Hugo Speer Bio - Biography

Name Hugo Speer
Height
Naionality English
Date of Birth 17-March-1969
Place of Birth Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire
Famous for Acting
Hugo Speer is an English actor. He was born in Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Harrogate Grammar School. He studied acting at the Arts Educational School. He began his acting career appearing in TV series The Bill and Heartbeat, and played a minor role in the film Bhaji on the Beach before his first notable appearance as "Guy" in the film The Full Monty. He has gone on to appear in several films including Swing (1999), Deathwatch and The Interpreter (playing Nicole Kidman's brother). However, most of his work has been on TV, including sitcoms Men Behaving Badly, dramas Clocking Off, The Last Detective, Boudica (2003) and The Rotters' Club (2005), as well as the 2005 BBC adaptation of Dickens' Bleak House. In 2006, he appeared in the postal worker drama Sorted.

In 2008, he appeared alongside Martine McCutcheon in Echo Beach. In 2011 he played a repairman whose repairs "come to life" in Haven. Speer also provides narration for ITV1 series, Cops with Cameras, Channel 5's The Bachelor' and the BBC series Seaside Rescue. He appears as John Foster in the penultimate and final episodes of the fourth series of Skins. In 2002 he starred as Sergeant David Tate in the major film Deathwatch, a 2002 European horror film directed by Michael J. Bassett. Hugo Speer also narrates for a program currently aired on Discovery HD called Gold Divers.

In 2010 Hugo Speer made his directorial debut with the short film "MAM" starring Josie Lawrence, Paul Barber and Ronan Carter and written by Vivienne Harvey.

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