Fraser Stuart Ayres (born 1980) is an English actor, best known for his role as Clint in the BBC comedy series The Smoking Room.
Ayres first joined the youth core at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester[1] and has done other television including Bella and The Boys, Unconditional Love, London's Burning, The Vice and Trail Of Guilt. His stage work brought him Best Actor awards for his performance in The People Next Door and he has also starred in Ramayana, Telling Tales, Four and Bluebird, Workers Writes, Vurt, Sandman, and the world premiere of Philip Ridley's Mercury Fur. His film work includes Revenger's Tragedy, Intimacy, It Was An Accident, Speak Like A Child, Dinner For Two, Rage, and Kevin & Perry Go Large.[2] He played "Ray" in the BBC Three drama pilot West 10 LDN (also known as W10 LDN). In 2007, Ayres appeared in Little Miss Jocelyn and in 2011, he starred in the one off BBC Christmas show, Lapland.[3] In 2015 Ayres appeared as Theo Bainbridge in the ITV series Midsomer Murders episode 17.2 "Murder by Magic".
In 2016, Ayres joined the cast of the Talawa Theatre Company and Royal Exchange Manchester co-production of King Lear.[4]The Daily Telegraph praised "Fraser Ayres’s chillingly sociopathic Edmund, the amoral face of an emerging, modern calculating politics",[5] while '"The Guardian said "Ayres is one of the most dangerously unstable Edmunds of recent times".[6] The Manchester Evening News noted that "Fraser Ayres near re-writes the scale of Edmund's anger towards his illegitimate father the Earl of Gloucester (Philip Whitchurch)".[7]
During 2017 he was cast in the part of Rich Collis, a menacing drug dealer and money launderer, in the long-running ITV continuing drama Coronation Street.
^"Becoming an actor - TheSite.org". Archived from the original on 20 November 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
^The Smoking Room: Cast and character biographies, BBC, 3 June 2004
^"Lapland - Christmas Special". The British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
^"King Lear". Talawa.
^Allfree, Claire (18 May 2016). "Don Warrington's King Lear is a heartbreaking tour de force". The Telegraph.
^"King Lear review – as close to definitive as can be". TheGuardian.com. 7 April 2016.
^"Review: King Lear at the Royal Exchange". 7 April 2016.
Fraser Stuart Ayres (born 1980) is an English actor, best known for his role as Clint in the BBC comedy series The Smoking Room. Ayres first joined the...
The Smoking Room is a British television sitcom written by Brian Dooley, who won a BAFTA for the series in 2005. The first series, consisting of eight...
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Next Door, in which he gave a memorable performance alongside actor FraserAyres' character as his best friend Marco. Akingbola won his first award (TMA...
the ceremonies included such notables as Simon Pegg, Norman Lovett, FraserAyres, Billy West, and Anthony Stewart Head. Initially the Eagle Award itself...
the youth club, Valerie and Elisha meet up with Val's boyfriend Ray (FraserAyres), who offers to help Elisha get her box back - and directs the pair to...
performance as Trevor Nunn's Hamlet), Robert Boulter, Shane Zaza and FraserAyres." The Guardian noted, "Ben Whishaw and Robert Boulter offer tenderness...
bleeding in the back of an ambulance. Guest starring Maggie Lloyd-Williams, FraserAyres and Bradley Goff 558 16 "Silent Night" Diarmuid Lawrence Barbara Machin...
production facilities. Around 1943, Slazenger acquired F. H. Ayres. Founded in 1810 by Edward Ayres, the firm manufactured a range of sporting equipment but...
Education (2 episodes) Mhairi Anderson as Morag Murray; Pupil (1 episode) FraserAyres as Duncan Kilty; Owner of a pole-dancing bar (1 episode) Patrick Baladi...
(1972 to 2006), Vassar College and Boston University. Ayres' biography subjects included Malcolm Fraser, Douglas Mawson, former Australian Chief Justice Sir...
Aston) being stabbed with a glass bottle in The Bistro by Rich Collis (FraserAyres). A vendetta is later started against Robert, and Michelle is convinced...
members reprised their roles. At the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe, he played FraserAyres in double BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne's adaptation of Stuart: A...
History". Ayres Hotels. Retrieved January 21, 2022. 2005 was also the year Janet Ayres, Don Ayres Jr.'s wife, brought her keen eye for design to the Ayres Hotels...
Awards ceremony was held on Saturday, May 10, presented by comedian FraserAyres. The Great Recession hit the 2009 show hard, as only 650 fans attended...
Beaton, Horace Ove, Paulette Randall, Don Warrington, Sharon D Clarke, FraserAyres and David Harewood. Talawa had a home at Bloomsbury's Jeannetta Cochrane...
Watton appeared as "Steward", whilst Caspar Phillipson appeared as Teppo. FraserAyres, Juga Leppajarvi and Andrei Aleen appeared as Brian, Bavval and Hans...
then just south of London, and Ayres lived with the family above the shop. In 1885 fire broke out in the shop, and Ayres rescued three of her nieces from...
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