Trevor Cooper | |
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 Cooper in 2023 | |
| Born | 21 September 1953 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]
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]
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 2017-2020, 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.
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