Gregory Piper (actor)

{{short description|UK actor}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Gregory Piper

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|03|15}}

| birth_place = United Kingdom

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 2012–present

| television = Line of Duty

}}

Gregory Tyler Piper (born 15 March 1998{{Cite web|date=15 March 2016|title=18th birthday Instagram post|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BC_WUITwyb9/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/gregssspiper/1206781365492852477 |archive-date=2021-12-26 |url-access=registration|url-status=live|access-date=24 May 2021|website=Instagram}}{{cbignore}}) is a British actor best known for playing Ryan Pilkington in Line of Duty.

==Line of Duty==

He was 13 years old when he first appeared in Line of Duty series 1 playing young criminal Ryan Pilkington.

Following complaints from some viewers, Ofcom found that the BBC had made a "serious lapse" in its duty of care for Piper by "failing to ensure that a child welfare counsellor or psychologist had considered the appropriateness or potential emotional risk to the boy of his involvement", given the violent nature of some of his scenes.{{cite news |last1=Sherwin |first1=Adam |title=Failure in Line of Duty: BBC guilty of 'serious lapse' in care of |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/failure-line-duty-bbc-guilty-serious-lapse-care-13-year-old-actor-8422599.html |access-date=29 April 2021 |work=The Independent |date=17 December 2012 |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Lillington |first1=Catherine |title=BBC failed to care for Dudley child actor in violent Line Of Duty scene |url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/bbc-failed-to-care-for-dudley-child-393138 |website=BirminghamLive |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 April 2021 |language=en |date=30 December 2012}}

Piper reprised the role as a more prominent antagonist in series 5,{{Cite web|last=Parkes|first=Thomas|title=Dudley actor returns to action in Line of Duty|url=https://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/2019/04/22/dudley-actor-returns-to-line-of-duty/|access-date=2021-04-28|website=www.expressandstar.com|date=22 April 2019 |language=en}} initially as a member of the Organised Crime Group (OCG) and latterly as a Central Police cadet. In series 6, Pilkington appears more extensively as an officer in the murder investigation team secretly working as a mole for the organised crime syndicate.{{cite news |last1=Bley Griffiths |first1=Eleanor |title=Who is Ryan Pilkington in Line of Duty? Here's where we've seen him before |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/line-of-duty-series-5-who-is-ocg-member-ryan-criminal-has-been-in-bbc-show-since-series-1/ |access-date=28 April 2021 |work=Radio Times |language=en}}