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Danny Dyer
Dyer at the Gumball 3000 Rally, London 2007
Born
Daniel John Dyer
Years active1993 – the present
PartnerJoanne Mas
Websitehttp://www.dannydyer.co.uk/

Danny Dyer (born 24 July 1977) is a notable English actor and television presenter. He is also chairman of Greenwich Borough, a non-league football team.[1]

Biography

Danny Dyer was born in Canning Town, an area of East London, where he still lives[2] with his longtime girlfriend, Joanne Mas, whom he has dated since he was 14[3][4]; they have two daughters, Dani and Sunnie.[5]

A lifelong player and fan of football, in late December 2007, Dyer became the chairman of Kent League's Greenwich Borough in South East London, appointed by fellow actor Tamer Hassan, president of the Kent League football club, stating: "I just love football and the chance of being involved with a club is like a dream come true."[1] He played for his local team, West Ham, on Sky One's Premier League Allstars.

Acting career

Television

Dyer was discovered at his local Sunday school by an agent who auditioned him for the part of Martin Fletcher in the Granada Television series Prime Suspect 3 (1993), beginning his acting career at 14.[2]

He also appeared on television in episodes of Cadfael (1994), A Touch of Frost (1995), Loved Up (1995), Thief Takers (1996), and Soldier Soldier (1997).[2][6]

His many other television roles include appearances in the 2003 Channel 4 drama Second Generation, directed by John Sen[6]; as Malcolm, main character Michelle's stepfather, in Skins[7]; as a football player in the second series of Hotel Babylon on BBC television; and as Matt Costello in what was supposed to be the pilot episode for Breathless,[6][8] a BBC two-part television series in development from BBC Northern Ireland, renamed first "Blood Rush" and then Kiss of Death, when it premiered on BBC One as a one-part drama on 26 May 2008.[9]

Beginning in 2007, Dyer became the presenter of The Real Football Factories and The Real Football Factories International, a popular TV documentary series on Bravo, for which he travels, in the former throughout the United Kingdom and in the latter throughout the world, to meet and interview football club fans and hooligans.[citation needed]

Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men, "a gritty and hard-hitting documentary series that sees him venturing into the dark depths of the British underworld and hunting down some of the most notorious and feared men in Britain today," began airing on Bravo in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2008.[10][11]

Film

Dyer's first film role was in Human Traffic (1999).[12] His subsequent movie work includes Mel Smith's High Heels and Low Lifes (2001) and starring roles in Mean Machine (2002) and in all four films by the British film director Nick Love: Goodbye Charlie Bright (2001); The Football Factory (2004); The Business (2005); and Outlaw (2007).[12] Among other film roles, he also appeared as the character Steve in Christopher Smith's Severance (2006); as Hayden in Adulthood (2008); and as himself in the feature documentary Tattoos: A Scarred History.[citation needed] In 2008 he finished filming his roles as Pete and Tom in City Rats and 7 Lives, respectively.[13]

Daniel Mulligan-Tavistock Dyer is set to appear in an upcoming BBC4 period drama which he plays an over bearing single farther to his twelve children. The program concentrates around the hardships of life for "nawty cockney monkeys" in the 16th Centuary, a time when a walk with a wide gait was considered which craft and having a proper tear-up was heresy.

The drama entitled "Is one mugging me off Sire" has recieved widespread critical aclaim especially from his fat mum who described the series as "ooo he does love his custard"

Theatre

Dyer has performed on stage, most notably in two plays written and directed by 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter: as the Waiter in the London première of Celebration (2000), at the Almeida Theatre, which transferred to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York City, as part of the Harold Pinter Festival held there in July and August 2001[14]; and as Foster in the revival of No Man's Land (1975), at the Royal National Theatre, in London, during 2001 and 2002.[15][16] In March 2008 he played Joey in a revival of Pinter's The Homecoming (1964), directed by Michael Attenborough, at the Almeida Theatre, in London.[17] He also performed in Peter Gill's play Certain Young Men (1999) in London.[18]

Selected other work

Dyer is the voice of Kent Paul in the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004).[18]

He also appears in The Twang's 2007 video for Two Lovers.[19]

Selected television work (TV-ography)

Filmography

Stage plays

Video games

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Danny Dyer Joins Real Football Factory" (Web). News Shopper Online. Newsquest Media Group (A Gannett Company). 2007-12-23. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
  2. ^ a b c "Biography" (Web). DannyDyer.com. Danny Dyer. Retrieved 2008-10-11. (Includes a menu of hyperlinked sections on Dyer's career accomplishments.)
  3. ^ "Danny's Lil' Bit of Wife Strife" (Web). Sun Online. News International. 2008-04-17. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  4. ^ "Danny Dyer Forgiven by Missus After Lily Allen Bender" (Web). Mirror.co.uk. Trinity Mirror. 2008-04-25. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
  5. ^ Nadia Brooks (2006-08-16). "Dyer to Wed Sweetheart" (Web). Sun Online. News International. Retrieved 2006-09-18.
  6. ^ a b c "Television" (Web). DannyDyer.com. Danny Dyer. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  7. ^ "Dyer Guest Starring in Skins Series" (Web). Radio Times. BBC Magazines, Ltd. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
  8. ^ "Member Profile: David Bowen: Biography". Film Network. BBC.co.uk. 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  9. ^ "Louise Lombard, Lyndsey Marshal and Danny Dyer Star in Kiss Of Death – A New Crime Drama for BBC One" (Web) (Press release). BBC Press Office. 2008-05-21. Retrieved 2008-10-25. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  10. ^ Danny Dyer (2008-10-20). "Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men" (Video clip interview). Virgin Media. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
  11. ^ "Only TV Can Show You a Pouch from Your Couch" (Web). Telegraph.co.uk. Telegraph Media Group. 2008-10-25. Retrieved 2008-10-25. First up [on the series] was Stephen 'The Devil' French in Liverpool, who robbed drug dealers, which is known as 'taxation'. ... Inconveniently, the devil had reformed. 'I got the feeling he was on his own journey,' Danny said. He was seen giving a respectful lecture to academic criminologists on his new anti-gun campaign. He is trying to counter the massive growth in Liverpudlian gun use, which arose largely so that people could protect themselves from him. ... Danny did his best to show his own bravery in being around this man. 'My bum is flappin' a little bit,' he informed us. Eventually the Devil re-enacted what he would have done when he was a hard man. ... 'This is the first time a real-life taxation scenario has ever been shown on TV,' said Dyer.
  12. ^ a b "Film" (Web). DannyDyer.com. Danny Dyer. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
  13. ^ "Welcome" (Web). DannyDyer.com. Danny Dyer. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
  14. ^ "Celebration: Premiere" (Web). HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
  15. ^ "No Man's Land (2001): Royal National Theatre, London" (Web). HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
  16. ^ "Danny Dyer: Biography" (Web). filmbug.com. Filmbug (Misja.com). 2000-01-01. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
  17. ^ "Pinter's Homecoming at Almeida from 31 Jan 2008" (Web). London Theatre Guide – Online. Londontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-10-11. [Corrected title.]
  18. ^ a b "Other Work" (Web). DannyDyer.com. Danny Dyer. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
  19. ^ "Danny Dyer Joins Twang Gang" (Web). Sun.co.uk. News International. 2007-07-27. Retrieved 2008-10-25.

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