Nicholas Day

Nicholas Patrick Day (born 16 October 1947) is an English actor, who is currently the narrator on the Netflix series Myths & Monsters and also starred as Anthony Fox in ITV soap Emmerdale.

Life Day was educated at Alleyn's School, a private day school in the south London suburb of Dulwich, before studying at the University of Bristol acting with their drama department. Day was a supply teacher at Plumstead Manor School for Girls' for a brief time during the early 1980s, where he taught drama.

Acting He is perhaps best known for playing Detective Sergeant Michael Morley in Minder from 1991 to 1993. He also played Deputy Assistant Commissioner Donald Bevan in Series One of the BBC drama New Tricks. He portrayed Jack The Ripper, in series six (episode five) of Goodnight Sweetheart in 1999, and played another police officer, DCS John Meredith, in a single episode of Foyle's War in 2008. In 2009 he appeared in Margaret and The Take, and as Martin Crisp in The Dogleg Murders (Series 12 of Midsomer Murders).

His film roles include appearances in Penelope Pulls It Off (1975), The Golden Bowl (2000), Russian Dolls (2005) and Amazing Grace (2006).

2010s

In 2010 he played Colonel Montford in Joe Johnston's horror film The Wolfman.

Since 2015 he has presented Murder Maps, which is made by Netflix in the United Kingdom and is now in its fifth series in the UK. Murder Maps is also shown on Yesterday. In 2021, he narrated Railway Murders.

2020s

Day played Anthony Fox, the father of Ruby and grandfather of Stephanie, in ITV soap opera Emmerdale. The character was killed off when it was discovered that he had sexually abused his daughter and was actually the father of Stephanie.

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