Fraser Stuart Ayres (born 1980) is an English actor, best known for his role as Clint in the

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series '' The Smoking Room''. Ayres first joined the youth core at the

Haymarket Theatre The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre in Haymarket, London, Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in ...

Leicester Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area, and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a popula ...

and has done other television including ''Bella and The Boys'', ''Unconditional Love'', '' London's Burning'', '' The Vice'' and ''Trail of Guilt''. His stage work brought him Best Actor awards for his performance in ''The People Next Door'' and he has also starred in ''

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'', ''Telling Tales'', ''Four and Bluebird'', ''Workers Writes'', '' Vurt'', ''Sandman'', and the world premiere of Philip Ridley's '' Mercury Fur''. His film work includes ''Revenger's Tragedy'', ''Intimacy'', ''It Was An Accident'', ''Speak Like A Child'', '' Dinner For Two'', '' Rage'', and '' Kevin & Perry Go Large''. He played "Ray" in the

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drama

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'' West 10 LDN'' (also known as ''W10 LDN''). In 2007, Ayres appeared in '' Little Miss Jocelyn'' and in 2011, he starred in the one off

Christmas show, '' Lapland''. In 2015 Ayres appeared as Theo Bainbridge in the ITV series ''

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'' episode 17.2 "Murder by Magic". In 2016, Ayres joined the cast of the Talawa Theatre Company and Royal Exchange Manchester co-production of

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. ''

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'' praised "Fraser Ayres’s chillingly sociopathic Edmund, the amoral face of an emerging, modern calculating politics", while '"''

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'' said "Ayres is one of the most dangerously unstable Edmunds of recent times". The ''

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'' noted that "Fraser Ayres near re-writes the scale of Edmund's anger towards his illegitimate father the Earl of Gloucester (

Philip Whitchurch Philip Whitchurch (born 30 January 1951) is an English stage, film, and television actor. He is best known for playing Captain William Frederickson in three episodes of ''Sharpe'' between 1994-1997 and the role of Chief Inspector Philip Cato i ...

)". During 2017 he was cast in the part of Rich Collis, a menacing drug dealer and money launderer, in the long-running ITV continuing drama ''

Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' (colloquially referred to as ''Corrie'') is a British television soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres on a cobbled, terraced ...

''.

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* English male television actors English male stage actors Living people 1980 births Male actors from Leicester {{England-actor-stub