Trevor Cooper

Trevor Cooper
Cooper in 2023
Born	(1953-09-21) 21 September 1953 (age 72) London, England
Alma mater	Drama Studio London
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1980–present
Relatives	Daisy May Cooper (niece) Charlie Cooper (nephew)

Trevor Cooper (born 21 September 1953) is an English actor. ^[1]

Background

Born 21 September 1953, ^[2] Cooper studied law at Kingston Polytechnic and graduated with a master's degree in law from the University of Warwick. He taught for two years at London South Bank University before becoming an actor training at the Drama Studio London. ^{[3] [4]} He is known for portraying, in his words, "bald fat blokes". ^[4]

Career

Having won a Carleton Hobbs Award in 1979, ^[5] Cooper had his first lead role in a 1980 radio production of The File on Leo Kaplan. ^{[6] [7]} Cooper appeared in the films The Whistle Blower and The Ruby in the Smoke . He is also known for playing Colin Devis on the television series Star Cops and Gurth in the 1997 BBC dramatisation of Ivanhoe . His other television roles include appearances in A Very Peculiar Practice , The Singing Detective , The Woman in Black , Our Friends in the North , Outnumbered , Ballot Monkeys , Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks , ^[8] Doctors , Kingdom , Trial & Retribution , The Bill , Spooks , Vikings , Casualty , Wizards vs Aliens , The Wrong Mans and Inside No. 9 ("The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge"). He has also worked on the Kaldor City series of audio plays, and had a part in Chimerica at the Harold Pinter Theatre 2013.

In 2014, Cooper portrayed Simeon Swann in the third series of the CBBC science-fantasy series Wizards vs Aliens . Cooper starred alongside his brother Paul in the 2017 BBC Three mockumentary, This Country . The show also starred, and was written and created by, his niece and nephew, Daisy May and Charlie Cooper. ^{[9] [10]}

From 2017 to 2020, Cooper portrayed Sergeant Aubrey Woolf in the BBC One drama, Call the Midwife , leaving after the second episode in Series 9. ^[11] From 2018 Cooper has revisited the character of ISPF Inspector Colin Devis in the continuing Star Cops audio dramas from Big Finish Productions.

References

1. Trevor Cooper – Movies and TV | LocateTV
2. Winwood, Julia [@actonamelie] (21 September 2021). "Happy birthday, Trevor!" (Tweet). Retweeted by Trevor Cooper @hatmangooner. Retrieved 21 May 2022– via Twitter.
3. "Exclusive Interview: Trevor Cooper • Doctor Who News • WhovianNet" . Retrieved 21 April 2020.
4. "Rough Justice: Interview with Trevor Cooper". www.kaldorcity.com.
5. "Who's won Radio Drama's acting prizes since 1953?" . Retrieved 18 September 2014.
6. "Personal Choice". The Times . 12 January 1980. p. 9.
7. "The File On Leo Kaplan". radiolistings.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 November 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
8. The Doctor Who Programme Guide By Jean-Marc, Randy Lofficier ISBN   0-595-27618-0 p. 210
9. "Behind the Kurtan". The Cotswolds Gentleman. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
10. Richardson, Jay (25 January 2017). "Country cousins". Chortle. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
11. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178430/ ^{[ user-generated source ]}

External links

• Trevor Cooper at IMDb
• Trevor Cooper at BFI