Nick Patrick is a British actor, best known for playing the part of SRO (Station Reception Officer) Julian 'JT' Tavell, in the ITV

police procedural The police procedural, police show, or police crime drama is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasises the investigative procedure of police officers, police detectives, or law enforcement agency, law enforcement agencies ...

The Bill ''The Bill'' is a British police procedural television series, broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, "Woodentop (The Bill), Woodentop" (part of the ''Storyb ...

'' from 2005 to 2006. He also played the killer, Hamish Endicott in ''

Prime Suspect ''Prime Suspect'' is a British police procedural television series devised by Lynda La Plante. Broadcast on ITV between 1991 and 2006, it stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors in Greater Lo ...

'', Season 4 "Inner Circles". Nick grew up in

Whitstable Whitstable () is a town on the north coast of Kent, England, at the convergence of the The Swale, Swale and the Greater Thames Estuary, north of Canterbury and west of Herne Bay, Kent, Herne Bay. The town, formerly known as Whitstable-on-Se ...

Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...

. As a teenager he appeared in the short film ''Dead Cat'' directed by David Lewis and part funded by

Derek Jarman Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, poet, gardener, and gay rights activist. Biography Jarman was born at the Royal Victoria Nursing ...

, partly shot at

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, Dungeness, also starred

Genesis P-Orridge Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson; 22 February 1950 – 14 March 2020) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, visual artist, and occultist who rose to notoriety as the founder of the COUM Transmi ...

with the soundtrack by

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. He played the lead in ''Bad Baby'', written and directed by

Duncan Roy Duncan Roy (born 8 July 1960) is an English film director and producer, script writer, art director and television personality. Early life Roy was born on 8 July 1960, in Whitstable, Kent, England to Frances Elizabeth Spark and Kuros Khazaei. F ...

at the Penny Theatre,

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. He trained at the

Drama Centre London Drama Centre London (often abbreviated as Drama Centre) was a British drama school in Kings Cross, London, King's Cross, London, where it moved in 2011 after a major reshaping of the University of the Arts London. It was part of Central Saint ...

. His TV credits include ''

Cadfael Brother Cadfael is the main fictional character in a series of historical murder mysteries written between 1977 and 1994 by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter under the name Ellis Peters. The character of Cadfael himself is a Welsh Benedic ...

'', ''

Kavanagh QC ''Kavanagh QC'' is a British television series made by Central Television for ITV between 3 January 1995 and 25 April 2001. All five series are available on DVD in both Region 1 and Region 2. Plot The series starred John Thaw as barrister J ...

'', '' Rough Justice'', ''

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'', ''The Courtroom'' and ''Emmerdale''. Theatre credits include ''

The Grapes of Wrath ''The Grapes of Wrath'' is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

'' directed by

Michael Rudman Michael Rudman (February 14, 1939 – March 30, 2023) was an American theatre director. Early life and education Rudman was born in Tyler, Texas, on February 14, 1939. He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1956, and four years later ...

at the Crucible Sheffield, ''

Single Spies ''Single Spies'' is a 1988 double bill written by the English playwright Alan Bennett. It consists of '' An Englishman Abroad'' and '' A Question of Attribution'', the former an adaptation of a television play the author had written for the BBC i ...

'' directed by Michael Simpson at the Watford Palace, and Jonathan Kemp's ''The Razorblade Cuckoo'' directed by Bob Wolstenholme at the Holborn Centre for Performing Arts. Films include '' Loaded'' directed by Anna Campion, and ''Two Days Nine Lives'' directed by

Simon Monjack Simon Mark Monjack (9 March 1970 – 23 May 2010) was an English screenwriter, film director, producer and make-up artist. He was the husband of Brittany Murphy. Early life Monjack was born on 9 March 1970 in Hillingdon, Middlesex, to a Jews ...

. Nick has collaborated on two further shorts with Anna Campion, ''Inertia'' and ''Bipolar''. He recently completed Paul Kindersley's latest feature film "The Burning Baby" and is currently working on a film project "L'homme au Foyer", started 10 years ago, filming 2 weeks every summer.

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* British male television actors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Male actors from Kent Actors from Whitstable {{UK-tv-actor-stub