Liam Gerrard

Liam Gerrard is a British-Irish film, television and theatre actor. He is also an acclaimed voice-over artist and audiobook narrator. He is best known as the villain 'The Square Squire' in the Daytime Emmy Award winning show Odd Squad and for his BAFTA-nominated work: '' Walter Tull: Britain's First Black Officer'', ''Peterloo'' and ''Coronation Street''. To date he has narrated over 250 audiobooks.

Early life

Gerrard was born and grew up in Kingston upon Hull before moving to Dubai in his early teens studying at the English College Dubai, before studying at Lancaster University and training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Career

Gerrard made his film debut in the 2007 Hollywood film '' Death Defying Acts'' playing a reporter. The film also starred Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall and Saoirse Ronan. He made his television debut in 2008 appearing in the television series ''Hollyoaks''. He has appeared in numerous episodes of Coronation Street as the semi-recurring Fire Chief. Since 2024 he plays the Square Squire in the PBS / BBC children's television series Odd Squad. In 2008 he starred in 6 '' WKD Original Vodka'' comedy television commercials leading their ''have you got a WKD side?'' campaign. He has appeared in over 50 plays. In 2006 he appeared in two British Shakespeare Company productions; ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and ''Romeo and Juliet'' alongside Wayne Sleep, Mina Anwar, Sean Brosnan and David Davies. The productions toured the United Kingdom extensively and transferred to Ramme Gaard under the patronage of Petter Olsen. In 2008 he joined Northern Broadsides and toured the UK with a production of ''Romeo and Juliet''. He went on to play the juvenile lead in Theatre by the Lake's world premiere of Melvyn Bragg's ''The Maid of Buttermere''. He subsequently appeared in two more productions at Theatre by the Lake; '' Tom's Midnight Garden'' and ''The Night Before Christmas''. Other notable stage appearances include: ''Miss Julie'' the 4-hand David Eldridge adaptation, directed by Sarah Frankcom at the Royal Exchange;(also starring Maxine Peake, Joe Armstrong and Carla Henry), ''A Christmas Carol'' at both the Stephen Joseph Theatre and in later years at The Dukes, '' Jekyll & Hyde'' at the New Wimbledon Theatre, Will Scarlett in ''Robin and Marian'' at the New Vic Theatre. In 2015 he appeared in the Royal Lyceum Theatre (Edinburgh) production of ''Caucasian Chalk Circle''. The show received 4 and 5 star national reviews and won 4 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland. ''The Telegraph'' hailed the show 'A Triumph'. He is the youngest person to play the title role of Prospero in London theatre, in the 2013 Watford Palace production of ''The Tempest''. In 2014 he appeared in the 4-hander triptych piece ''Symphony'' written by Ella Hickson, Nick Payne and Tom Wells for Nabokov and Soho Theatre. The show won a Musical Theatre Network award for best new musical at the Edinburgh Fringe then toured the UK before transferring to London's West End. In late 2018 he played Tom Snout (Wall) in the Crucible Theatre production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.

Gerrard also works extensively as a voiceover artist and was nominated for a BAFTA for his film '' Walter Tull: Britain's First Black Officer.'' He has narrated over 250 audiobooks including the Tom Delonge series ''Poet Anderson''. In March 2024 he was nominated for an Audie Award in Hollywood for ''The Adventures of Finn MacCool & Other Irish Folk Tales'' which he edited and narrated. He narrates the Katherine Addison fantasy series The Cemeteries of Amalo.

Filmography (selected TV / film)

*''Odd Squad''
*''Coronation Street''
*''Peterloo''
*'' Walter Tull: Britain's First Black Officer''
*'' Death Defying Acts''
*''Butterfly''
*''Arch''
*''Cancer Scare''
*''Toolwire''
*''Hollyoaks''
*''Hollyoaks Later''
*''The Loft - post production''

