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Ciarán Griffiths

British actor (born 1983) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ciarán Joseph Griffiths (/ˈkɪərən/ KEER-ən; born 3 March 1983) is a British actor from Manchester, England. His roles in television include Gary Best in The Bill, Mickey Maguire in Shameless and Damon Hay in Coronation Street.

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Griffiths was born in Manchester to a Welsh father and Irish mother, and attended St Mary's RC High School in Astley near Leigh, between 1994 and 1999; it was during this time that he starred in Children's Ward at the age of thirteen.

Aside from his long-running roles in The Bill and Shameless, Griffiths has made guest appearances on Coronation Street, Clocking Off, Waterloo Road and numerous other programmes.[2]

In 2007, Griffiths starred alongside Conrad Westmaas in the short film The Visitor. He also appeared as "Psycho" in the film There's Only One Jimmy Grimble.

He also appeared in the British vampire film Dead Cert, which was directed by Steven Lawson,[3] and he appeared in Waterloo Road as Dylan Hodge in Series 6 in 2010–2011.

In 2016, he appeared in Vera on ITV in the episode "The Sea Glass", playing Steve Stonnall.

On New Year's Day 2018, Griffiths made a guest appearance in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, playing Milo.

In April 2018, Griffiths appeared in All I See Is You by Katherine Smith at Octogan Theatre in Bolton. The play is inspired by real accounts of homosexual life from the 1960s. It toured nationally, and to Dublin, Sydney and Melbourne in 2019.

In 2020, Griffiths appeared in an episode of the BBC One drama Casualty as Peter Hawker, a man who had suffered a brain injury.

Griffiths, who lives in Australia,[4][5] played Damon Hay in Coronation Street between December 2022 and March 2024. He previously played Dean Sykes on the soap in 2000.[6]

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