Steven Blakeley

Steven Blakeley born 26 February 1982 is a British actor He is best known for his role as PC Geoff Younger in the British police drama Heartbeat guest roles in various other television programmes and multiple theatre roles Steven Blakeley was born in Chesterfield Derbyshire in 1982 and was brought up in the Derbyshire mining town of Bolsover He attended the Bolsover School and was initially interested in pursuing a medical career before turning his attentions to performing Blakeley started his career as a member of the Derby Playhouse Community and Youth Theatre companies before going on to work professionally at Derby Playhouse He trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and at the Athanor Academy in Germany His theatre credits include national tours of Peter Shaffers The Private Ear and The Public Eye Dry Rot and Funny Peculiar Diary of a Nobody at the Royal and Derngate BoeingBoeing Selling the Sizzle Bare Words A Midsummer Nights Dream Peter Pan The Hypochondriac Soap and Cold Turkey As well as appearing in four series of ITVs Heartbeat he has made guest appearances in ITVs Emmerdale Doctors and Holby City the latter two both for the BBC Blakeley has performed in radio plays for the BBC as well as providing narration for animation films and poetry recordings In 2006 he was a nominee in the category of Best Newcomer at the National Television Awards and in 2016 a nominee in the category of Best Supporting Male Performer at the Off West End Awards for his portrayal of Comrade Staggles in J B Priestleys The Roundabout at the Park Theatre London He played the same role when the production transferred to New York in 2017 Blakeley played Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream and Verges in Much Ado About Nothing with the British Shakespeare Company on their 2009 tour of the United Kingdom Dublin Norway and Prague Blakeley has also worked as a writer and theatre director Since 2009 he has appeared in written and directed several pantomimes at the Theatre Royal Windsor playing the pantomime dame in Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Aladdin and Jack and the Beanstalk In 2010 he was acting at Derby Theatre Blakeley appeared in ITVs Coronation Street and the BBCs Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley in 2018 In 2020 he appeared in the All Creatures Great and Small episode Alls Fair as Mr Foyle Blakeley is also now a civil celebrant and funeral director working for AWass in Mansfield