Calvin Dean

Calvin Dean (born 21 May 1985) is an English screen and stage actor.

Early life Dean was born in Truro, Cornwall. He grew up in Polruan, Cornwall, attending Polruan Primary School and later Fowey Community College. His mother, Lorraine, worked as a teaching assistant and nanny, and his father, Graham, worked for a local harbour commissioner and was a lighthouse keeper. He heard about the National Youth Theatre while in secondary school. After successfully auditioning, he stayed with the company from 2001 to 2005. During this time, he appeared in productions including The Threepenny Opera, Murder in the Cathedral and Hanging Around at the National Theatre.

Dean's television credits include the Neil Gaiman penned "Cyberman" episode of Doctor Who alongside Warwick Davis, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Jason Watkins. This was the first time Dean and Matt Smith had worked together since being members of The National Youth Theatre together in 2003. Dean's other credits include Demons, Casualty, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Law & Order: UK and the BBC drama Dancing on the Edge written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff.

Dean starred in Kneehigh Theatre's Fup in 2016, Simon Harvey's adaptation of a novel by Jim Dodge, it received a four star rating from The Times, and was performed at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall in 2016. Dean will return to the Kneehigh in 2018 for a UK tour of Fup.

Dean won Best Actor at the Eindhoven Film Festival, Brussels Short Film Festival and the Hyperwave Film Awards in Los Angeles for his work in the short film Make Aliens Dance.

Dean appears in the Russell T. Davies Channel 4 drama It's a Sin and plays young Ted in the BBC drama Strike.

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