Trevor Cooper
{{Short description|English actor (born 1953)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2017}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|09|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
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| occupation = Actor
| alma_mater = Drama Studio London
| yearsactive = 1980–present
| relatives = Daisy May Cooper (niece)
Charlie Cooper (nephew)
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Trevor Cooper (born 21 September 1953) is an English actor.[http://www.locatetv.com/person/trevor-cooper/3239 Trevor Cooper – Movies and TV | LocateTV]
Background
Born 21 September 1953,{{cite tweet|last=Winwood|first=Julia|user=actonamelie|number=1440365548555026433|date=21 September 2021|title=Happy birthday, Trevor!|retweet=Trevor Cooper @hatmangooner|access-date=21 May 2022|link=https://twitter.com/actonamelie/status/1440365548555026433}} Cooper studied law at Kingston Polytechnic and graduated with a master's degree in law from the University of Warwick. He taught for two years at London South Bank University before becoming an actor training at the Drama Studio London.{{Cite web|title=Exclusive Interview: Trevor Cooper • Doctor Who News • WhovianNet|url=http://news.whoviannet.co.uk/2014/09/exclusive-interview-trevor-cooper/|access-date=2020-04-21}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.kaldorcity.com/people/tcinterview.html|title=Rough Justice: Interview with Trevor Cooper|website=www.kaldorcity.com}} He is known for portraying, in his words, "bald fat blokes".
Career
Having won a Carleton Hobbs Award in 1979,{{cite web|title=Who's won Radio Drama's acting prizes since 1953?|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/soundstart/roll.shtml|accessdate=18 September 2014}} Cooper had his first lead role in a 1980 radio production of The File on Leo Kaplan.{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|title=Personal Choice|date=12 January 1980|page=9}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/f/fi/file_on_leo_kaplan__the.html |title=The File On Leo Kaplan |website=radiolistings.co.uk |access-date=13 January 2017 |archive-date=10 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110004930/http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/f/fi/file_on_leo_kaplan__the.html |url-status=dead }} Cooper appeared in the films The Whistle Blower and The Ruby in the Smoke. He is also known for playing Colin Devis on the television series Star Cops and Gurth in the 1997 BBC dramatisation of Ivanhoe. His other television roles include appearances in A Very Peculiar Practice, The Singing Detective, The Woman in Black, Our Friends in the North, Outnumbered, Ballot Monkeys, Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks,The Doctor Who Programme Guide By Jean-Marc, Randy Lofficier {{ISBN|0-595-27618-0}} p. 210 Doctors, Kingdom, Trial & Retribution, The Bill, Spooks, Vikings , Casualty, Wizards vs Aliens, The Wrong Mans and Inside No. 9 ("The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge"). He has also worked on the Kaldor City series of audio plays, and had a part in Chimerica at the Harold Pinter Theatre 2013.
In 2014, Cooper portrayed Simeon Swann in the third series of the CBBC science-fantasy series Wizards vs Aliens. Cooper starred alongside his brother Paul in the 2017 BBC Three mockumentary, This Country. The show also starred, and was written and created by, his niece and nephew, Daisy May and Charlie Cooper.{{cite news|url=http://www.thecotswoldsgentleman.co.uk/behind-the-kurtan.html|title=Behind the Kurtan|work=The Cotswolds Gentleman|date=2 March 2017|accessdate=3 March 2017}}{{cite news|title=Country cousins|work=Chortle|first=Jay|last=Richardson|date=25 January 2017|url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2017/01/25/26712/country_cousins|accessdate=3 March 2017}}
From 2017 to 2020, Cooper portrayed Sergeant Aubrey Woolf in the BBC One drama, Call the Midwife, leaving after the second episode in Series 9.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178430/ {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}} From 2018 Cooper has revisited the character of ISPF Inspector Colin Devis in the continuing Star Cops audio dramas from Big Finish Productions.
==References==
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0178430|Trevor Cooper}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20171107021702/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba204d47f Trevor Cooper] at BFI
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Category:English male film actors
Category:Male actors from London
Category:Alumni of Kingston University
Category:Alumni of the University of Warwick
Category:Alumni of the Drama Studio London
Category:Academics of London South Bank University
Category:English male television actors
Category:English male voice actors