Rickie Joseph Grover was born on 24 December 1961 and is an English actor and comedian.
13 Facts About Ricky Grover
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Ricky Grover is best known for his role in EastEnders as Andrew Cotton as well as voicing Yangus in the Dragon Quest series.
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Ricky Grover's stepfather was an armed robber and his mother a hairdresser.
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Ricky Grover then became a stand-up comedian, actor and occasional television presenter.
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Ricky Grover is dyslexic and could not read or write until his early thirties.
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Ricky Grover started boxing at the age of 6 and started boxing professionally at 22 where he became a European super-lightweight champion and a British welterweight champion.
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Ricky Grover has appeared in television programmes including Red Dwarf, Fist of Fun, 'Orrible, The 11 O'Clock Show, Honky Sausages and Black Books.
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Ricky Grover provided the voice acting for the character of Yangus in the English language version of the PlayStation 2 game Dragon Quest VIII.
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Ricky Grover has appeared in adverts for Virgin Mobile and Beagle Street Insurance.
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Ricky Grover had a role in the vampire film Dead Cert and in the horror drama Tony, which was released in UK cinemas on 5 February 2010.
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Ricky Grover had a role in an episode of Not Going Out in 2011, playing a drug-dealing butcher.
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Ricky Grover reprised the role of Yangus in the 2015 videogame Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below.
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From July 2003, Ricky Grover wrote a column, "Raging Bulla", for the monthly magazine Loaded until its final issue in 2015.