Ricky Grover

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Ricky Grover
Born (1961-12-24) 24 December 1961[1]
Romford, East London, England, UK
Occupation actor, comedian

Ricky Glen Grover[2][3] (born 24 December 1961[1]) is an English actor and comedian. His stepfather was an armed robber and his mother a hairdresser.[4] Grover became a ladies' hairdresser and a boxer,[4] before becoming a stand-up comedian, actor and occasional television presenter. He is best known for his role as Andrew Cotton in EastEnders.

Career

Born in Romford, East London, Grover has appeared in television programmes including Red Dwarf,[4] Fist of Fun, 'Orrible,[5] The 11 O'Clock Show,[4] Honky Sausages and Black Books. He also provided the voice acting for the character of Yangus in the English language version of the PlayStation 2 game Dragon Quest VIII.

His 1996 short film Punch won the Silver Bear Award[5] at the Berlin International Film Festival.[6]

In 1998 he featured in the music video for the England song Vindaloo by "Fat Les".

In 2000, he won the Best Actor award at the Brest European Short Film Festival for his performance in Hungry (1998)[7] One of his most regular characters is "Bulla", a violent offender who originally featured on The 11 O'Clock Show who was based on former Kray associate Chris Lambrianou. Many elements of this character were adapted for the short lived and poorly received 'Orrible. He had a guest appearance in Top Buzzer. In 2011 he starred and co-wrote the feature length film Big Fat Gypsy Gangster with his wife, Maria Grover.

Since July 2003, Grover has written a column, "Raging Bulla", for the monthly magazine Loaded. He has also appeared as a bandit in a Virgin Mobile advert.

In 2006, Grover presented the documentary F*** Off I'm Fat as part of BBC Three's first "Body Image" season. In 2007 he presented a peak-time Tonight With Trevor McDonald report on obesity and a BBC Two episode of Grandad's Back in Business in which he mentored two stand-up comedians.

Since July 2009 he has played the part of Matron Hilary Loftus in the BBC Four medical 'docu-sitcom' Getting On, directed by Peter Capaldi. He had a role in the vampire film Dead Cert (directed by Steven Lawson)[8] and in the horror drama Tony (directed by Gerard Johnson).[9][10] which was released in UK cinemas on 5 February 2010[11][12]

Ricky Grover also had a role in an episode of Not Going Out in 2011, playing a drug dealing butcher. An article in The Sun newspaper on 11 June 2011 confirmed that Grover had joined the BBC soap EastEnders as Heather Trott's new love interest.[13]

Filmography

Video game roles

  • Dragon Quest VIII – Yangus

Books

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0344038/
  2. ↑ http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/all/results?recordCount=-1&forenames=ricky&_includeForenamesVariants=on&surname=grover&_includeSurnameVariants=on&fromYear=1961&toYear=1962&region=&county=&mothersMaidenName=&_useMothersMaidenNameAsSurname=on&sortOrder=RK%3Atrue&_performExactSearch=on&event=B&recordType=ALL&route=
  3. ↑ https://www.duedil.com/director/911508876/ricky-glen-grover
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Scotsman, 11th August 2002". Retrieved 2008-04-16. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "BBC website, 18th September 2002". Retrieved 2008-04-16. 
  6. ↑ "Phuket Gazette, 25 January 2008". Retrieved 2008-04-16. 
  7. ↑ "IMDB list of awards for Hungry". Retrieved 2007-09-23. 
  8. ↑ More cast, new poster for vampire film DEAD CERT
  9. ↑ Tony Sneaks into Slamdance 2010
  10. ↑ Slamdance '10: 'Tony' Makes Friends the Gruesome Way
  11. ↑ First Stills from Revolver Entertainment's 'Tony'
  12. ↑ Images Surface for Serial Killer Flick Tony
  13. ↑ The Sun (London) http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/soaps/3632058/Linda-Henry-bags-a-ride-in-a-bumper-car-with-EastEnders-newcomer-Ricky-Grover.html |url= missing title (help). 

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