Danial John Dyer was born on 24 July 1977 and is an English actor and presenter.
35 Facts About Danny Dyer
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Danny Dyer has worked in theatre, having appeared in three plays written by Harold Pinter, with whom he had a close friendship.
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In 2013, Danny Dyer joined the cast of the BBC soap opera EastEnders, in the role of Mick Carter.
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Danny Dyer had previously turned down a role in 2009, and in his autobiography, Straight Up, said that he would not join the cast until he was "fat, bald and fifty".
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Danny Dyer won the Serial Drama Performance award at the National Television Awards in 2015,2016, and 2019.
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Danial John Danny Dyer was born in the Custom House area of London on 24 July 1977, the son of Christine and Antony Danny Dyer.
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Danny Dyer began acting when he was a teen, and was bullied at school so badly by his peers that he lied about taking acting classes.
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Danny Dyer was discovered at a local school by an agent who auditioned him for the part of Martin Fletcher in the Granada Television series Prime Suspect 3, beginning his acting career at 16.
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Danny Dyer appeared on television in episodes of Cadfael, A Touch of Frost, Loved Up, Thief Takers, Highlander and Soldier Soldier.
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In February 2012, Danny Dyer appeared as a paramedic in an episode of Casualty.
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In March 2013, Danny Dyer appeared as a guest on Celebrity Juice.
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Danny Dyer appeared in the sixth series of Hollyoaks Later in October 2013, as The White Man.
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On 1 October 2013, the BBC announced that Danny Dyer had been cast in EastEnders from Christmas 2013, as Mick Carter, the new landlord of The Queen Victoria pub.
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In February 2017, it was announced that Danny Dyer would be taking a "short break" from EastEnders.
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In January 2022, it was announced that Danny Dyer had quit EastEnders after over eight years in the role of Mick.
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In June 2018, Danny Dyer appeared as a guest panelist on Good Evening Britain, a one-off spin-off show of Good Morning Britain, to discuss Britain's exit from the European Union.
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Also that year, Danny Dyer co-presented True Love or True Lies on MTV alongside daughter Dani, as well as beginning his presenting role on The Wall on BBC One.
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Danny Dyer is known for his "bad boy" or "hard man" roles in film.
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Later that year, Danny Dyer completed filming on Jack Said, a Brit noir thriller in which he played Nathan alongside Ashlie Walker, Terry Stone, David O'Hara and Simon Phillips, which was released in November 2009.
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Danny Dyer played one of the lead roles in the British vampire film Dead Cert.
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Danny Dyer co-starred with Anna Walton in Deviation, a British dark thriller written and directed by JK Amalou.
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In 2012, Danny Dyer played the lead role in Ray Cooney's Run For Your Wife.
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Danny Dyer has performed on stage, most notably in two plays written and directed by 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter: as the Waiter in the London premiere of Celebration, at the Almeida Theatre, which transferred to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York, as part of the Harold Pinter Festival held there in July and August 2001; and as Foster in the revival of No Man's Land, at the Royal National Theatre, in London, during 2001 and 2002.
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Danny Dyer performed in Peter Gill's play Certain Young Men in London.
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From 9 September 2009 to 3 October 2009, Danny Dyer appeared as Sid Vicious in a new play called Kurt and Sid in London's West End at the Trafalgar Studios.
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Danny Dyer is the voice of Kent Paul in the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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Danny Dyer appears in The Twang's 2007 video for "Two Lovers".
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In 2021, along with Will Mellor, Danny Dyer recorded a new version of "Vindaloo" for NHS Charities.
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In January 2022, Danny Dyer quit EastEnders so that he could accept an offer to appear on a Sky series.
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In 2010, in his capacity as a celebrity agony uncle, Danny Dyer wrote in Zoo that a young male reader could get over his recent break-up with a woman by "going on a rampage with the boys" or to "cut your ex's face, and then no one will want her".
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Danny Dyer was quoted in a May 2011 article in NME as wanting to headbutt film critic Mark Kermode.
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Danny Dyer has been an outspoken critic of former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Danny Dyer voted for Brexit, but later changed his mind and considered himself to be a "poster boy" for the campaign to stop it.
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Danny Dyer began dating Joanne Mas in 1992 but they separated after the birth of their first daughter, future television personality Dani Dyer, in 1996; they began dating other people, but soon started an affair with each other and decided to reconcile.
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In 2016, Danny Dyer travelled to Sierra Leone to take part in Sport Relief.