Adrian Turner
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 January 1977 Salford |
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| Height | 1.84 metres (6 ft 0 in) (2004) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80.5 kilograms (177 lb) (2004) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Stroke(s) | Breaststroke, medley | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Stockport Metro | |||||||||||||||
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Adrian Turner (born 21 January 1977) is an actor and former British Olympic swimmer, known also for winning silver and bronze medals representing England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
In 2010 he joined the cast of BBC drama The Cut in a recurring role as Coach Reynolds. In the same year he was cast in the lead role in Nice Shirt Films' international Vicks Sinex ad-campaign. In 2011 he will play Championship footballer Danny Deans in Big Balls Films/WeRInteractive's video-game 'I Am Playr'.
Turner represented Great Britain on numerous occasions during his swimming career principally the 2004 Athens Olympic Games where he swam both individual medley events and reached the semi-final stage of the 200m.
Two years earlier at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, he represented England in the 200m individual medley finishing in silver medal position in a time of 2:02.10 and the 400m individual medley finishing with bronze in 4:18.75.
After retiring from swimming following the 2004 Athens Olympic Games he attended the Universita` per Stranieri di Perugia in Italy, where he studied a post-graduate course in the history of Italian theatre from 2004-2005. Following this he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, completing a Masters in Text and Performance from 2005-2006. He has appeared in various film, TV and theatre roles since 2006.
He is the brother of TV presenter Beverley Turner and brother-in-law of Olympic rower James Cracknell. He remains a director of Total Swimming Ltd.
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- 1977 births
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- English swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Great Britain
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Alumni of the University of Manchester
- Living people
- English actors
- British swimming biography stubs
