Reece Dinsdale was born on 6 August 1959 and is an English actor and director.
28 Facts About Reece Dinsdale
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Reece Dinsdale's credits include Threads, A Private Function, Winter Flight, Home to Roost, Haggard, ID, Hamlet, Murder in Mind, Spooks, Conviction, Ahead of the Class, Love Lies Bleeding, Life on Mars, The Chase, Silent Witness, Midnight Man, Coronation Street, Moving On, Waterloo Road, The Knife That Killed Me, and Emmerdale.
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Reece Dinsdale followed this up by appearing in Out on the Floor a single drama for the BBC, in 1982.
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Reece Dinsdale played Jimmy Kemp in Threads, a-soon-to-be-father and husband caught up in a nuclear attack on Sheffield.
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Glamour Night, another single drama for the BBC, followed in 1984 before Reece Dinsdale was cast as Matthew Willows in the British sitcom Home to Roost written by Eric Chappell and co-starring John Thaw.
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Reece Dinsdale played Thaw's unruly teenage son Matthew who comes to live with his estranged father after his mother throws him out.
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Reece Dinsdale played the leading role of Jack Rover in Wild Oats in the inaugural production at the newly built West Yorkshire Playhouse in 1990.
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Reece Dinsdale then appeared in Young Catherine, a miniseries in which he played the Grand Duke Peter.
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Reece Dinsdale then appeared at the National Theatre in David Hare's Racing Demon.
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Reece Dinsdale has continued to play leading roles on both stage and screen.
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Reece Dinsdale guested in Spooks, Life on Mars, Murder in Mind, Silent Witness.
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Reece Dinsdale starred opposite Julie Walters in the ITV drama Ahead of the Class and played Robert in Conviction for the BBC.
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Reece Dinsdale starred in two series of The Chase and in two thrillers for ITV, Love Lies Bleeding and Midnight Man.
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Reece Dinsdale played Doctor Wengel in Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
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In 2013, Reece Dinsdale played the role of Walter Harrison in James Graham's hit play This House on the Olivier stage at the National Theatre, directed by Jeremy Herrin.
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In 2015 Reece Dinsdale played the central role of George Jones in Headlong's national tour of Sir David Hare's play The Absence of War, directed by Jeremy Herrin.
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In October 2015 Reece Dinsdale played the title role in Shakespeare's Richard III at The West Yorkshire Playhouse.
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Reece Dinsdale has an extensive list of BBC Radio Drama credits and, in 2014, he was awarded a Yorkshire Award for Services to Arts and Entertainment.
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In 2017, Reece Dinsdale was made a patron of the Square Chapel Arts Centre in Halifax.
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In 2020, Reece Dinsdale joined the ITV soap opera Emmerdale playing the villainous Paul Ashdale.
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Reece Dinsdale left the soap in 2021 when his character was killed off in an explosion.
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In January 2012 Reece Dinsdale directed his first drama for television; a 45-minute single drama called "The Crossing" starring Lee Boardman, Ramona Marquez and Susie Blake, in the Secrets and Words series for BBC1.
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In May 2015, Reece Dinsdale completed his third drama for BBC Television, "Scratch", starring Will Ash and Chris Coghill, for the Moving On series.
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Reece Dinsdale thereafter directed a fourth TV drama, again in the Moving On series, for Jimmy McGovern: "Eighteen", a story about the attempted deportation of an Afghan youth back to his native Kabul, starring Antonio Aakeel and Rosie Cavaliero.
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In 2017, Reece Dinsdale directed Sue Johnston in "Lost" by Shaun Duggan for the Moving On series.
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Reece Dinsdale has directed several episodes of Emmerdale and announced in spring 2022 that he is to direct episodes of Coronation Street.
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In 2009, Reece Dinsdale wrote the short film Imaginary Friend which was filmed and stars Maxine Peake and Zara Turner.
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Reece Dinsdale is an honorary patron of The Old Courts multi-arts centre in Wigan.