Selected theatre

*''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' – ''Crucible Theatre''
*''Robin Hood'' – '' New Vic Theatre''
*''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' – '' Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh''
*''Symphony'' – ''Soho Theatre'', '' Nabokov''
*'' The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon'' – '' Oldham Coliseum Theatre''
*''A Christmas Carol'' – '' The Dukes (Lancaster)''
*''Miss Julie'' – ''Royal Exchange, Manchester''
*''The Tempest'' – ''Watford Palace Theatre''
*''Soul Man'' ''(Rigoletto)'' – '' Stephen Joseph Theatre''
*''Tom's Midnight Garden'' – '' Theatre by the Lake''
*''A Christmas Carol'' – '' Stephen Joseph Theatre''
*''The Night Before Christmas'' – '' Theatre by the Lake''
* ''The Maid of Buttermere'' – '' Theatre by the Lake''
*''Romeo and Juliet'' – '' Northern Broadsides''
*''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' – '' Derby Playhouse''
*''Romeo and Juliet'' – '' British Shakespeare Company''
*''Jekyll & Hyde'' – ''New Wimbledon Theatre''
*''The Beauty Queen of Leenane''
*'' Mrs. Warren's Profession'' – '' Judi Dench Theatre''

Audiobook selected bibliography

*''The Cemeteries of Amalo'' Trilogy by Katherine Addison
**'' The Witness for the Dead'' by Katherine Addison
**'' The Grief of Stones'' by Katherine Addison
**'' The Tomb of Dragons'' by Katherine Addison
*'' Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker'' series by Tom DeLonge
**'' Poet Anderson ...of Nightmares'' by Tom DeLonge
**'' Poet Anderson: ...In Darkness'' by Tom DeLonge
*''Pink Mist'' by Owen Sheers
*''The Seven Basic Plots'' by Christopher Booker
*''Shtum'' by Jim Lester
*''The Secret Life'' by Andrew O'Hagan
*''The Near East'' by Arthur Cotterell
*''Little Caesar'' by Tommy Wieringa
*''The Enigma of Reason'' by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber
*'' Rome: An Empire's Story'' by Greg Woolf
*''Palaces of Pleasure'' by Lee Jackson
*''The Infinite Desire for Growth'' by Daniel Cohen
*''The Demon in Democracy'' by Ryszard Legutko
*''Game of Thrones Psychology'' by Travis Langley
*''Deception of A Highlander'' Series:
**''Deception of A Highlander''
**''Possession of a Highlander'' by Madeline Martin
**''Enchantment of a Highlander'' by Madeline Martin
*''Brutal'' by James Alerdice
*''The Inspired Leader'' by Andy Bird
*''Human'' by Mark Britnell
*''Nicotine'' by Gregor Hens
*''The Hidden Village'' by Imogen Matthews
*''Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People'' by Timothy Morton
*''What We Think About When We Think About Soccer'' by Simon Critchley
*''Blackout'' by Sam Grenfall
*''DI Mariner Series'' by Chris Collett:
**''Deadly Lies'' by Chris Collett
**''Innocent Lies'' by Chris Collett
**''Killer Lies'' by Chris Collett
*''Half Life'' by Sarah Gray
*''Dangerous Skies'' by Brian James
*''Blood and Guts'' by Richard Hollingham
*''Descent: My Epic Fall From Cycling'' by Thomas Dekker (cyclist)
*''Beeronomics'' by Johan Swinnen and Devin Briski
*''Key Performance Indicators'' by David Parmenter
*''Billy Budd'' by Herman Melville
*''All For Love Series'' by Karen Ranney
**''To Wed and Heiress'' by Karen Ranney
**''To Love a Duchess'' by Karen Ranney
**''To Bed the Bride'' Karen Ranney (awaiting publication)
*''Trading With The Enemy'' by Hugo Meijer
*''The Ultimate Colin Wilson'' by Colin Wilson
*''To Fight Against This Age'' by
*''Strategy Builder'' by Stephen Cummings and Duncan Angwin
*''Build It – The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement'' by Glenn Elliott and Debra Corey
*''Eurotragedy'' by Ashoka Mody
*''The Open Society and Its Enemies'' by Karl Popper
*''This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else – Joy Division'' by Jon Savage
*''A Short History of Financial Euphoria'' by John Kenneth Galbraith

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Living people
English
Alumni of Lancaster University
Alumni of Grizedale College, Lancaster
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
English
English
English
British voice actors
English male voice actors
Male actors from Kingston upon Hull
Year of birth missing (living people)
British male voice actors