multicultural academy school of the same name. The series is filmed in Halifax, West Yorkshire and it began broadcasting on Channel 4 on 7 June 2017. In the fourth series, ''Ackley B ...

'' from 2017 to 2018. Varey starred as Trevor in the feature film '' Pond Life'' in 2018. He also appeared in episode 5 of '' Death in Paradise'' in 2020. In October 2021, he played Jack Morris in '' Ridley Road''.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Varey, Tom 21st-century English male actors Male actors from Manchester Alumni of RADA English male film actors English male television actors Living people People from Mossley Year of birth missing (living people)