Steven Blakeley

Steven Blakeley (born 26 February 1982) is a British actor. He is best known for his role as

Geoff Younger in the British police drama Heartbeat

, guest roles in various other television programmes and multiple theatre roles.

Early life

Steven Blakeley was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire in 1982 and was brought up in the Derbyshire mining town of Bolsover.

He attended the Bolsover School,^[1] and was initially interested in pursuing a medical career, before turning his attentions to performing.

Career

Blakeley started his career as a member of the

The Hypochondriac

, Soap and Cold Turkey.

As well as appearing in four series of

Off West End Awards for his portrayal of Comrade Staggles in J. B. Priestley's The Roundabout at the Park Theatre, London. He played the same role when the production transferred to New York in 2017. Blakeley played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Verges in Much Ado About Nothing with the British Shakespeare Company on their 2009 tour of the United Kingdom, Dublin

, Norway and Prague.

Blakeley has also worked as a writer and theatre director. Since 2009, he has appeared in, written and directed several pantomimes at the

Theatre Royal Windsor, playing the pantomime dame in Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin and Jack and the Beanstalk. In 2010, he was acting at Derby Theatre.^[2]

Blakeley appeared in ITV's Coronation Street and the BBC's Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley in 2018. In 2020, he appeared in the All Creatures Great and Small episode "All's Fair" as Mr. Foyle.

Blakeley is also now a civil celebrant and funeral director working for A.Wass in Mansfield.

References

^ Chad, local newspaper, 28 July 2010, p.29. Accessed 28 September 2020
^ HEARTBEAT may now have passed into the TV archive vaults, but the small screen's loss is proving to be Derby Live's gain. This is Derbyshire^{[dead link]}

External links

Steven Blakeley at
IMDb

[1] Chad, local newspaper, 28 July 2010, p.29. Accessed 28 September 2020

[2] HEARTBEAT may now have passed into the TV archive vaults, but the small screen's loss is proving to be Derby Live's gain. This is Derbyshire^{[dead link]}

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