Ray Fearon
Ray Fearon ( born June 1, 1967 in London, England ) is an English actor in film and television.
Life
Ray Fearon studied acting at Rose Bruford Training College of Speech and Drama in London. He joined as a theater actor in numerous theater productions at various UK venues. He has played at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, at the Contact Theatre and the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, at the Oxford Playhouse in Oxford, at the Barn Theatre in Kent and at the Almeida Theatre and the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
He regularly appeared at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and London. He played there including the Longaville in Love's Labour's Lost, the Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice ( 1994), the Paris in Troilus and Cressida (1996 ) and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (1997). In the season 1999/2000 he played with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre in London, and later in Stratford, the title role in Othello. It was in this role, the first black performer since the American singer and actor Paul Robeson, who had played Othello in 1959. On Pit Theatre in London in 2000, he played the Marquis of Posa in Friedrich Schiller's play Don Carlos. The Marquis Posa he played in 2000 then at the Harvey Theatre in New York. Later, the title role in Pericles followed ( in 2002 at the Roundhouse Theatre in London and later in Stratford ) and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2004 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield ).
Fearon also took roles in film and television. He here took over several continuous series roles, recurrent episode roles and guest roles. He has played in the British television series and soap operas As If, Waking the Dead - On behalf of the dead and Doctors. Particularly well known he was through his role as a mechanic Nathan Cooper in the long-lived soap opera Coronation Street.
On German television Fearon was together with Rebecca Immanuel to see A Summer in Cape Town in the ZDF - TV movie in 2010; he played the role of the South African photographer Gabriel Swart. In the ZDF - TV movie Beate Uhse - The Right to Love ( 2011), a film adaptation of the life of Beate Uhse, he played Jeff, the black lover of Beate Uhse.
His film roles include: the servant Francisco in Hamlet, directed by Kenneth Branagh, the centaur Firenze in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Jimi Oskar Roehler's road movie in Lulu & Jimi.
In 2006 he took together with Camilla Dallerup part in the fourth season of the British TV show Strictly Come Dancing, but was voted out by the viewers in week 6 by telephone voting.
Fearon has one daughter from his previous association with the actress Jane Gurnett. 2006/2007 he was associated with the model Elle Macpherson.