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Oliver Cotton was born in London and trained at the Drama Centre London. Stage: As an actor Oliver Cotton has played leading roles in over thirty productions at The Royal National Theatre and worked extensively at the RSC, the Royal Court and in London’s West End where he has starred in such plays as The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, Children of A Lesser God by Mark Medoff, Benefactors by Michael Frayn, An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, Life x 3 by Yasmina Reza, and Brand by Ibsen. He has appeared in hundreds of TV plays, serials and series including: The Borgias (Cesare Borgia), David Copperfield, The Year of The French, The Party, Redemption, Poirot, The Camomile Lawn, Westbeach, Sharpes Battle, Rhodes, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Innocents, Judge John Deed, Inspector Lynley, Waking The Dead, MIT, Beastly Games, Sensitive Skin (series 1 & 2), Midsomer Murders, The Commander, Margaret.. His films include: Here We go Round The Mulberry Bush, The Day Christ Died, Firefox, Oliver Twist, The Sicilian, Eleni, Hiding Out, Christopher Columbus, Son of the Pink Panther, The Innocent Sleep, Phoenix Blue, The Opium War, Beowulf, Baby Blue, The Dancer Upstairs, Shanghai Knights, The Bone Collector, Rain Dogs, Colour Me Kubrick, Pope Joan.

 

Oliver also writes for both stage and screen.  

His plays include:

WET WEATHER COVER: Kings Head and Arts Theatre, London, 2011

DAYTONA: Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 2014

DESSERT: Southwark Playhouse, 2015

 His recent writing for TV includes:

 THE ENGLISH GAME, Netflix, 2019

He is represented at United Agents by Nicky Stoddart for theatre writing and by Charles Walker and Christian Oganbanjo for Television and Screenwriting

 

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A TOUCH OF FROST

2009

ITV

DIAMOND GEEZER III

2009

ITV

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DAYTONA

2013

Park theatre, London

UK premiere. Transferred to Theatre Royal Haymarket 1st June 2014. Starring Maureen Lipman & Harry Shearer.

WET WEATHER COVER

2010

Kate Fahy

UK premiere. Transferred to the Arts Theatre 7th April 2010

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