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1966-02-22 · Deal, Kent, England, UK · Male

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Neil Robert Stuke ( STOOK;) is an English actor best known for his role of Matthew in the TV sitcom Game On and for playing Billy Lamb in the BBC legal drama Silk.

Career

Stuke played Matthew in the second and third series of Game On, replacing Ben Chaplin. He also played the role of senior clerk Billy Lamb in the BBC television series Silk. His television career also includes Between the Lines, Trust, Reggie Perrin, At Home with the Braithwaites, Monday Monday, Office Gossip, Bedtime, A Touch of Frost, The Catherine Tate Show and playing an alcoholic footballer/policeman in a 1997 episode of Pie in the Sky.

He played Hal in a 1997 Radio 3 production of Loot by Orton, repeated in 2017.

In 2006, he guest-starred in The Bill; his character (James Tennant) was involved in the storyline of missing child Amy Tennant.

In January 2020, he appeared in an episode of Doctor Who, alongside Jodie Whittaker, Jo Martin, and The Judoon.

Personal life

In August 2014, Stuke was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.

Neil Stuke at BBC Online

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