Lee Ingleby

Lee Ingleby
Born	28 January 1976 (1976-01-28) Burnley, Lancashire, England United Kingdom
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present

Lee Ingleby (born 28 January 1976) is a British film, television, and stage actor.

He is perhaps best known for his roles as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus in the BBC Drama George Gently and as Stan Shunpike in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. He has also appeared as Sean O'Neill in Jimmy McGovern's The Street, and a recurring role in the second series of Early Doors as Mel's boyfriend, Dean. Another prominent role was his part in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, where he played a nervous Midshipman Hollom. In addition, he played a part in the final episode of Series One of Life on Mars, playing Sam Tyler's father Vic, and made an appearance in Spaced in 2001.

Early life

Ingleby was born in Burnley and lived in Brierfield, Lancashire, England during his early life, attending Edge End High School as did fellow actor John Simm. Both were taught by the same drama teacher who encouraged them into the professional theatre. He then studied at Accrington and Rossendale College before progressing to the drama school LAMDA in London.

Career

His first major role was as the young lead in the 2000 BBC miniseries Nature Boy, alongside Paul McGann. He played Smike in a 2001 television film version of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Also in 2001, he starred in and wrote the screenplay for the short film Cracks in the Ceiling, which he appeared in with his father, Gordon Ingleby.

In the 2002 theatrical release Borstal Boy, based very loosely on the life of Irish poet-activist Brendan Behan, Ingleby played a bully in an English boarding school for juvenile offenders.

He has also made one-off appearances in television programmes such as Hustle, Clocking Off, No Angels, Fat Friends, Jonathan Creek, Dalziel and Pascoe, Cadfael (Pilgrim of Hate) and The Bill. He has had supporting roles in films such as Gustave in Ever After alongside Drew Barrymore and as Hollom in the 2003 Peter Weir film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. In 2004, he had a small role in the Orlando Bloom vehicle Haven, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival but was not commercially released until 2006, following heavy re-editing. He also guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio adventure, Terror Firma.

In 2006 he appeared in Jimmy McGovern BBC TV series The Street where he played abusive husband Sean O'Neill alongide Christine Bottomley. Another project was the 2006 television adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, in which he played Mole. It also starred Bob Hoskins as Badger, Matt Lucas as Toad, and Mark Gatiss as Ratty, and has also appeared in a modernised BBC adaptation of Rapunzel for the Fairy Tales series.

Ingleby headed the cast of the 2008 three-part television crime drama Place of Execution as DI George Bennett as he was in the 1960s determined to close the case of a missing girl.

When not working in films and television, Ingleby remains active on the stage, where his credits include Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream, Alexander in Nicholas Wright's Cressida, and Katurian in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman.

He performed in the play Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek at the Cottesloe Theatre from September 2009 to January 2010 as Zygmunt.

In 2011 he appeared in the television series Being Human as Edgar Wyndham, a menacing vampire elder, and also in Luther as serial killer Cameron Pell.

Personal Life

Ingleby is single and lives in Clapham, South London.

Filmography

Film

• Ever After (as Gustave), 1998
• Borstal Boy (as Dale), 2000
• Cracks in the Ceiling (as Lad), 2001
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (as Midshipman Hollom), 2003
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (as Stan Shunpike), 2004
• Haven (as Patrick), 2004
• The Headsman (as Bernhard), 2005
• The Last Legion (as Germanus), 2007
• Post-It Love (as Boy), 2008
• Doghouse (as Matt), 2009

Television

• Soldier Soldier (as Kevin Fitzpatrick), 1997
• Killer Net (as Gordon), 1998
• In the Red (as Paul), 1998
• The Bill (as Ian in episode called "Puzzled"), 1998
• Cadfael (as Walter), 1998
• Junk (as Rob), 1999
• The Dark Room (as Bobby Franklyn), 1999
• Dalziel and Pascoe (as Kieron Cumming in episode called "The British Grenadier"), 1999
• Jonathan Creek (as David Spratley in episode called "The Three Gamblers"), 2000
• Nature Boy (as David), 2000
• Spaced (as 'Romford Thug Leader' in episode called "Gone"), 2001
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (as Smike), 2001
• Impact (as Peter Stamford), 2002
• Clocking Off (as Steven Dugdale), 2002
• Fat Friends (as Craig in episode called "Sweet and Sour"), 2002
• No Angels (as Nurse Carl Jenkins), 2004
• Blue Murder (as Roger Boersma in episode called "Up In Smoke"), 2004
• Early Doors (as Dean), 2004
• Hustle (as Trevor Speed) in episode called "The Lesson"), 2005
• Coming Up (as Gabriel in episode called "Karma Cowboys"), 2005
• Life on Mars (as Vic Tyler), 2006
• The Street (as Sean O'Neill), 2006
• The Wind in the Willows (as Mole), 2006
• George Gently (as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus), 2007 — 2011
• The Worst Journey in the World (as Birdie Bowers), 2007
• Rapunzel (as Jimmy Stojkovic), 2008
• Place of Execution (as DI George Bennett), 2008
• Marple: Nemesis (as Colin Hards), 2008
• Crooked House (as Ben) (2008)
• Being Human (as Edgar Wyndam) (2011)
• Luther (as Cameron Pell) (2011)

Radio

• Cry Hungary (as Peter Kovacs}, BBC Radio 4, 2006

• Radio Head, Up and down the dial of British Radio by John Osborne, Book of the Week, BBC Radio 4, 2009

• A Kind of Loving (as Vic Brown), BBC Radio 4, 2010

External links

• Lee Ingleby at the Internet Movie Database
• Lee Ingleby on Filmbug
• Daryn's Lee Ingleby Page