Will Thorp

William Francis Thorp (born 21 June 1977) is an English actor.

Early life Thorp attended St Augustine's Catholic College in Trowbridge. He studied at Bath College and joined Musical Youth Theatre Company. Thorp was also a member of the National Youth Theatre for six years before training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for three years.

Career Television credits includes; Stephen Poliakoff's "Friends and Crocodiles", Courtroom, Paul "Woody" Joiner in Casualty, Toby Zed in the 2006 series of Doctor Who in the episodes "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit". 2008, 'Hughie Green, Most Sincerely', Law and Order: UK, and in 2009 Thorp was cast as Chris Gray in Coronation Street. Other appearances include Scott & Bailey, Doctors, In The Club and "Unhallowed Ground" and Cornelius the Centurion in NBC's "A.D. The Bible Continues". Theatre credits include: "Home Delivery" New Vic Basement, "Cork and Spark" New Vic Studio, "The Lost Dragon" Chester Gateway Theatre, "High Society" UK Tour, Don John and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (2004), Teddy in Robbers and Sam (Sambo) in Fire Down Under! in 2002, In 2006 Thorp played the leading role in a national UK tour of the play Strangers on a Train. In 2008 he played the leading role in David Hare's play The Blue Room which opened at the Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke. 2013 "Love and Money (play)" UK Tour. In 2005, he appeared on the third series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, reaching seventh place with his partner Hanna Haarala. He guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio play 100.

He has narrated a series of Doctor Who novels; Forever Autumn, Sick Building, Peacemaker and The Krillitane Storm, all produced by BBC Audiobooks. Other audiobooks read by Thorp include The Knife That Killed Me, Hyperpsychoreality Syndrome, Baboon, Buy-ology, The Kill Call, Click, Who Runs Britain? and The Spook's Curse, "The David Bowie Treasures", "Inverting the Pyramid", "Anatomy of England" and "The Dynamite Room".

Credits YearTitleRoleNote 2003 Boys Will Be Boys Mark 2004–2005 Casualty Paul "Woody" Joiner 48 episodes 2004 The Courtroom PC David Wills 1 episode 2005 Holby City Woody Joiner 1 episode 2005 Friends and Crocodiles Soup Man 2 2005 Jodie 2006 Doctor Who Toby Zed 2 episodes: "The Impossible Planet" "The Satan Pit" 2008 Hughie Green, Most Sincerely TV Executive 2009 Law & Order: UK Joe Buttler Series 2, episode 3 2010–2011 Coronation Street Chris Gray 108 episodes 2012 Scott & Bailey DS Miller Series 2, episode 8 2013 Doctors Matt Davis 2014 In The Club Ross Jackson 2015 Unhallowed Ground 2015 A.D. The Bible Continues Cornelius 2018 Shakespeare & Hathaway Anton Dukes Series 1, episode 4 2021–2023 All Creatures Great and Small Gerald Hammond 13 episodes