Alexander Ferns (born 13 October 1968) is a Scottish actor and television personality. His role in EastEnders as Trevor Morgan from 2000 to 2002 was described as "Britain's most-hated soap villain". He also played the role of Rick Harper in the BBC Scotland soap opera River City between 2017 and 2018. For his performance as coal miner Andrei Glukhov in the 2019 miniseries Chernobyl he received a BAFTA Scotland Award.
Alex Ferns is the oldest of three children of his family, who left Scotland for South Africa, when Ferns was eleven years old.[1] The family took up residence in Secunda, where Ferns' father worked as an electrician during the construction of a power plant.[1] After he finished school, he joined the South African Defence Force and fought in Angola between 1987 and 1989.[1] Afterward he studied drama at the University of Cape Town.[2] In the mid 1990s, he moved back to the United Kingdom and started his career in acting.
His theatrical work includes the role of the "tapeworm" (a hallucination) in I.D., a play about Dimitri Tsafendas and his assassination of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the 2008 national tour of Agatha Christie's murder mystery And Then There Were None, and Little Shop of Horrors as the Dentist. In 2011, he took the role of Scottish gangster Jimmy Boyle in the play about his life, The Hardman, during a Scottish tour to positive reviews.[4]
In 2013, he starred as Lee in True West at Glasgow's Citizen's Theatre. In 2014, he starred in 24: Live Another Day. In 2016, Ferns starred in ITV's Vera series 6 episode 4 ("The Sea Glass") as Michael Quinn. He also appeared in the BBC's Wallander series 4 episode 1 ("The White Lioness") as Axel Hedeman.
He portrayed the leader of Tula coal miners Andrei Glukhov in the HBO 2019 miniseriesChernobyl. For this performance, he received a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor in Television.[6]
Ferns appeared in Netflix's The Irregulars (2021) as Vic Collins. He portrayed Gotham Police Commissioner Pete Savage in the superhero film The Batman (2022). Also in 2022, he appeared in the Disney+ series Andor as Sergeant Linus Mosk.
In 2024, Ferns appeared as Aaron Moy in the BBC One thriller series Nightsleeper.[7][8]
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