Jeremy Dimmick is a former child actor

Child actor

The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...

 who is currently a tutor and lecturer at St Catherine's College

St Catherine's College, Oxford

St Catherine's College, often called Catz, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its motto is Nova et Vetera...

, Oxford

University of Oxford

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As a child actor, Dimmick played many roles on stage and screen, including work for London

London

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's Royal National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

, the Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...

 and the BBC

BBC

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 TV Shakespeare project. He was taught by Bess Jones and Mollie Hudson at the Studio School of Speech and Drama in Pinner

Pinner

- Climate :Pinner's geographical position on the far western side of North West London makes it the furthest London suburb from any UK coastline. Hence the lower prevalence of moderating maritime influences make Pinner noticeably warmer in the spring and the summer compared to the rest of the capital...

, Middlesex

Middlesex

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. He gave up acting at the age of 17 to concentrate on music and academia, and now researches and teaches medieval English literature

English literature

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. His colleagues in English at St Catherine's College include Bart Van Es

Bart Van Es

Bart Van Es is an academician, tutor and lecturer at St Catherines College, University of Oxford.He is the author of such specialist critical books as Spenser's Forms of History and A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies...

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