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Paul Bradley is an English actor. He is best known for playing Nigel Bates in the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders from 1992 to 1998 and Elliot Hope in... the BBC medical drama series Holby City since 2005. Bradley was educated at St Benedict's School and the University of Manchester before joining the Royal Exchange Manchester repertory theatre company, formally opened by Lord Olivier in September 1976. In 1979, the artistic directorship was augmented by the appointment of Gregory Hersov. Bradley joined the company in the early 1980s. Bradley has appeared in many television series including the roles above and The Young Ones, The Bill, Red Dwarf, Bottom, My Family and Alas Smith and Jones. Bradley had a minor role in the multi award-winning 2002 film The Pianist. As a guitarist and vocalist he co-leads the group the Kippers with Stephen Warbeck, Academy Award winning composer of Shakespeare in Love. He has also worked as a guitarist for John Otway. Like many of his comedy peers from the 1980s, Paul has done, and continues to do, extensive charity work with Comic Relief in Africa.
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Ben Daniels is an English actor. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , he has taken on roles in numerous productions. On... television he has appeared in, among other shows, The Lost Language of Cranes , Conspiracy , Cutting It , Ian Fleming: Bondmaker , The Virgin Queen and The State Within . On the silver screen, Daniels has appeared mostly in supporting roles, including parts in The Bridge , Beautiful Thing , I Want You , Madeline and Doom . An exception was the 1997 independent film Passion in the Desert, based on a short story by novelist Honoré de Balzac. Daniels has had most success with theatre work. He was nominated for Best Actor at the Evening Standard Awards for 900 Oneonta , for Best Actor in the M.E.N. Theatre Awards for Martin Yesterday , and for Best Supporting Actor in the 15th Laurence Olivier Awards for Never the Sinner . He eventually won the latter award at the 25th Laurence Olivier Awards , as well as the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2001 Whatsonstage.
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