Dexter Fletcher was born on 31 January 1966 and is an English film director and actor.
21 Facts About Dexter Fletcher
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Dexter Fletcher has appeared in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, as well as in television shows such as the comedy drama Hotel Babylon and the HBO series Band of Brothers and, earlier in his career, starred as Spike Thomson in the comedy drama Press Gang.
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Dexter Fletcher's earliest acting role was playing Baby Face in the 1976 film Bugsy Malone.
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Dexter Fletcher replaced Bryan Singer as director of Bohemian Rhapsody, a biopic about the band Queen, released in October 2018; due to DGA rules, he received executive producer credit.
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Dexter Fletcher made his stage debut the following year in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Dexter Fletcher has starred in the films Caravaggio, The Rachel Papers, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake, AffirmFilm's Solomon as Rehoboam and Universal's Doom.
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On television Dexter Fletcher has appeared in the major HBO drama, Band of Brothers and in a supporting role in the BBC One historical drama The Virgin Queen.
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Dexter Fletcher appeared in Kylie Minogue's music video for "Some Kind of Bliss".
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Dexter Fletcher starred on BBC One in a series based on Imogen Edwards-Jones's book Hotel Babylon that ran for four series before being cancelled in 2009.
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Dexter Fletcher appeared in "The Booby and the Beast", an episode in the second series of the BBC's series Robin Hood and in the 2008 radio series The Way We Live Right Now.
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Dexter Fletcher played a brief role in the BBC series New Tricks, in the episode "Final Curtain", as an actor named Tommy Jackson.
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Dexter Fletcher has been the voice for McDonald's television adverts and is the narrator of The Game audio book written by Neil Strauss.
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Dexter Fletcher narrated the Five series Airforce Afghanistan, as well as the Chop Shop: London Garage series on the Discovery Channel.
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In 1998, Dexter Fletcher featured on the song "Here Comes the Flood" from the album Fin de Siecle by The Divine Comedy.
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Dexter Fletcher's second film as director is a musical film by Stephen Greenhorn, Sunshine on Leith based around the popular Proclaimers songs which were released on 4 October 2013.
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On 6 December 2017, Dexter Fletcher was announced as Bryan Singer's replacement director on the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Dexter Fletcher directed the 2019 biopic Rocketman, about the life of Elton John.
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Dexter Fletcher was born in Enfield, the youngest of three boys, in North London, and grew up with his brothers in Woodford Green and Palmers Green; his parents were teachers.
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Dexter Fletcher is a dual British and Lithuanian citizen, having been granted Lithuanian citizenship in recognition of his work promoting Lithuanian cultural affairs.
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Dexter Fletcher's timing was unlucky because Edwards had seen the film for the first time only days before.
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In mitigation, Dexter Fletcher said that the flowers were for his girlfriend and Press Gang co-star Julia Sawalha, but that he had lost his cash card and was therefore unable to obtain funds.