Jesse Birdsall

Jesse Birdsall
Born	13 February 1963 (1963-02-13) (age 48) Highbury, London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1976–present
Spouse	Gwyneth Strong (m. 2000–present) «start: (2000-07-15)»"Marriage: Gwyneth Strong to Jesse Birdsall" Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Birdsall)

Jesse Birdsall (born 13 February 1963) is a British actor, known in the UK for his starring roles in several high-profile, popular television programmes, particularly in Bugs (1995-99) as Nick Beckett and later in The Bill as a character named Ron Gregory, a convicted paedophile.

As a child, he attended the Anna Scher children's theatre school in Islington, and in his teens appeared in Nanette Newman's children's cooking programme, Fun Food Factory and in several television plays and series, usually with his trademark rockabilly look. He first came to wider public attention in the serial Annika in 1984, his first notable television role. He then subsequently appeared in the movie Wish You Were Here (1987), directed by David Leland and co-starring Emily Lloyd. Another notable television role was his portrayal of slick playboy Marcus Tandy in the infamous BBC1 soap opera Eldorado, which ran for just one year from 1992-93 and gained a reputation as one of the biggest television flops of all time. Nonetheless, the amount of coverage the programme received for its perceived low quality and lack of success would gain Birdsall much exposure, and from 1995 to 1999 he played one of the lead characters in another BBC1 programme, the successful futuristic action/adventure series Bugs.

More recently, he appeared in several episodes of the ITV police drama The Bill in 2003, and for the same network appeared as a regular in series 3-5 of the popular drama Footballer's Wives.

Birdsall has twice been in trouble with the police, being convicted of actual bodily harm after an altercation in 1981, and in 1999 being fined £1000 following an unprovoked attack on a fellow customer at a pub in London.^[1]

He has been married to Only Fools and Horses actress Gwyneth Strong since 15 July 2000, and they have two children.

He is the son of Penguin Books designer Derek Birdsall.

References

1. ^ TV actor escapes jail term

External links

• Jesse Birdsall at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Birdsall, Jesse
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Date of birth	13 February 1963
Place of birth	Highbury, London, England
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