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Jonny Clarke, (born 6 June 1992) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the character of Bart McQueen in the channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.
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Jonny Clarke's early roles include two small roles on TV, including the award winning Drama "Seeing Red", and playing lead roles in theatre productions of Guys and Dolls and Oliver.
In early 2010, it was announced that Hollyoaks series producer Allan had stepped down from the position of executive producer of Hollyoaks and that Paul Marquess had taken over the role. It was soon revealed that Marquess planned to give Hollyoaks a "shake up", changing the productions team and beginning a cast cull by axing established characters. As part of Marquess reivention he decided to replace the departing character with new ones, and he created the main character of Bart McQueen and cast Jonny Clarke in the role, as part of the "2010 shake-up". First seen on Hollyoaks in August 2010, In September 2011 he was nominated for best Serial Drama Performance in the National Television Awards for his part as "Bart McQueen" in Hollyoaks.
In 2013, he was part of the Hollyoaks cast that received a British Soap Award for most spectacular scene.
In November 2013 it was announced that he was to play the part of "Tipper" in the 2014 UK tour of the highly acclaimed WW1 drama play "Birdsong" based on Sebastian Faulks' book of the same name.
Having given up acting for marketing, in 2016 he was invited to return to Hollyoaks to reprise the role of Bart McQueen. Clarke made his last appearance as Bart on the show on April 14th, 2017