Erkan Mustafa (born 14 May 1970) is a British actor and

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Turkish Cypriot Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( or ; ) are so called ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus. Turkish Cypriots are mainly Sunni Muslims. Following the Ottoman conquest of the island in 1571, about 30,000 Turkish settlers were given land onc ...

descent, most noted for the part of Roland Browning in ''

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'' (

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1982–1987). Other parts include "Enormous Orphan" in '' Blackadder's Christmas Carol'' (1988) and "Otto" in ''

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'' (1991). In 1993

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's '' The Word'' tracked him down to a friend's record shop where he was helping out. He appeared on '' This Mornings Grange Hill reunion in 1998. In 2005 he appeared in the reunion programme '' Bring Back Grange Hill''. Mustafa occasionally works in television with fellow Grange Hill star Lee MacDonald including as a presenter for '' E4 Music''. In October 2009, Mustafa hosted a ''Grange Hill'' cast reunion at ''Sound'' nightclub in London's Leicester Square. He acted in The All-Nighter, a 10-minute short film released in 2018, along with Ronald Forfar and

Martin Hancock Martin Hancock (born 10 January 1970) is an English actor best known for his roles as Spider Nugent, Geoffrey "Spider" Nugent in the English soap ''Coronation Street'' (between 1997 and 2003 and again from 2022 and 2023) and as Reg Lund in ''Ho ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mustafa, Erkan 1970 births Living people English male child actors English male television actors English people of Turkish Cypriot descent Male actors from London 20th-century English male actors