Dean Andrews

Born in 1963 in Rotherham, Andrews went to Sitwell Junior School on Grange Road and Oakwood Comprehensive School on Moorgate Road. He went to school with Top Gear presenter James May.[http://www.topgear.com/content/features/stories/2008/05/stories/01/2.html Q&A with Dean Andrews feature - 2008 - Features - Top Gear] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220171418/http://www.topgear.com/content/features/stories/2008/05/stories/01/2.html |date=20 February 2009 }}{{cite web|last1=Grieveson-Smith|first1=Jess|title=Inside Emmerdale's Dean Andrews' life with fiancee Helen and grandchildren|url=https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/inside-emmerdales-dean-andrews-life-22827050|website=Leeds Live|date=21 January 2022}}

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Dean Andrews started off as a mainstay of cruise ships as a talented entertainer and singer. He was discovered by film director Ken Loach, who was looking for people from Yorkshire to appear in the 2001 film, The Navigators.{{Cite web |title=FolkWorld #67: Midsomer Murders |url=http://www.folkworld.eu/67/e/midsomer.html |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=www.folkworld.eu}} He then went on to play Barry Shiel in the Channel 4 drama Buried, which won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Series in 2004. That year, he also had a small role, as Neil, in the Channel 4 series No Angels.

In 2005, Andrews appeared in one episode of the ITV drama Wire in the Blood. The following year, he appeared in another BBC drama, Life On Mars, as DS Ray Carling. He then had roles in two BBC dramas, True Dare Kiss and The Street, in 2007. Andrews again played DC Carling in Ashes to Ashes, a 2008 spin-off series of Life on Mars. During the same year, he recorded voiceovers for Currys television advertisements.[http://www.deanandrews.co.uk/blog.html Dean Andrews official blog] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804032033/http://www.deanandrews.co.uk/blog.html |date=4 August 2009 }}, 2 November 2008 He had a guest role in 2010 on the BBC One series Waterloo Road.

In 2011, Andrews appeared in: the BBC drama The Body Farm as Peter Collins; the BBC Two television film United, about the Manchester United "Busby Babes" team and the 1958 Munich air disaster; ITV's supernatural drama series Marchlands, playing one of the lead roles; and the five-part BBC One series The Case, in which he played the lead role as a man accused of murdering his terminally ill girlfriend.

In November 2012, Andrews appeared in all four series of the BBC drama Last Tango in Halifax as Robert "Robbie" Greenwood. The following year, he portrayed Pete Lewis in the BBC show Being Eileen.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2012/09/bbc-one-orders-follow-up-to-christmas-comedy-lapland/|title=TV BBC One Orders Follow Up To Christmas Comedy 'Lapland', Stephen Graham's Role Recast|date=13 September 2012|work=TV Wise|first=Patrick|last=Munn|access-date=21 December 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/lapland-series.html|title=BBC One commissions new six-part comedy series, Lapland |date=4 October 2012|work=BBC|publisher=BBC Online|access-date=21 December 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/06/being-eileen.html|title=Being Eileen|work=BBC|access-date=29 January 2013}} Andrews played local hotel and barman Tom Asher in a 2015 episode of the popular series Midsomer Murders on ITV. In 2019, the actor joined the cast of ITV soap opera Emmerdale. He left the soap on 26 December 2024 when his character Will died of a heart attack. He has stated that he was not told about the character's demise. He narrated the Channel 5 documentary series, Our Great Yorkshire Life, in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/emmerdale-actor-cast-great-yorkshire-22671456|title=The Emmerdale actor in the cast of Our Great Yorkshire Life on Channel 5 and his life off screen and Robert De Niro link|date=6 January 2022|work=LeedsLive|first=Jess|last=Grieveson-Smith|access-date=26 July 2024}} He also narrates the UK TV show Casualty 24/7 which centres on Barnsley Hospital.

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