Reece Noi

Reece Noi
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999-present

Reece Noi (born 13 June 1988) is a British actor born and raised in Manchester Nephew of Ex England International and Professional Boxer Eric Noi. He is best known for playing Taylor Mitchell in the BBC school drama Grange Hill from 2004 to 2007. He is of Afro-Caribbean descent.

Career

Grange Hill led to Noi being much in demand, and he went on to secure roles in the BBC dramas Conviction and Doctors, where he played terminally ill teenager Sam.

Noi also had a recurring role in Emmerdale as Ryan Hayworth during 2007 and 2008.

In 2009, Noi joined BBC school drama Waterloo Road, playing bad boy Earl Kelly, who in the eighth episode of the series fatally shot his girlfriend Maxine Barlow (played by Ellie Paskell). He had appeared in one episode of Waterloo Road two years earlier, playing drug addict pupil Noel Parkin, who ironically attempted to get Maxine Barlow back on drugs after she had conquered her addiction.

He also starred in a Liverpool Gangster film My Kingdom. He made an appearance in the Channel 4 series Shameless Series 4 episode 5 as Debbie's Christian boyfriend, Luke Newman. As well as guest roles; playing Carl in BBC series Paradox and Tyler Simmons in ITV series The Bill in 2009.

Noi will be starring alongside Sophie Okonedo and Dougray Scott in ITV four part drama Father And Son, playing Sean O'Connor which will be shown on ITV in the spring of 2010.

Just been cast in the Philip Ridley play Moonfleece which opens in march 2010 at the east festival.

Filmography

• My Kingdom (2001), as The Boy
• The Virgin of Liverpool (2003), as Wesley Churchill
• Threads (2010), as Liam

TV

• Seeing Red (2000) as Wayne
• Real Men (2003) as Lester
• Grange Hill (2004-2007) as Taylor Mitchell
• Dalziel and Pascoe (2007) as Dean Bennett
• Shameless (2007), as Luke Newman.
• Doctors (2007).
• Emmerdale (2007-2008), as Ryan Hayworth.
• Waterloo Road (2009) as Earl Kelly
• Father And Son (2010) as Sean O'Connor

Radio Drama Craven (2009) Michael Chambers

Guest appearances:

• Outlaws (2004) as Ishanti
• Conviction (2004), as Darrell Milland
• New Street Law (2006).
• Casualty (2007) as Marlon Miller
• Paradox (2009) (at episode 5) as Carl.
• The Bill (2009) as Tyler Simmons.

External links

• Reece Noi at IMDb