24 Facts About Neil Pearson

Neil John Pearson was born on 27 April 1959 and is a British actor, known for his work on television.

Neil Pearson was nominated for the 1994 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for Between the Lines.

Neil Pearson is an antiquarian book dealer who specialises in the expatriate literary movement of Paris between the World Wars.

Neil Pearson's father, a panel beater, left home when he was five; his mother was a legal secretary.

Neil Pearson was a boarder at Woolverstone Hall School near Ipswich, Suffolk where he first learned to act.

Neil Pearson attended the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1977 to 1980.

Neil Pearson won a part in Hat Trick Productions' sitcom Chelmsford 123 and appeared with Hat Trick executive Jimmy Mulville in That's Love.

Neil Pearson narrated Colin Wyatt's animated series The Poddington Peas in 1986.

Neil Pearson has been in several films, including The Secret Rapture, Fever Pitch and Bridget Jones's Diary.

Neil Pearson played Major Steve Arnold, the American interrogator, in Taking Sides at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in 2003.

Neil Pearson played Rob in The Booze Cruise, and then in the second and third sequels in 2005 and 2006.

Neil Pearson appeared in the 2006 Radio Four series Vent as Ben.

Neil Pearson played the choirmaster Michael Caddick in the BBC drama All the Small Things in 2009.

In 2014 Neil Pearson became a series regular in Waterloo Road as new headteacher Vaughan Fitzgerald.

Neil Pearson was a judge on Channel 4's The Play's the Thing, which sought to find a play written by an unknown writer for a run in the West End.

Neil Pearson appeared in a touring revival of Sir Peter Hall's production of Harold Pinter's Old Times in 2006, and in a production of Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, in 2009.

Neil Pearson appeared as Eric Morley in an episode of The Reckoning, a miniseries about the life of Jimmy Savile.

Neil Pearson has acted in several BBC Radio Dramas including the black comedy series Vent as comatose writer Ben Smith, adaptations of the Martin Beck novels playing Beck's sidekick Detective Lennart Kollberg, and House of Ghosts: A Case for Inspector Morse where he played the late Colin Dexter's iconic fictional detective Inspector Morse.

Neil Pearson is the author of a book on the publisher Jack Kahane, Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press.

Neil Pearson is a collector of rare drama scripts and in 2011 he opened an online bookshop specialising in theatrical material.

Neil Pearson has a special interest in the expatriate literary movement of Paris between the wars.

Neil Pearson strongly identifies with the British Left, having made a party election broadcast for the Labour Party for the 1994 European Elections, though he later supported Ken Livingstone when Livingstone ran as an independent candidate for Mayor of London in 2000.

Neil Pearson is a keen Texas hold 'em poker player and participated in the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe event in London.

Neil Pearson is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur and regularly attends home games.