Ryan Early

Ryan Early (born 2 May 1979 Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom) is a British actor. He has appeared in various roles on TV and theatre but he is best known from his role as young Probationary PC Tom Nicholson in Heartbeat. He was trained at Drama Centre London. He has also appered in Will Youngs music video for Leave Right Now.

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Ryan has appeared in many theatre roles for The Royal Court Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, The Young Vic and The Barbican. After leaving Drama Centre London he went straight into a role at The Bush for Channel 4 and The Servant at the Lyric Hammersmith before spending the next couple of years on ITV's Heartbeat. After leaving the role of PC Tom Nicholson, Ryan went on to star in The Shakespeare's Globe Cupid and Psyche Season. Ryan then went on to play Charley Bates in Neil Bartlett's Oliver Twist at the Lyric Hammersmith which subsesquently toured the UK before returning to London. He has played several roles on television appearing in Casualty, Love Soup, Soup Kitchen, Doctors and several episodes of The Bill including the longest serving character Trudy Goodwin's (June Ackland) leaving story-line where she was reunited with Jim Carver. In 2006 Ryan Early played the romantic lead in The Knight of the Burning Pestle at the Barbican for The Young Vic with Rafe Spall. In 2007 Ryan went on to star in The Eleventh Capital at The Royal Court Theatre and returned to the Royal Court in 2008 to star in Mark Ravenhill's War and Peace for the Latitude Festival with Amanda Drew and Lesley Manville. In 2008 Ryan will be starring in All Quiet On The Western Front with James Alexandrou.