17 Facts About Lee Ingleby

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Lee David Ingleby was born on 28 January 1976 and is an English film, television and stage actor.

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Lee Ingleby then studied at Accrington and Rossendale College before progressing to the drama school LAMDA in London.

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Lee Ingleby played Smike in a 2001 television film version of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

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Lee Ingleby has made one-off appearances in television programmes such as Hustle, Clocking Off, No Angels, Fat Friends, Jonathan Creek, Spaced, Dalziel and Pascoe, Cadfael and The Bill.

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Lee Ingleby has had supporting roles in films such as Gustave in Ever After alongside Drew Barrymore and as Hollom in the 2003 Peter Weir film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

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In 2004, Lee Ingleby had a small role in the Orlando Bloom vehicle Haven, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival but was not commercially released until 2006 following heavy re-editing.

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Lee Ingleby guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio adventure Terror Firma.

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In 2006 Lee Ingleby appeared in Jimmy McGovern BBC TV series The Street, where he played abusive husband Sean O'Neill alongside Christine Bottomley.

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Lee Ingleby appeared in a modernised BBC adaptation of Rapunzel for the Fairy Tales series.

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In 2007 Lee Ingleby was cast as DS John Bacchus in the BBC police drama Inspector George Gently.

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Lee Ingleby headed the cast of the 2008 three-part television crime drama A Place of Execution as DI George Bennett as he was in the 1960s determined to close the case of a missing girl.

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Lee Ingleby performed in the play Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek at the Cottesloe Theatre from September 2009 to January 2010 as Zygmunt.

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In 2011, Lee Ingleby appeared in the television series Being Human as Edgar Wyndham, a menacing vampire elder, and in Luther as serial killer Cameron Pell.

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In 2013, Lee Ingleby took on the voice role of Phillip De Nicholay, the Sheriff of Nottingham, in a new audio production of the Robin Hood legend, produced by Spiteful Puppet.

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In 2015 Lee Ingleby first played Bob in the UK version of the new computer-generated series Bob The Builder - a role that continued until 2018.

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In 2016 Lee Ingleby first appeared in the role of Paul Hughes, father of autistic child Joe, in BBC drama series The A Word, which ran until 2020.

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In 2023 Lee Ingleby starred as the lead detective in The Hunt for Raoul Moat, ITV1 series of 3 consecutive night episodes.