Nigel Pivaro was born on 11 December 1959 and is a British actor and journalist.
19 Facts About Nigel Pivaro
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Nigel Pivaro is best known for playing Terry Duckworth, the son of Jack and Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street.
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Nigel Pivaro appeared as a regular character for four years until his departure in June 1987.
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Nigel Pivaro returned the following year appearing from August to December 1988.
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Nigel Pivaro continued making appearances on the show on a recurring basis from 1992 to 2002.
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Nigel Pivaro made his most recent and final appearance to date in 2012 to participate in a major storyline involving his estranged son Tommy and his girlfriend Tina McIntyre in which Terry left her to die in a burning railway arch.
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Apart from Coronation Street Nigel Pivaro made guest appearances in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Sergeant Pearce and Expert Witness as killer Colin Wardle.
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Nigel Pivaro appeared in The Sunny Side of the Street for Channel Four.
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Nigel Pivaro has acted in many theatre productions, including Wuthering Heights, What the Butler Saw, A Taste of Honey, The Tempest, Greek, An Evening with Gary Lineker co-starring Paul Ritter, Funny Peculiar, A View from the Bridge and Up and Under, including a 2003 appearance with John Altman in the John Godber play Bouncers.
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In 2006, after completing a NTCJ Post Graduate course, Nigel Pivaro became a journalist, working for the Manchester Evening News and then the Tameside Reporter in Stalybridge.
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Nigel Pivaro is a freelance journalist, and has been published regularly in the Daily Star, Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror and Catholic Herald newspapers.
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Nigel Pivaro has written and presented documentary films for the BBC Inside Out series, including "Regeneration Game" which challenged the Government backed Housing Market Renewal programme and criticised its treatment of residents who were forced out of their neighbourhoods to make way for more affluent people.
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In 2009, Nigel Pivaro wrote and presented "The Battle for St Michael's" for BBC's Inside Out.
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In January 2010 Nigel Pivaro appeared alongside Salford Star editor Stephen Kingston on BBC Newsnight in a film about the effects of regeneration in Salford.
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In 2008 along with Salford Star editor and founder Stephen Kingston, Nigel Pivaro received the "How Do" award for best investigative journalism.
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In 2010, Nigel Pivaro presented a lecture at the University of Wolverhampton on his experiences while reporting on regeneration and participated in a special Radio 4 Today programme with Evan Davis where he criticised the Media City development at Salford Quays.
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Nigel Pivaro graduated in 2003 with a 2:1 Honours degree in Contemporary Military and International History.
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In November 2012, Nigel Pivaro read a eulogy at former co-star Bill Tarmey's funeral.
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Nigel Pivaro is an obsessional map enthusiast and frequently refuses to use satellite navigation systems despite driving thousands of miles to assignment destinations.