1. Nigel Allan Havers was born on 6 November 1951 and is an English actor and presenter.
28 Facts About Nigel Havers
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Nigel Havers's mother is Carol Lay, who is an author.
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Nigel Havers's paternal uncle, David Havers, was a Manchester-based businessman.
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Nigel Havers was educated at Nowton Court Prep School in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and the Arts Educational School, an independent school in London.
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Nigel Havers opted against the Eton education traditional in his family, although his father had attended Westminster School, because he thought that fagging "sounded frightful".
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Nigel Havers is most known for "playing the quintessential, old school Englishman with his dashing good looks, cut-glass accent and thoroughly charming manner".
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Nigel Havers's first acting job was in the radio series Mrs Dale's Diary and he subsequently went on to working for the Prospect Theatre Company initially "carrying a spear and making cups of tea" as he puts it in his autobiography.
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From an early age Nigel Havers had an eye for the ladies; Kenneth More, a friend of his father, advised a young Nigel Havers that "If you are charming, you don't have to ask them to go to bed, they ask you".
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Nigel Havers ended this part of his career when his girlfriend, who later became his first wife, Carolyn Cox, suggested they move in together in 1974.
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In 1975, Nigel Havers's career began to pick up with an appearance in Upstairs, Downstairs, appearing in one of the series' last episodes, "Joke Over" as Peter Dinmont, one of Georgina's Roaring Twenties "party" friends.
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Nigel Havers's first film appearance was a small part in Pope Joan and he was a character in The Glittering Prizes, but his first major success came with the leading role in a BBC dramatisation of Nicholas Nickleby, closely followed by another BBC drama serial, A Horseman Riding By.
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Nigel Havers co-starred for several years in the 1980s BBC sitcom Don't Wait Up alongside Dinah Sheridan and Tony Britton.
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Nigel Havers starred in The Little Princess with Maureen Lipman.
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Nigel Havers co-starred with Warren Clarke in the 1991 BBC comedic mini-series Sleepers.
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Nigel Havers appeared on This Is Your Life in 1992, having been surprised by host Michael Aspel at Twickenham Film Studios.
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Nigel Havers later wrote an autobiography, titled Playing with Fire, which was published in October 2006 by Headline Publishing Group.
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Nigel Havers returned to the role on 17 February 2012 and left again on 1 February 2013.
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Nigel Havers returned again on 1 June 2018 and remained in Coronation Street until the character's death on 1 January 2019.
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In November 2010, Nigel Havers became a contestant on the tenth series of I'm A Celebrity.
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In July 2012, Nigel Havers presented a programme on ITV called The Real Chariots of Fire, a documentary about the runners who inspired the film Chariots of Fire.
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On 25 January 2015, Nigel Havers took part in celebrity talent show Get Your Act Together.
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Nigel Havers appeared in the ninth series of the sitcom Benidorm, in 2017, returning as the same character for the tenth series in 2018.
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Nigel Havers joined fellow celebrities Simon Callow, Lorraine Chase, and Debbie McGee on the Channel 5 show, Celebrity Carry On Barging, later that year.
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In March 2025, Nigel Havers appeared in the four-part ITV series A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story as his own grandfather the judge Sir Cecil Nigel Havers.
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Nigel Havers has stated that he had several affairs during his first marriage, which he now regrets.
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Nigel Havers has written of the depression he experienced trying to choose between his marriage to Carolyn Cox and their young daughter Kate, born in 1977, and his mistress, Polly Williams.
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Nigel Havers was arrested in February 1990 on suspicion of drink-driving, and taken to Harrow police station.
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On 8 June 2007, Nigel Havers married Essex native Georgiana "George" Bronfman, in New York City.