Native to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, trained at Rose Bruford Drama School. Theatre Coriolanus And Under The Black Flag (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre), Seafarers, Your Home In The West, Close The Coalhouse Door, Two, Oh What a Lovely War, Twelve Tales of Tyneside, Cooking with Elvis, Double Lives, Charlie’s Trousers, The Filleting Machine and Toast (Live Theatre Company in Newcastle), Shooting The Legend, Nei and Beautiful Game (Live Theatre/Theatre Royal Newcastle) All Credit to the Lads, (Sheffield Crucible) Keepers of the Flame, (RSC) Cooking with Elvis, (Live Theatre/ Edinburgh Festival/West End & Number 1 tour) Bones, (Hampstead Theatre/Live Theatre) and The Cherry Orchard, (Oxford Stage Company). Feature film - Billy Elliot, Purely Belter, Gabriel and Me, The One and Only and Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason. Television - Northern Lights Spender, Harry, Finney, Crocodile Shoes, Heartbeat, Our Friends in the North, Pie in the Sky, King Leek (Granada TV) See you Friday (YTV), The Student Prince (BBC) The Round Tower (Festival Films) Peak Practice (Central TV) Hettie Wainthropp Investigates,(BBC), City Central (BBC), Byker Grove (Zenith/BBC), Touching Evil III, Daddy’s Girl (Granada), Passerby (BBC), Emmerdale (YTV), The Walk (Granada TV) and Diamond Geezer (Granada). Radio - Blood Sugar, The Pamela Miles Show, Neitzsome’s Horse, Skellig, Think Tank - Three Philosophical Plays, A Woman’s Walk Is Never Done, Dunstanbrough Secrets, The Legend of Los Trombastardos and several series of The Little World of Don Camillo (BBC Radio 4) and Gristle (Radio 3).
