Dean Andrews is an English actor.
He is known for his role as DS Ray Carling in the BBC drama series Life on Mars.
He continued the role in the sequel series, Ashes to Ashes, until 2010.
As of April 2019, he appeared as Will Taylor on ITV soap opera Emmerdale.
Andrews left the show on 26 December 2024 when his character Will died of a heart attack.
Born in 1963 in Rotherham, Andrews went to Sitwell Junior School on Grange Road and Oakwood Comprehensive School on Moorgate Road.
He went to school with Top Gear presenter James May.
Dean Andrews started off as a mainstay of cruise ships as a talented entertainer and singer.
He was discovered by film director Ken Loach, who was looking for people from Yorkshire to appear in the 2001 film, The Navigators.
He then went on to play Barry Shiel in the Channel 4 drama Buried, which won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Series in 2004.
That year, he also had a small role, as Neil, in the Channel 4 series No Angels.
In 2005, Andrews appeared in one episode of the ITV drama Wire in the Blood.
The following year, he appeared in another BBC drama, Life On Mars, as DS Ray Carling.
He then had roles in two BBC dramas, True Dare Kiss and The Street, in 2007.
Andrews again played DC Carling in Ashes to Ashes, a 2008 spin-off series of Life on Mars.
During the same year, he recorded voiceovers for Currys television advertisements.
He had a guest role in 2010 on the BBC One series Waterloo Road.
In 2011, Andrews appeared in: the BBC drama The Body Farm as Peter Collins; the BBC Two television film United, about the Manchester United "Busby Babes" team and the 1958 Munich air disaster; ITV's supernatural drama series Marchlands, playing one of the lead roles; and the five-part BBC One series The Case, in which he played the lead role as a man accused of murdering his terminally ill girlfriend.
In November 2012, Andrews appeared in all four series of the BBC drama Last Tango in Halifax as Robert "Robbie" Greenwood.
The following year, he portrayed Pete Lewis in the BBC show Being Eileen.
Andrews played local hotel and barman Tom Asher in a 2015 episode of the popular series Midsomer Murders on ITV.
In 2019, the actor joined the cast of ITV soap opera Emmerdale.
He left the soap on 26 December 2024 when his character Will died of a heart attack.
He has stated that he was not told about the character's demise.
He narrated the Channel 5 documentary series, Our Great Yorkshire Life, in 2022.
He also narrates the UK TV show Casualty 24/7 which centres on Barnsley Hospital.
England, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder committed on a train six years ago, unable to imagine the disproportionate consequences that such a selfless act will cause.
After her father dies, a young woman returns to her Yorkshire village for the first time in 15 years to claim the family farm she believes is hers.
An aspiring teen detective stumbles into her first real case, when investigating the mysterious new family in her neighborhood.
United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand interviews with the survivors and their families to tell the inspirational story of a team and community overcoming terrible tragedy.
In 1999, a British mine clearance engineer working for the Taliban government in Afghanistan must flee the country when he becomes embroiled in a deadly game of intrigue and betrayal.
The documentary about the making of the critically acclaimed British TV sequel series to the show Life on Mars, featuring behind the scenes interviews with the cast and crew, ahead of the final season.
A documentary about the conclusion of Life on Mars
A tense two-part psychological thriller about a troubled, homeless girl who gets caught up in the hunt for a violent killer.
This movie is a contemporary UK vision of an age old story as epitomised by Shakespeare, but with two at odds relationships adding a layer of complication. The situation, a volatile northern English town, typically Bradford, and characters, one Islamic Pakistani family and two prejudiced English families loosely representing the Capulets and the Montagues.
In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.
A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Michelle is married to Gary, a young miner who goes on strike as soon as the dispute between the Thatcher government and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) begins. Meanwhile, her sister Linda's husband Paul is a local policeman. Paul becomes more and more voluble in his opposition to the strike, while Linda looks around her and witnesses the women of her community suddenly find a voice and independence. The scene is set for political and personal conflicts which would change their lives forever.
In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland Infrastructure, it is clear that there will be the inevitable winners and losers as downsizing and efficiency become the new buzzwords.