Adam Paul Harvey
Born (1984-07-07) 7 July 1984
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
OccupationActor

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 a number of films, including My Brother Tom (2001), Son of Rambow (2007), the short 96 Ways to Say I Love You (2014) and Mad to Be Normal (formerly entitled Metanoia, 2017), a biopic of R. D. Laing, alongside a cast including David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, Gabriel Byrne, David Bamber and Michael Gambon. He appeared in You, Me and Him, a comedy and This Weekend Will Change Your Life, a thriller, in 2018, and is due to appear in End of Term, a horror film, although as of September 2019, no release date has been announced.

In November 2013, he appeared in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot,[3] part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who. In November 2014, he had a role in Casualty. He has also appeared in two separate episodes of Doctors, playing different characters, firstly in November 2014 and, more recently, in September 2019.

Filmography

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2001-2003Night and DayTom Brake
2002BedtimeRalph HenshawSeries 2, episodes 2–6
2003StrangeMatthewSeries 1, episode 2: "Kaa-Jinn"
2003StarRalph
2003Mile HighSteve
2003Holby CityScott JohnstonSeries 6, episode 10: "Oedipus Wrecks"
2003–2005Girls in LoveRussell2 series
2003–2006Where the Heart IsNathan Boothe3 series
2006The BillAndy WoodwardSeries 22, episode 6
2007Dealing with Disasters: The Brixton NailbomberDavid Copeland
2013The Five(ish) Doctors RebootDirector (character)
2014DoctorsDuncan MedcalfSeries 16, episode 139: "One of Those Days"
2014CasualtyKieran BattenSeries 29, episode 12: "Losing Grip"
2019DoctorsMike WellsSeries 20, episode 165: "The Law of Unintended Consequences"
Film
Year Title Role Notes
2001My Brother TomGang boy
2007Son of RambowLawrence's Henchman
201496 Ways to Say I Love YouLuke
2017Mad to Be NormalPaul Zemmell
2018You, Me and HimNurse Paul
2018This Weekend Will Change Your LifeJim
TBAEnd of TermBiddletonAwaiting release
Stage
Year Title Role Venue
2011Charlie BangersDominicThe Lowry, Salford
Radio
Year Title Role Notes
2003The Rotters' ClubDougBBC Radio 4
Adverts
Year Title Role Notes
2009IntegrityPaparazzoHSBC

Personal life

He had a relationship with his Where the Heart Is co-star Georgia Tennant, 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 as well as his younger brother, the composer Mark 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

  1. ↑ "GRO birth index".
  2. ↑ "Waiting in the Wings Issue 4, February/March 2007" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2011.
  3. ↑ "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot", BBC programmes. Retrieved 26 November 2013
  4. ↑ "Genes Reunited".
  5. ↑ "Select Surname".
  6. ↑ "The Family History of Katherine Anne Sandison".



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