Calvin Dean (born 21 May 1985) is an English screen and stage actor.
Early life Dean was born in Truro, Cornwall. He grew up in Polruan, Cornwall, attending Polruan Primary School and later Fowey Community College. His mother, Lorraine, worked as a teaching assistant and nanny, and his father, Graham, worked for a local harbour commissioner and was a lighthouse keeper. He heard about the National Youth Theatre while in secondary school. After successfully auditioning, he stayed with the company from 2001 to 2005.Profile - Calvin Dean Mandy. Retrieved on 2009-06-15. During this time, he appeared in productions including The Threepenny Opera, Murder in the Cathedral and Hanging Around at the National Theatre. From 2004 to 2007, he trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, graduating with a BA (Hons) in Acting.
Career Dean made his professional debut in The Duchess (2008), opposite Keira Knightley. He played Darren Mullet, his first lead role, in the comedy-horror film Tormented (2009). Dean received critical acclaim for his performance in Tormented. Sky Movies said: "Best of the bunch is Dean as the put-upon Darren Mullet, imbuing his tragic monster with a touch of Boris Karloff pathos in the online clips of his living torment, and coming across quite menacing when returning to slice up his victims."Sky Movies - Review - Tormented Retrieved on 2009-05-28.
Dean's television credits include the Neil Gaiman penned "Cyberman" episode of Doctor Who alongside Warwick Davis, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Jason Watkins. This was the first time Dean and Matt Smith had worked together since being members of The National Youth Theatre together in 2003. Dean's other credits include Demons, Casualty, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Law & Order: UK and the BBC drama Dancing on the Edge written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff.
Dean starred in Kneehigh Theatre's Fup in 2016, Simon Harvey's adaptation of a novel by Jim Dodge, it received a four star rating from The Times, and was performed at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall in 2016. Dean will return to the Kneehigh in 2018 for a UK tour of Fup.
Dean won Best Actor at the Eindhoven Film Festival, Brussels Short Film Festival and the Hyperwave Film Awards in Los Angeles for his work in the short film Make Aliens Dance.
Dean appears in the Russell T. Davies Channel 4 drama It's a Sin and plays young Ted in the BBC drama Strike.
Filmography
+ Filmography Year Title Role Notes2008The DuchessDevonshire House ServantFilm2008CasualtyMichael TreaverTV2008DemonsMouse ManTV2009Just For The RecordCrackersFilm2009The Sarah Jane AdventuresChris (Slitheen)TV2009PlaystarChrisFilm2009Suicide KidsSubzeroLead2009TormentedDarren MulletLead2011Law & Order: UKBarryTV2012Dancing On The EdgeFrankTV2012PassengersRogLead2013TeamXtremeSlimpossible LeaderTV2013Don't MoveGrahamShort Film2013Doctor WhoHa-HaTV (Series 7, Episode 12)2015HowlPaul the drunken football loutFilm2015FracturedErrolFilm2018Make Aliens DanceMurphyFilm2018TraumaDave SaundersTV2021It's a SinCliffordTV2022Elden Ring Boc/Nomadic merchant 2Video game2022StrikeYoung TedTV
Awards and nominations +YearAwardCategoryWorkResult2018Brussels Short Film FestivalBest ActorMake Aliens Dance 2018Eindhoven Film FestivalBest ActorMake Aliens Dance 2019Hyperwave Film AwardsBest ActorMake Aliens Dance
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