Russell George Tovey was born on 14 November 1981 and is an English actor.
40 Facts About Russell Tovey
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Russell Tovey is the younger of two sons of Carole and George Tovey, who ran a Romford-based coach service taking passengers from Essex to Gatwick Airport.
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Russell Tovey attended Harold Court School in Harold Wood and Shenfield High School.
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Russell Tovey joined a local drama club and garnered the attention of a talent agent.
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Russell Tovey worked from the age of 11 and missed so much school that his father suggested he should cut back, but his mother persuaded his father to let their son continue.
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Russell Tovey left secondary school at the age of 16 and started a BTEC in performing arts at Barking College.
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Russell Tovey was expelled after a year for refusing a role in the school play in favour of a paying acting job.
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Russell Tovey acted in plays in Chichester under the direction of Debra Gillett, wife of Patrick Marber.
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Russell Tovey met Marber through Gillett, and Marber cast him in the play Howard Katz at the National Theatre.
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Russell Tovey performed in His Girl Friday and His Dark Materials there.
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Russell Tovey originally auditioned for the role of Crowther but agreed to act the part of Rudge after Bennett promised to beef up the role.
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In spring 2007, Russell Tovey had a recurring role in BBC Three comedy Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, playing Rob's producer, Ben.
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Russell Tovey played Midshipman Alonso Frame, in 2007 Doctor Who Christmas Special "Voyage of the Damned".
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Russell Tovey played werewolf George Sands, one of three supernatural housemates in the drama Being Human.
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Russell Tovey left the regular cast of the show at the start of the fourth season on 5 February 2012.
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Russell Tovey appeared in three shorts: Drop, Roar, Roar premiered at the Palm Springs Film Festival on 24 June 2009.
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Russell Tovey had a lead role in the ITV sitcom The Job Lot which aired in 2013 and is set in a busy unemployment bureau in the West Midlands.
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In 2013, Russell Tovey signed on to appear in the American television series Looking, about a group of gay friends living in San Francisco.
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Russell Tovey was promoted to series regular for the second season.
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In 2015, Russell Tovey starred in Banished, a historical drama series written by Jimmy McGovern about a group of British convicts in Australia in the 18th century.
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Also in 2015, Russell Tovey made his first of many live appearances for arts and entertainment company Pin Drop Studio, reading a short story to an audience followed by an interview by Simon Oldfield.
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In 2016, Russell Tovey was cast in the ABC network thriller drama Quantico for the series regular role of Harry Doyle.
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Russell Tovey appeared in "Crisis on Earth-X", the Arrowverse crossover event between Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.
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In 2019, Russell Tovey co-starred in an ensemble cast on the show Years and Years, and appeared with Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen in the drama film The Good Liar.
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Russell Tovey was awarded the Culture Award at the ninth annual Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards.
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In 2021, it was announced Russell Tovey had been cast in Allelujah, a film adaptation of Alan Bennett's play of the same name.
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In 2022, Russell Tovey started a role as Patrick Read in American Horror Story: NYC.
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Russell Tovey has written three plays, and one of his short stories was published in women's magazine Company.
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Russell Tovey wrote a short film, Victor, and as of August 2010 was seeking funding to produce the picture.
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Russell Tovey collects contemporary art, which he got into at the age of 21 when his parents bought him a Tracey Emin print that he admired called Dog Brains.
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Russell Tovey is passionate about supporting emerging and mid-career artists with his collecting.
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Since 2018, Russell Tovey has hosted a podcast called Talk Art with his friend, the gallerist Robert Diament of Carl Freedman gallery, in which the pair talk to their favourite artists, curators and art enthusiasts.
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In 2019, Russell Tovey guest curated Margate Now, an arts festival based in Margate.
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Russell Tovey has since curated a number of exhibitions for various galleries, as well as a contemporary art auction for Sotheby's.
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Russell Tovey was part of the jury of the 2021 Turner Prize.
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Russell Tovey was appointed the 2022 patron for the Art UK charity.
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In 2015, Russell Tovey was the subject of public criticism from the LGBT+ press regarding comments he made about effeminate gay men.
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Russell Tovey was reported to be dating former porn star and rugby coach Steve Brockman beginning in early 2016.
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Russell Tovey has read several books for audio, notably a 2017 performance of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Russell Tovey is the narrator for the 20th anniversary edition audiobook of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, released in 2015.