Bradley John Walsh is an English actor, comedian, television presenter, singer, and former professional footballer. He is known for his roles as Danny Baldwin in Coronation Street, as DS Ronnie Brooks in Law & Order: UK, and as Graham O’Brien in Doctor Who. Since 2019, he has starred in Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad, alongside his son Barney Walsh. He helped England win the 2006 edition of Soccer Aid as a player and the 2012 and 2016 editions as a coach.
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Bradley John Walsh is an English actor, comedian, television presenter, singer, and former professional footballer. He is known for his roles as Danny Baldwin in Coronation Street, as DS Ronnie Brooks in Law & Order: UK, and as Graham O’Brien in Doctor Who. He has also presented various television game shows for ITV, including Wheel of Fortune and Cash Trapped. Walsh hosted the ITV variety show Tonight at the London Palladium and was a team captain on the sports-themed panel show Play to the Whistle. Since 2019, he has starred in Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad, alongside his son Barney Walsh. In addition to his television career, Walsh often appears in theatre shows, particularly pantomimes. Walsh has released two albums, Chasing Dreams and When You’re Smiling, which both reached the top 15 in the UK Albums Chart. He helped England win the 2006 edition of Soccer Aid as a player and the 2012 and 2016 editions as a coach. Walsh was born in 1960 in Watford, Hertfordshire, to a Scottish mother, Margaret, and her husband Daniel. In late 1978, at the age of 18, Walsh became a professional football player for Brentford although he failed to make the first team and was regularly a member of the reserves.
Walsh’s first acting job was a minor role in the Channel 4 series, Lock, Stock. He also appeared as Dave Dodds in the 2001 Channel 4 TV film Mike Bassett: England Manager. Walsh returned to ITV in 2002, after landing a regular role in British soap opera Night and Day. In October 2007, he appeared in two episodes of Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. In January 2009, Walsh featured in a special edition of Channel 5’s Dangerous Boys based on the book The Day of the Clown. He played a sinister American-sounding clown called Odd Bob, a mysterious European-sounding ringmaster called Elijah Spellman, and the infamous Pied Piper of Hamelin. In December 2006, Walsh was written out of the series The Queen’s Hand at his own request. He was also one-off playbag Bill in the series Burglar in the Queen’s Hand. Walsh also appeared in one episode of The Queen”s Hand in October 2007.
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