Colin Tarrant (14 June 1952 â€" 26 January 2012) was an English actor
best known for playing Inspector Andrew Monroe in ITV's The Bill
between 1990 and 2002.Tarrant was born in 1952 in Shirebrook,
Derbyshire, and studied for a degree in English and Drama at Exeter
University, then at the cutting edge of dramaturgy. He briefly worked
as a teacher before taking up acting, first at the Northcott Theatre,
Exeter and then with Medium Fair Community Theatre Company, Exeter
1975-77 (a company developed from the university drama department).
After leaving Medium Fair he was part of Peter Cheeseman's company at
the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent. He worked with Foco Novo, Shared
Experience, the RSC and the Leicester Phoenix Arts Centre. His first
major television role was that of Will Brangwen in the BBC miniseries
The Rainbow (1988), playing opposite Imogen Stubbs. A twelve-year run
in The Bill followed between 1990 and 2002, after which he made many
appearances on other television programmes as well as returning to the
theatre.In June 2005, he played Brian Clough in the Nottingham
Playhouse's production of Old Big 'Ead in the Spirit of the Man. The
play returned several times to the Nottingham Playhouse and played in
other venues across England. He followed this with the role of the
vagrant Davies in a Nottingham Playhouse production of Harold Pinter's
The Caretaker, his performance described by The Stage as "brilliant -
wild-eyed, twitchy, aggressive, over-defensive and ungrateful". He
starred as the 'Old Gent' in a new adaptation of The Railway Children
at the National Railway Museum. In 2009 he starred with Stephanie
Turner in Honeymoon Suite at the New Vic in Basford. Tarrant performed
in a nationwide tour of Calendar Girls which began in Chichester in
January 2010.
best known for playing Inspector Andrew Monroe in ITV's The Bill
between 1990 and 2002.Tarrant was born in 1952 in Shirebrook,
Derbyshire, and studied for a degree in English and Drama at Exeter
University, then at the cutting edge of dramaturgy. He briefly worked
as a teacher before taking up acting, first at the Northcott Theatre,
Exeter and then with Medium Fair Community Theatre Company, Exeter
1975-77 (a company developed from the university drama department).
After leaving Medium Fair he was part of Peter Cheeseman's company at
the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent. He worked with Foco Novo, Shared
Experience, the RSC and the Leicester Phoenix Arts Centre. His first
major television role was that of Will Brangwen in the BBC miniseries
The Rainbow (1988), playing opposite Imogen Stubbs. A twelve-year run
in The Bill followed between 1990 and 2002, after which he made many
appearances on other television programmes as well as returning to the
theatre.In June 2005, he played Brian Clough in the Nottingham
Playhouse's production of Old Big 'Ead in the Spirit of the Man. The
play returned several times to the Nottingham Playhouse and played in
other venues across England. He followed this with the role of the
vagrant Davies in a Nottingham Playhouse production of Harold Pinter's
The Caretaker, his performance described by The Stage as "brilliant -
wild-eyed, twitchy, aggressive, over-defensive and ungrateful". He
starred as the 'Old Gent' in a new adaptation of The Railway Children
at the National Railway Museum. In 2009 he starred with Stephanie
Turner in Honeymoon Suite at the New Vic in Basford. Tarrant performed
in a nationwide tour of Calendar Girls which began in Chichester in
January 2010.
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