Occupation Actor Model Name Jonathan Dixon | Years active 2007 - present Role Television actor | |
 | ||
Born 10 August 1988 (age 35) ( 1988-08-10 ) Leeds, West Yorkshire, England Other names Johnny Dixon (current professional name) Movies Inn Mates, The Hybrid, A Kindness People also search for Billy O\'Brien, Nick Wood, Giles Ripley | ||
Jonathan Dixon (born 10 August 1988 in Pudsey), known professionally as Jonny Dixon, is a British television actor, best known for playing playground bully Matthew "Mooey" Humphries in long-running CBBC show Grange Hill.
He appeared in Manchester-based soap opera Coronation Street as Darryl Morton. He joined the soap in March 2007.
He was a friend of Jack P. Shepherd who plays his on-screen friend David Platt before getting his role on Coronation Street. It was reported on 15 May 2009 that Dixon and co-star Wanda Opalinska would be written out of the soap and would be departing later in the year with it being said that this was due to "natural storyline progression." He last appeared in the episode broadcast on 16 October 2009.
In April 2011 Jonathan achieved a long held ambition of his when he went to Birmingham to film a much anticipated episode of Doctors set to be broadcast on BBC1 in July 2011.
For the last three years, he has taken part in 'Show in a Week' at South Craven School - a musical theatre production which is conceived, choreographed and rehearsed in just three days.