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Dean Andrews

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61 Years Old

Dean Andrews is an English actor. He is known for his role as DS Ray Carling in the BBC drama series Life on Mars. He continued the role in the sequel series, Ashes to Ashes, until 2010. As of April 2019, he appeared as Will Taylor on ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Andrews left the show on 26 December 2024 when his character Will died of a heart attack. Born in 1963 in Rotherham, Andrews went to Sitwell Junior School on Grange Road and Oakwood Comprehensive School on Moorgate Road. He went to school with Top Gear presenter James May. Dean Andrews started off as a mainstay of cruise ships as a talented entertainer and singer. He was discovered by film director Ken Loach, who was looking for people from Yorkshire to appear in the 2001 film, The Navigators. He then went on to play Barry Shiel in the Channel 4 drama Buried, which won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Series in 2004. That year, he also had a small role, as Neil, in the Channel 4 series No Angels. In 2005, Andrews appeared in one episode of the ITV drama Wire in the Blood. The following year, he appeared in another BBC drama, Life On Mars, as DS Ray Carling. He then had roles in two BBC dramas, True Dare Kiss and The Street, in 2007. Andrews again played DC Carling in Ashes to Ashes, a 2008 spin-off series of Life on Mars. During the same year, he recorded voiceovers for Currys television advertisements. He had a guest role in 2010 on the BBC One series Waterloo Road. In 2011, Andrews appeared in: the BBC drama The Body Farm as Peter Collins; the BBC Two television film United, about the Manchester United "Busby Babes" team and the 1958 Munich air disaster; ITV's supernatural drama series Marchlands, playing one of the lead roles; and the five-part BBC One series The Case, in which he played the lead role as a man accused of murdering his terminally ill girlfriend. In November 2012, Andrews appeared in all four series of the BBC drama Last Tango in Halifax as Robert "Robbie" Greenwood. The following year, he portrayed Pete Lewis in the BBC show Being Eileen. Andrews played local hotel and barman Tom Asher in a 2015 episode of the popular series Midsomer Murders on ITV. In 2019, the actor joined the cast of ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He left the soap on 26 December 2024 when his character Will died of a heart attack. He has stated that he was not told about the character's demise. He narrated the Channel 5 documentary series, Our Great Yorkshire Life, in 2022. He also narrates the UK TV show Casualty 24/7 which centres on Barnsley Hospital.

Born

Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK on 6th August 1963

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Midsomer Murders
Tom Asher
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Casualty
Reg Summerston
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Soccer AM
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Chris Moyles' Quiz Night
Self
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Father Brown
Michael Negal
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Silent Witness
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Vera
Jonah Regan
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Last Tango in Halifax
Robbie
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Emmerdale
Will Taylor
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Wire in the Blood
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Ashes to Ashes
Ray Carling
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Life on Mars
Ray Carling
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Heartbeat
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Shameless
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My Wonderful Life
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No Angels
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Delicious
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GMTV
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Banana
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Buried
Barry Shiel
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Marchlands
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Blue Murder
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Frankie
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Clocking Off
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Jericho
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Missing: All Secrets Have a Price
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True Dare Kiss
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Between The Sheets
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This Morning
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My Summer of Love
Ricky
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Agatha and the Truth of Murder
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New Street Law
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Being Eileen
Pete Lewis
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The Moorside
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United
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Elfie Hopkins
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Dark River
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Wish 143
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Just Henry
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Missing
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Weekender
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The Navigators
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Kandahar Break
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Love + Hate
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Faith
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Torvill & Dean
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The Making of... Ashes to Ashes
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The Security Men
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The End of 'Life on Mars'
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