Dan Tetsell

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Dan Tetsell during the final performance of As It Occurs To Me in 2011

Dan Tetsell (born 2 July 1974) is a British actor, comedian and writer for radio, television and stage. He has worked on a number of projects, including The Museum of Everything , That Was Then, This Is Now , Newsjack and Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections . Notably, he created CBBC series Young Dracula with Museum of Everything colleague Danny Robins. He is married to comedy actor Margaret Cabourn-Smith. [1]

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At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he performed a one-man comedy show entitled Sins of the Grandfathers, focusing on his grandfather's Nazi past. [2]

Notable TV roles include Brian in the BBC Two situation comedy Lab Rats and the voice of the cat Marion in the BBC Three adult puppet comedy Mongrels . He has appeared in episodes of the BBC TV comedies Miranda and Psychoville .

He starred alongside Richard Herring, Emma Kennedy, and Christian Reilly on Richard Herring's weekly podcast, As It Occurs To Me .

In 2012 he joined British soap Hollyoaks , playing new regular "cunning" solicitor Jim McGinn; he made his first appearance on 30 November. [3] [4] His character was killed by Fraser Black (Jesse Birdsall) in January 2014.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998 Barking Various roles4 episodes
2000–01 We Are History Keiron12 episodes
2005Buried Alive
2007 Hyperdrive Robot 11 episode
2007 After You've Gone Fairground Barker1 episode
2007 Extras Extra1 episode
2008 Lab Rats Brian Lalumaca6 episodes
2009 The Omid Djalili Show Himself1 episode
2009 Miranda Naval Interviewer1 episode
2010 Five Daughters Journalist2 episodes
2010 The Old Guys Senior Consultant1 episode
2010 Vexed Graham1 episode
2010 The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret Paramedic1 episode
2010 Hotel Trubble False Vicar1 episode
2010–2011 Mongrels Marion (voice)
2011 Psychoville Photographer1 episode
2012 Skins Smithy1 episode
2012 Starlings Arthur1 episode
2012 Peep Show Robert Grayson3 episodes
2012–14 Hollyoaks Jim McGinn 111 episode
2013 Utopia Headteacher2 episodes
2013 The Mimic Chris Stubbs / Chris Potts3 episodes
2015 Humans Synth Salesman1 episode
2016 Red Dwarf XI Colonel Jim Green1 episode
2017 Not Going Out Channel Ferries employee1 episode
2018 Upstart Crow Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford 1 episode
2020 Truth Seekers Paul White1 episode
2021 The Nevers Phone Line Engineer1 episode
Sliced Geoff1 episode
HitmenMascot1 episode
Puppet AidMarion (voice)
The Toys That Built AmericaElliot Handler2 episodes
Hansel & Gretel: After Ever AfterDad

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References

  1. MCabourn-Smith (2 July 2014). "Happy Birthday beloved husband @tetsell!". twitter.com. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  2. Tetsell, Dan (5 August 2005). "The family man in a murderer's uniform". The Daily Telegraph . London, UK. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  3. "Clients: Dan Tetsell". DAA Management Ltd. 2016. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  4. Kilkelly, Daniel (20 November 2012). "'Hollyoaks': Mercedes McQueen trial shocks revealed". Digital Spy. Retrieved 30 January 2016.