Dominic Coleman
Dominic Coleman
Dominic Andrew Coleman (born 29 January 1970 in Solihull, Warwickshire) is a British actor, born in the Shirley district of Solihull, who has starred in Stupid!, Sex Lives of the Potato Men and more recently in The Cup as Vincent Farrell. In 2003 he presented the 2003 series The People's Book of Records. He also appeared in an episode of My Hero as the shady journalist Kevin Trent in the episode "Shock, horror!" He also provides the voice of Arthur Weasley in various Harry Potter video games. He appeared on TV as a customer in the BBC Comedy series, Miranda and reprised his role for episodes in 2013 and 2015. He also starred as Nan's husband Jake in Nan's Christmas Carol, he was introduced as the character 'Gaz' in ITV's Coronation Street. In 2012 Coleman played Neville in the Sky1 sitcom Trollied. 2013 saw Coleman playing the role of Jamie in Heading Out. In 2014, Labour supporter Coleman starred as David Cameron in the Labour Party (UK) Party Political Broadcast, The Un-Credible Shrinking Man. He recently in 2016 appeared as a mechanoid called Butler in the TV comedy Series Red Dwarf. Coleman features in the BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch series 'Recorded for training Purposes', and was also in the music video for Groove Armada's If Everybody Looked The Same. He starred in episode 6 of Hank Zipzer playing Mick McKelty. Recently appeared in the BBC one-off remake of Porridge as Mr Braithwaite the placid prison officer. He trained at Leeds University's Bretton Hall where he studied a BA (hons) in Dramatic Arts. He lives in London with his wife and children.