Thomas Alfred Butcher (born 29 June 1963) is an English actor, known for his roles as PC Steve Loxton in the ITV procedural drama ''

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''.

Life and career

Butcher made his acting debut in an episode of the ITV soap opera ''

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'', playing a police constable in a 1988 episode. Then from 1990 to 1997, Butcher portrayed PC Steve Loxton in ''

'', returning for a one-off in 1999. He then went on to play Marc Eliot in the

soap opera ''

'' from 2001 to 2005. Later in 2005, Butcher portrayed the guest role of Tim Gaskill in fellow BBC medical series ''

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'', and '' Dangerfield''. In 2010, Butcher portrayed the lead role of Mike in the urban horror thriller '' Cherry Tree Lane''. Butcher married his former ''Doctors'' co-star Corrinne Wicks in November 2005. They got married at Berrow Court in

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, a location where they had filmed together on ''Doctors''. In 2010, she revealed that the pair did not like each other when they first began working together. However, after their on-screen characters got together romantically, it meant they worked more closely and began an off-screen relationship. Although happily married, the pair did not live together the first seven years of marriage: he lived in London, while she continued to live at her home in Birmingham. Wicks explained that initially, she liked her home too much to move.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Butcher, Tom 1963 births 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors English male soap opera actors English male television actors English male film actors Living people People from Stamford, Lincolnshire Male actors from Lincolnshire Actors from South Kesteven District