Ian Kelsey’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British actor
Is Actor 
Television actor 
From United Kingdom 
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio 
Gender male
Birth 17 December 1966, York, United Kingdom
Age: 53 years
Star sign Sagittarius
Education
Guildford School of Acting

Ian Kelsey (born 17 December 1966) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Dave Glover in ITV Soap Emmerdale, Matt Brewer in Down to Earth, Patrick Spiller in BBC Continuing Drama Casualty and Howard Bellamy in daytime soap opera Doctors, and for his 6-year-long role as Detective Inspector Richard Mayne in the TV crime series Blue Murder alongside Caroline Quentin. He also played Vinny Ashford in ITV’s Coronation Street in 2016 and 2017.

Early life

Kelsey started his working life as an apprentice coach builder at York railway carriage works.

Kelsey trained at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York and graduated at the Guildford School of Acting.

Career

His first credited role was Narmco Clerk in the 1993 television mini-series Wild Justice. Since then, he has gone on to play Dave Glover in Emmerdale and had a cameo role in BBC TV comedy series Men Behaving Badly.

He joined BBC One medical drama Casualty in 1999, in a three-year stint as Dr. Patrick Spiller. During this period he also appeared in BBC1 drama Down to Earth as Matt Brewer (series 3-4) during 2003 and 2004. Kelsey has appeared in Touching Evil, Liam Taylor in Murder in Mind, and appearing in a major role for six years as DI Richard Mayne in crime drama Blue Murder. After leaving Casualty in 2006, Kelsey had acting roles in the BBC1 late-night drama Hotel Babylon and then in the ITV1 Sunday evening drama Where the Heart Is, playing Jack Clayton. This was his second role in the show as in 2005 he played a different character, Adam Miller. In late 2006 he appeared on stage in the London West End theatre production of Chicago. In 2008, he appeared on the BBC film Dustbin Baby.

On 3 September 2010 he guest starred in the BBC soap opera Doctors. Kelsey was also in Black Beauty as Joe Green (older). On 9 December 2009 Kelsey appeared on magazine show This Morning, talking to presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby about his upcoming stint in long-running ITV1 police drama The Bill. On 7 May 2012 it was announced that Kelsey would be joining Doctors as new practice manager Howard Bellamy, replacing departing long-running character Julia Parsons. He made his first appearance on 28 May 2012. Kelsey left medical drama on screen on 22 October 2015, to join Patrick Robinson in the UK touring stage production tour of The Shawshank Redemption.

Kelsey joined Coronation Street in August 2016 playing the part of Vinny, an acquaintance of the criminally villain Pat Phelan.

Stage career

Year Role Show Location Notes
2015 The Shawshank Redemption Andy Dufrene National Tour Touring from July 2015 until End of November 2015
2016 Legally Blonde Prof Callahan Curve, Leicester
You May Also Like

Alicia Villarreal’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Alicia Villarreal Net Worth: Alicia Villarreal is a Mexican-Latin singer who has a net worth of $12 million. Martha Alicia Villarreal Esparza (aka Alicia Villarreal) was born August 31, 1971 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. After her first performance as a youth at a church fundraiser, Villarreal participated in different bands in her native city, including the successful band Grupo Límite. Alicia Villarreal’s first solo album, Soy Lo Prohibido, was produced by Homero Patón and released by the Latin division in 2001. The album Orgullo de Mujer cracked the Billboard 200 and earned Villarreal a Grammy nomination. In 2004, she released her second solo album, Cuando el Corazón se Cruza, produced by her husband Cruz Martínez. The married couple also wrote several of the songs from the album together. In 2006, she released her third solo album, Orgullo De Mujer, along with the lead single Insensible a Ti. The single was the theme song for the telenovela Duelo de Pasiones, in which Villarreal also made her acting debut in the role of Raquel. After a nearly four-year hiatus, Villarreal announced she was in the studio recording her 4th solo album. La Jefa was released June 23, 2009 with Caso Perdido as lead single. The album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Albums and overall at No. 4 on its Latin Albums chart. Caso Perdido, as a single, did not achieve the same success as prior single releases. Alicia Villarreal married her first husband, record producer Ezequiel Cuevas, in 1991 and they divorced in 1993. She married Arturo Carmona on December 16, 1998 and they had a daughter, Melenie Aidée Carmona Villarreal, on April 10, 1999. The couple divorced in 2001. On October 10, 2009 Alicia Villarreal’s brother José Víctor Villarreal Esparza, then 36 years old, was killed in a car accident in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Read More