23 Facts About Noel Clarke

Noel Anthony Clarke was born on 6 December 1975 and is an English actor, writer, director and producer.

Noel Clarke has won numerous accodales, including the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer in 2003, the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award in 2009, and received the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award in 2021.

Noel Clarke was born in Notting Hill, west London, to Trinidadian parents Gemma, a nurse and part-time laundrette worker, and Alphaeus Baptiste "Alf" Noel Clarke, a carpenter.

Noel Clarke's parents divorced shortly after he was born, and he was brought up by his mother on a council estate in Ladbroke Grove, where his mother still lives.

Noel Clarke studied media at the University of North London, and worked as a personal trainer before taking acting classes at London's Actors Centre.

Noel Clarke had recurring television roles as Wyman Norris in the revived series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and as Mickey Smith in the first two series of the revival of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who.

Noel Clarke starred in the Doctor Who audio series Dalek Empire: The Fearless, which was released from September to December 2007.

Noel Clarke reprised his role as Mickey in "Journey's End" in 2008 and in "The End of Time" Part 2 in 2010.

Noel Clarke wrote "Combat", an episode of the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, and West 10 LDN, a pilot for BBC Three about the intense lives of the teenagers who live on a West London housing estate.

Noel Clarke has acted on the stage, and won the Laurence Olivier Award for "Most Promising Newcomer" in 2003 for his performance in the play Where Do We Live at the Royal Court Theatre.

Noel Clarke began his filmmaking career when he wrote the screenplay for the film Kidulthood, which depicted two days in the lives of a multi-ethnic group of West London teenagers, who are given the day off school after a bullied classmate's suicide.

Noel Clarke wrote the film based on his own experiences growing up in Ladbroke Grove, which he began developing with director Menhaj Huda and producer George Isaac.

In 2008, following the success of Kidulthood, Noel Clarke was hired to write and star in Adulthood, where he made his directoral debut.

In 2009, Noel Clarke was awarded a BAFTA award in the category of Orange Rising Star Award.

In 2010, Noel Clarke turned to mainstream films by writing and co-directing 4.3.2.1.

In 2015, Noel Clarke created a short-lived superhero series, The Troop, for Titan Comics.

In 2018, Noel Clarke co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the Sky One police procedural series Bulletproof, alongside Ashley Walters.

In 2021, Noel Clarke starred in and executively-produced the ITV police procedural miniseries Viewpoint, which aired on ITV nightly from 26 April 2021.

Noel Clarke was overseeing the adaptation, his first major project for children, through his production company, but it ended up being transferred to New Pictures and is set to debut on CBBC, sometime in 2025.

The second was the coming-of-age school-based drama series Boarders for BBC Three, which Noel Clarke created from scratch, after reading a newspaper article about a scholarship scheme for underprivileged young black teenagers.

However, after the Guardian article was released, Noel Clarke was removed from the project and Taylor was left as the sole lead writer and creator of the show, when the show debuted on BBC Three, in February 2024.

One of these accusations was made by an anonymous actress who said that Noel Clarke "made advances on me" and asked her regularly if she "wanted a piece of his dark chocolate".

Noel Clarke explained that when she rejected his advances, Clarke defamed her to people in the industry.