Steven Blakeley (born 28 November 1982 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire) is a British actor best known for his role as PC Geoff Younger in the British police drama Heartbeat.
Steven Blakeley was born in Chesterfield in 1982 and was brought up in the Derbyshire mining town of Bolsover. He attended local schools and was initially interested in pursuing a medical career, before turning his attentions to performing.
Blakeley started his career as a member of the Derby Playhouse Community and Youth Theatre companies, before going on to work professionally at Derby Playhouse. He went on to train at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and at the Athanor Theater Akademie in Germany. His theatre credits include Selling the Sizzle, Bare Words, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peter Pan, The Hypochondriac, Soap and Cold Turkey. As well as appearing in four series of ITV1's Heartbeat, he has performed in radio plays for the BBC and has appeared in several television commercials. In 2006, he was a nominee in the category of Best Newcomer at the National Television Awards.
Blakeley played Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Verges in Much Ado About Nothing with the British Shakespeare Company on their 2009 tour of the United Kingdom, Dublin, Norway and Prague.