Adam Paul Harvey
| Adam Paul Harvey | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
7 July 1984 High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
Adam Paul Harvey (born 7 July 1984) is an English actor.
Early life
Harvey was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire,[1] the son of Andrea (née Foster) and Gordon Harvey, an engineer. He attended Sir William Ramsay School in Hazlemere, High Wycombe and in 1998 enrolled at JPA School of Drama and Dance, after which he began auditioning.
Career
His first professional role was in a commercial advertising the Nintendo 64.[2] His first regular television role was in ITV1's short-lived soap opera Night and Day, in which he played Tom Brake. Other regular roles were Ralph Henshaw in Bedtime in 2002 (alongside Alun Armstrong), Russell in CITV's Girls in Love (2003–05) and Nathan Boothe in four series of ITV1's Where the Heart Is. He played the lead in BBC One's docudrama Dealing with Disasters (about London Nail Bomber David Copeland).
He has acted in three films, My Brother Tom (2001), Son of Rambow (2007) and the short 96 Ways to Say I Love You (2014). He is due to appear in Mad to Be Normal (formerly entitled Metanoia), a biopic of R. D. Laing, alongside a cast including David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, David Bamber and Michael Gambon, as well as You, Me and Him, a comedy, and End of Term, a horror film, in 2017.
His most recent roles to date are The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot,[3] part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, on 23rd November 2013 and episodes of Doctors and Casualty in November 2014.
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Night and Day | Tom Brake | |
| 2002 | Bedtime | Ralph Henshaw | Series 2, episodes 2-6 |
| 2003 | Strange | Matthew | Series 1, episode 2: Kaa-Jinn |
| 2003 | Star | Ralph | |
| 2003 | Mile High | Steve | |
| 2003 | Holby City | Scott Johnston | Series 6, episode 10: Oedipus Wrecks |
| 2003-2005 | Girls in Love | Russell | 2 series |
| 2003-2006 | Where the Heart Is | Nathan Boothe | 3 series |
| 2006 | The Bill | Andy Woodward | Series 22, episode 6 |
| 2007 | Dealing with Disasters: The Brixton Nailbomber | David Copeland | |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Director (character) | |
| 2014 | Doctors | Duncan Medcalf | Series 16, episode 139: One of Those Days |
| 2014 | Casualty | Kieran Batten | Series 29, episode 12: Losing Grip |
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | My Brother Tom | Gang boy | |
| 2007 | Son of Rambow | Lawrence's Henchman | |
| 2014 | 96 Ways to Say I Love You | Luke | |
| 2017 | Mad to Be Normal | Paul Zemmell | Awaiting release |
| 2017 | You, Me and Him | Nurse Paul | In pre-production |
| 2017 | End of Term | Biddleton | In pre-production |
Theatre
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Charlie Bangers | Dominic | The Lowry, Salford |
Radio
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | The Rotters' Club | Doug | BBC Radio 4 |
Commercial
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Integrity | Paparazzo | HSBC |
Personal life
He had a relationship with his Where the Heart Is co-star Georgia Moffett, who played his on-screen girlfriend, Alice Harding. They ended the relationship in 2006, but remain good friends.
He has a sister and three half-brothers, and is, as are they, first cousin, once removed of Peter Darvill-Evans.[4]
He is related on his father's side to Edward Stone,[5] an eighteenth-century clergyman who discovered the active ingredient in Aspirin, as well as Irene Kathleen Stiles (1901-1964), who wrote romantic fiction under the pen name of Romilly Brent.[6]
References
- ↑ "GRO birth index".
- ↑ "Waiting in the Wings Issue 4, February/March 2007" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 9, 2011.
- ↑ "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot", BBC programmes, retrieved 26 November 2013
- ↑ "Genes Reunited".
- ↑ "Select Surname".
- ↑ "The Family History of Katherine Anne Sandison".