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Steven Hartley

Steven Hartley
is Bill Sikes

Bill Sikes is the club-carrying villain. Like Fagin he is a career criminal, but a notorious and feared one, prone to violent outbursts. Don't mention his name!

Actor Biography

Training: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Theatre includes: originally playing Bill Sikes in Sam Mendes’s acclaimed production for Cameron Mackintosh at the London Palladium in 1996 (and North American tour). Also, Dr Jake Houseman in Dirty Dancing (Aldwych), The Ballplayer in Insignificance (Northampton Theatre Royal and Brighton Theatre Royal), Dan in An Evening with Gary Lineker (Vaudeville and UK tour), Ysod in Smoke (Manchester Royal Exchange), Champ in Mill Fire (Bush and Riverside Studios), Steve Edwards in Babes in Arms (Plymouth Theatre Royal and UK tour), Tommy Boatwright in The Normal Heart (Colchester Mercury and UK tour), Jack Favell in Rebecca (York Theatre Royal, UK tour), and Annie, Trafford Tanzi, Piaf, Funny Peculiar, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Hay Fever and Tom Jones (all Colchester Mercury).
Film includes: Deserter, The Walker, Dog of Flanders, Columbus: The Discovery, Split Second, The Final Warning, Young Toscanini and Queen of Clubs.
Television includes: The Cut, Miss Marple: Murder Is Easy, Casualty, Strictly Confidential, Holby City, The Bill (series regular, National TV Awards Best Actor nomination), Doctors (series regular, British Soap Award Best Actor nomination), Trial and Retribution, Where the Heart Is, Bad Boys, Sharman, Rumble, The Governor, EastEnders (series regular), Zorro, Married with Children, Pie in the Sky, Press Gang, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Out of Order and Café Society.
Other work includes: Steven is also an award-winning voiceover artist. He is currently the station voice for Talksport Radio and countless documentaries, television and radio commercials. He has also formed his own production company, Flood Street Films, with two other actors and their first project is due to start filming in 2010.

 
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