Occupation Actor Name Adam Harvey | Role Actor | |
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Movies and TV shows Where the Heart Is, Girls in Love, Night and Day, The Descent Part 2, My Brother Tom Similar People Georgia Moffett, Jon Harris, Ashley Pharoah, Vicky Featherstone, Andy Hamilton | ||
Zodiac Sign Cancer Nationality British Height 1.78 m | ||
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Adam Paul Harvey (born 7 July 1984) is an English actor.
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Early life
Harvey was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the son of Andrea (née Foster) and Gordon Harvey, an engineer. He attended Sir William Ramsay School in Hazlemere, High Wycombe and in 1998 enrolled at JPA School of Drama and Dance, after which he began auditioning.
Career
His first professional role was in a commercial advertising the Nintendo 64. His first regular television role was in ITV1's short-lived soap opera Night and Day, in which he played Tom Brake. Other regular roles were Ralph Henshaw in Bedtime in 2002 (alongside Alun Armstrong), Russell in CITV's Girls in Love (2003–05) and Nathan Boothe in four series of ITV1's Where the Heart Is. He played the lead in BBC One's docudrama Dealing with Disasters (about London Nail Bomber David Copeland).
He has acted in four films, My Brother Tom (2001), Son of Rambow (2007), the short 96 Ways to Say I Love You (2014) and Mad to Be Normal (formerly entitled Metanoia, 2017), a biopic of R. D. Laing, alongside a cast including David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, Gabriel Byrne, David Bamber and Michael Gambon. He is due to appear in You, Me and Him, a comedy, and End of Term, a horror film, in 2017.
His most recent television roles to date are The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, on 23rd November 2013 and episodes of Doctors and Casualty in November 2014.
Personal life
He had a relationship with his Where the Heart Is co-star Georgia Moffett, who played his on-screen girlfriend, Alice Harding. They ended the relationship in 2006, but remain good friends.
He has a sister and three half-brothers, and is, as are they, first cousin, once removed of Peter Darvill-Evans.
He is related on his father's side to Edward Stone, an eighteenth-century clergyman who discovered the active ingredient in Aspirin, as well as Irene Kathleen Stiles (1901-1964), who wrote romantic fiction under the pen name of Romilly Brent.