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Newsjack
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'' and ''
Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections
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''. Notably, he created CBBC series ''
Young Dracula
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'' with ''Museum of Everything'' colleague Danny Robins. He is married to comedy actor
Margaret Cabourn-Smith
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H ...
.
At the
2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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, he performed a one-man comedy show entitled ''Sins of the Grandfathers'', focusing on his grandfather's
Nazi
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past.
Notable TV roles include Brian in the
BBC Two
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situation comedy '' Lab Rats'' and the voice of the cat Marion in the
BBC Three
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adult puppet comedy '' Mongrels''. He has appeared in episodes of the BBC TV comedies '' Miranda'' and '' Psychoville''.
He starred alongside
Richard Herring
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,
Emma Kennedy
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Early life and education
The daughter of teachers,As It Occurs To Me''.
In 2012 he joined British soap ''
Hollyoaks
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'', playing new regular "cunning" solicitor Jim McGinn; he made his first appearance on 30 November. His character was killed by Fraser Black (
Jesse Birdsall
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